Math Teacher Mambo

I know some of our math teachers at the high school level (mostly for algebra 1) are urged to do what they can to make sure a student passes...

I'm loving teaching (a 1 year course of ) Algebra 1 for the first time. It's fun to be the first person to show the kids all the stu...

In precalculus we recently learned how to solve triangles. This involved such equations as sin 20 = 5/x, or tan 35 = x/7, or cos (theta) = 6...

I've had former students come back to visit lately and they talked about the expectations of their college professors. One student who...

What is it with high school boys, the insides of their noses, and their index fingers? How fast does a teacher shudder at night when they se...

This Saturday my husband and I went to "the fields" to watch our school's rocket science class students launch their first-att...

Every year as I teach piecewise functions in precalculus, there are students who get it and can successfully graph and understand them, but ...

I went to another workshop this Thursday, and the algebra 1 information was very useful. What was NOT useful was the handful of people sitti...

We are being judged and evaluated all the time, and we may not realize it. In fact sometimes we may think we're getting away with things...

During the 2nd week of school I had to get a sub for Friday to attend a 2-day math workshop. Oh my, whine, whine, whine: too early in the sc...

I decided to add 2 new links to my homework website for games since these are ones I love love love . The first is ABC pureisu . Basically ...

I gave the following quiz today in Algebra 1, and I've had "Scribd" on my radar for some time, and then I saw it used on the ...

I have passionate feelings for this resource and turn to it whenever I need great ways to ask questions or great real-life examples. I got ...

A while back I was first introduced to Wikki Stix at a calculus workshop where the presenter showed how she taught slope fields by having la...

I was at a math workshop today, and from a participant I learned a great calculator skill that left me saying, "where have you been all...

Inservice Monday Meeting, meeting, lunch, meeting Where did summer go?

Ackh! In the process of updating my homework website further, I thought I'd add a "games" link that showed some fun thinking/m...

It looks like on 8/25 we're starting right away with 1.5 hour block classes when school starts (as opposed to meeting all classes and ha...

Just last week I went to an aerobatics contest my husband was in. It's small, so EVERYONE is wrangled into volunteering somehow. I got t...

Well, I am glad I started my homework website last year, and I'll continue it this year. I found many benefits: * I made one of the 1st ...