Math Teacher Mambo

In Texas, football is BIG. Football, football, football. Last Thursday night, our school team had a game against a town rival. Apparently, t...

I've been "teaching" related rates in my BC calculus class for the last 3 days, and I did change it up from last year since I ...

I heard of a great way to get the graph of y = sin x to "stick" in students' heads, so today I tried it out. You're suppos...

I was taken aback this week. Four students have been diligently coming in for tutoring for the past few weeks, and I wanted to let their par...

Whew! I finally got that last riddle, though I'm not sure if I like my husband's hint. I thought and thought and couldn't get it...

I did something in all my classes on Friday that I think I'll do periodically. Everyone got a half sheet (to turn in at the end of the p...

I'm going to have a "word wall" for calculus, and I've never had one before, so it's going up a wee bit at a time. App...

Since I've started teaching older students (ones that I picture closer to college age than middle school age), I've become more relu...

I started to leave this as a comment of my last post, but then it seemed to be getting to long (who's the babbler?). Hi Dan, On an ideal...

School has been in session for 3 weeks now, and I find it interesting how my impressions change as I get to know the kids. For the first wee...

Last year my kids struggled with visualizing the placement of radian angles in standard position. They either had to convert (say 7 pi / 6) ...

Right now after 10 days of school, I finally can place student names with faces (if they're in their seats in their period). Soon, hopef...

My class sizes in order are: 31, 19, 30, 24, 28. In my first class I already have chatters that just WON'T BE QUIET. I've done seat ...

At the start of every year, I have my students write a math autobiography: tell me about yourself, tell me about good/bad experiences with m...

Sheesh, 2 days into school, and my to-do list never seems to be completely accomplished. Oh yea, and then there's the actual prep for ...

Our first week back at work is over, and I think I have a pretty good start on things this year. We have 5 new (out of 20) math teachers, an...

It's practically the last day of "teacher" summer as Tuesday (tomorrow) is our first day of inservice (lasting a week) before ...

Every summer I reread all or parts of each of these books to refresh my aging memory on the kind of teacher I want to be. "How to Talk ...

I'm batting an idea around my head about actually teaching "note using" skills this year in all my classes. It seems to me th...

TMI alert. It hasn't happened lately, but who's to say it won't again. Invariably when I have to get up at night to pee, you kno...