Math Teacher Mambo

An AP English teacher passed on this idea from a conference she attended, and I thought it sounded effective and cool and will try it soon. ...

About a week ago I assigned my precalculus students the following homework: teach your parents something about either polar graphing or comp...

In both my calculus classes, I started dreading teaching, because invariably - yap yap yap yap - basically from 1 to 2 boys, but it would af...

At times in the past when I've included a rubric with my projects, I'm amazed that there are students that turn in something that ex...

Once a week we have a 30 minute advisory where we meet with one group of kids and are basically their mom/dad on campus making sure they don...

In the past 2 weeks I got 2 new kids from different states. They're both juniors. One's in my advisory, so I don't really "...

I taught my 2nd 2 "box & whisker" classes today (we're on block schedule), and after some of your comments, I polled my cl...

I planned to teach vectors on Friday, and I must have been super sleepy as I prepared earlier, because when all was said and done, it took l...

As part of my national board certification, for 2 different entries, I have to tape a 15 minute segment of my class and analyze it to within...

Right after the winter break, I finally sat down to see where I was with BC Calculus. I know I was behind from last year for a variety of re...

Students were wacky today. Just goofy and chatty and such. In my 1st period AB Calculus class - chatty chatty chatty. While they were doing ...

I wanted to start my parabola lesson with paper folding to create a parabola. I'd done it before with other classes, and it went well s...

Earlier in this winter January week in Texas with 60 - 70 temperatures, I was staring out my classroom window and remembering one event in ...

I keep forgetting to mention this great resource I found at NCTM one year. If you know of the Pizzazz worksheets, it's sort of like that...

Over winter break we went to Red Rock Canyon: Death Valley: Death Valley: And Zion National Park: Every place was more stunning than the...

The e-mail one father should have sent me: Thank you: -for coming in practically every day at 7:30am and leaving at 5:00pm and tutoring and ...

My favorite note ever was handed to me today by a student before her finals: please allow W_____ to check on her chickens after her math fin...

As usual it just seems to zip by. Last period of the last day of last week - antsy chomping-at-the-bit squirmy students. I jokingly told the...

This past Saturday we had an AP Calculus and Statistics prep session at our school for 7 area high schools. There were 4 simultaneous sessio...

I felt a cold coming on last week at the start of the week, and then, wham, on Thursday and Friday, I guess my tonsils were so swollen, they...