Math Teacher Mambo

Yippee! It's summer (though it's raining outside and doesn't feely summery this Saturday morning). Wednesday was the last ...

How excited am I that tomorrow's the LAST official day of school (for the kiddies). WooHoo! I celebrated by leaving work early (for me) ...

You KNOW it's almost over when you can calmly smile at little "rascals" and quietly think to yourself: pretty soon, I don'...

Okay. One full week of review. I anticipate a lot of off task behavior and giggling and yearbook signing with the occasional look at the rev...

Yesterday for a (small) part of my math classes, I had them do 2 activities that seemed to really engage them and had hilarious results. Fir...

Yet again I was reminded of the fact that if I am not well rested .... in fact completely unrested (to bed by 11 and up by 4), then my patie...

Usually I am in a situation in the classroom, and something will come out of my mouth, and THEN I realize that I probably shouldn't have...

Had dinner with a friend after work today. I looked forward to it all day ... all day of quizzing my little monsters .... all day of semi-re...

Does it always happen this way, and I just forget year to year? I'm actually enjoying my classes again consistently. The kids are more p...

I guess I sometimes do things for me in the classroom (they make me giggle or smile or whatnot), and I don't know that the kids start to...

Sometimes I love when at the last minute I get this "light bulb idea" about how to teach a particular topic. That happened today w...

It was so nice to have a break from the little kiddies yesterday ... I helped chaperone a day trip to a local college for our AVID kids. The...

Remember how I'm making all my algebra 2 PAP (!) students learn how to manipulate fractions (simple adding, subtracting, multiplying, di...

I think I hit upon a way around the crappy thing our admin is trying to do to this one teacher. This teacher and 2 others of us teach "...

TAKS week is finally over, and all in all it went well. I'm tired, but it seemed the kids really put out an effort. But then my crappy ...

What does it say that I am SO counting the days until summer. .... Probably just that I'm a modern teacher and am tired tired tired. Yes...

I thought it would be a pitiful shame if my 9th-12th grade students graduated from H.S. and could not add, subtract, multiply, and divide fr...

I'm tired. We've been ordered from up on high to stop teaching our content now and ONLY prepare for the TAKS test that's to be g...

In the old school I taught at, the kids were tracked to death in basically 5-6 different math levels. We had the (not the appropriate names,...

In my precalculus preAP class, I have about 50% seniors, some of whom find it difficult to actually put in the effort to learn the material,...