Math Teacher Mambo

My 2-week training is over, and now all that's left to do is practice, practice, practice and map out what I'll teach when. It was p...

Dear Webcam, I love you. Today we started a "reverse engineering" project (don't ask), and you came through for me by easily a...

I'm currently at an engineering teaching workshop (ooh, math teacher teaching engineering) with many other teachers from all sorts of di...

On Saturday I went to a free workshop about teaching engineering. It was pretty cool. We got to experiment on how to create "penguin ho...

This is an activity I did with my calculus students post AP exam. We had talked about center of mass, and we calculated it with integrals in...

You know how you go around all the time interacting with a set of people, and you have nice opinions of them in some sense but you never voi...

All year in calculus I told the kids that if they signed up for and took the AP Exam, and if the proctor mentioned that they worked hard and...

Technically I have 4 school days left with children. I teach 5 of 6 classes that have seniors in them, and since seniors are having some fin...

Raowr! It's really quite shocking that students would rather text with their friends or chit chat or stare of into space lately than lea...

After the AP Calculus exam every year (of the 4 I've taught it), I've done different things. The first year I did a volumes of cross...

My teacher friend was having her advisory class address envelopes to their parents the other week to send out invitations to an acadamy picn...

I went to NCTM in Washington D.C. last week and learned and bought some useful things. One talk I went to was about how to incorporate web t...

Whew! TAKS is over, and today we resumed our regularly scheduled program of classes. I taught the basics of sequences and series in my preca...

Whew! It's TAKS week in TEXAS high schools. Four days of altered schedules and proctoring not-your-kids and not being able to teach ...

Some of my precalculus students were staying after school to (gasp) study for a test coming up in a couple of days (new behavior). Anyway, t...

Since it's the end of the 6 weeks, shockingly a hoard of students are now just realizing they better get their act in gear and turn in l...

Two funny incidents happened within the last week. In one class I was giving a polynomial test, and allotted an hour. Some kids were done ea...

My algebra 1 preAP class started out horribly 2 days ago. It's the first period of the day, and as I'm herding kids in, I notice one...

Here is a lesson I love because of graphing calculators. My goals for my students were to be able to look at a graph of a polynomial and kno...

On my broken record mode ( you know, those things that music used to come out of and were bigger than 12" diameter ? ): I'm loving ...