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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. September 6, 2016. Day 1 Debate: What Number is Best? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Follow Blog via Email. Exploring ...
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Show, Don’t Tell! | A Mathematician's Musings
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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. October 4, 2016. Show, Don’t Tell! Movement, I was reminded that I can learn a lot from every teacher, and at a small school like mine with a math department of 3, learning from teachers in other departments is almost an expectation. A veteran literature t. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Congrat...
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Pythagorean Triples For The Whole Class! | A Mathematician's Musings
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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. November 30, 2016. November 30, 2016. Pythagorean Triples For The Whole Class! After introducing my geometry students to the Pythagorean Theorem, I introduced them to the idea of Pythagorean Triples. I showed them that the numbers 3, 4, and 5 will work in the equation: 3. Pick two interesting numbers. Make them integers, not too big, but not too small. Did I hear 7 and 19? 2 7 19 = 266. And then the ga...
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Extra Credit? No More! | A Mathematician's Musings
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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. January 9, 2017. January 9, 2017. I used to give out extra credit. Not just at the beginning of my career, but right up through last year. I just thought it’s something that teachers do, even though I knew better, and even though it never really accomplished what I wanted it to accomplish. So finally, this year, I told my students that I was done. Those awesome challenge problems? So what is the result...
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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. September 6, 2016. Day 1 Debate: What Number is Best? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Follow Blog via Email. Lighting t...
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Variable Credit and Standards Based Grading | A Mathematician's Musings
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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. June 22, 2016. Variable Credit and Standards Based Grading. I’ve been soaking up a lot of information about standards-based grading (SBG), and today came across this in my twitter feed:. Quick game setting up growth mindset grading for @Npriester. 8216;s session #cuerockstar. Jedidiah (@MathButler) June 22, 2016. That I’m excited to look at more closely. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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Day 1 Debate: What Number is Best? | A Mathematician's Musings
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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. September 6, 2016. September 6, 2016. Day 1 Debate: What Number is Best? It’s taken some time, but I’ve (mostly) changed to jumping right into something math related. Maybe it’s not a deep subject that we explore, but something to get students talking, and having fun, in class. As well as the Interesting Number Paradox. To give some incentive and inspiration. 2 is the only even prime number. In the end...
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Student Generated Problems Are Best! | A Mathematician's Musings
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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. November 23, 2016. Student Generated Problems Are Best! I tell my students that there are two things that make a challenge problem great:. It is relatively easy to explain to anyone. It is challenging to find a solution (or even figure out if a solution is possible). The answer is yes. I can do it in seven. Henri Picciotto (@hpicciotto) November 15, 2016. That brought out some resolve in me to find a s...
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Show, Don’t Tell! | A Mathematician's Musings
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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. October 4, 2016. Show, Don’t Tell! Movement, I was reminded that I can learn a lot from every teacher, and at a small school like mine with a math department of 3, learning from teachers in other departments is almost an expectation. A veteran literature t. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Congrat...
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Reflections on a Busy Year | A Mathematician's Musings
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A Mathematician's Musings. Thoughts about math, education, and the world through the lens of a teacher. November 17, 2016. Reflections on a Busy Year. Yes, I’ve been busy before, and yes, all teachers are perennially busy, but this year has been different. The summer before the school year, I was asked to teach a second section of Algebra 1. The enrollment at our school increased (yay! But not enough to hire another math teacher (boo! I was much younger, and had much more energy. What do you just cut out?