Math Teacher Mambo

I read about the cool "Red Scarf" project over at Now Norma Knits and watched the video here and am now in the process of making ...

I just returned from visiting friends in Louisiana and East Texas. Both women are active activists in their own way. One is volunteering in ...

Thanks, Tony, for the idea. Just out of curiosity, which ones do you think of as bottles when you look at the pictures? ( ooh, pretty small ...

Last night at dinner I was opening a small spherical glass container of mustard, and my husband and I got into a discussion on whether it wa...

While I was on vacation up north, I read Rafe Esquith's, "Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire" and loved it. Even though he tea...

I live in a different part of town from the HS at which I teach, about 40 minutes away. Though I could do with a shorter commute, I do like ...

If I could get a guarantee that I wouldn't blow up enormously and be unhealthy and start to smell, I think I could pass all my days loll...

I would like to create a website for the next school year that contains my homework assignments and news for each of my classes. I looked at...

I was talking with my "math specialist" friend the other day, and she mentioned that she went to the NCSM meeting in Atlanta and h...

Next year we're going to have a new principal. We don't know who it is yet, and I don't know if they've even hired him/her (...

Next year our school is going to block scheduling. I'm not too happy about it (how will I successfully get the students to practice good...

This past Saturday we had our last full-day National Board Cohort meeting before the summer. Again I learned things about learning and teach...

We just have to go in today to check out and pack up and celebrate our successes. Also, our school is named after a still-living phenomenal ...

Yippee! One more week of school, and it basically is all finals. Love. It. On Friday I gave my AP calculus students an in-class "final...

There's a girl in my precalculus class, a junior, who has spotty attendance, and by that I mean that there have been weeks at a time whe...

* Sometimes students are happy when you change their seats away from their friends. Now they can concentrate on the lesson. * Students don...

Yesterday I had passed out a colored sheet of paper and asked my calculus class what topics they want to review as a class and also any sugg...

Yesterday I gave a mock AP calculus exam for my students while the rest of the school population was taking the state-mandated exit exam (ya...

Last night in tap dance class, as sometimes happens, the teacher started teaching us a combination I swear at a revved up speed. She kept sh...

I'm going along, happily teaching logs and 10^x and e^x and ln(x) and making sure to put in cool examples and practice and descriptions....