Math Teacher Mambo

We started out unit on polyhedrons this week, and are learning first about volumes and surface areas of prisms. I know they've worked ou...

A student came in after school concerned about her algebra 1 grade. This 6 weeks, she was absent for maybe 2 days in one stretch, and then s...

I remember how in the past someone had mentioned to me, "Students like routine. They want to have a sense of comfort of what to expect ...

A key point of chapter 2 of the differentiation book I'm reading is that you can differentiate in one of 3 areas: * content * process * ...

Nine Questions. Blank blank blank blank, scribble times four, blank. Partial credit does not compute. Let me practice writing my name. All o...

I started thinking that is would be convenient to have some blank "joke sheets" ready to make a quick practice assignments for var...

Some things I've come away with on my geometry project: * Even if you don't get around to grading them immediately (say in a week or...

We just finished our unit on inequalities, and my students have a test next class. I'm thinking of putting the following question on it...

We are just finishing up trigonometry and special triangles in geometry and moving on to areas, but as with all skills, they need to revisit...

Holy Cow, my kids are awesome. Out of about 23 students in geometry class, 8 turned in amazing projects, and the rest (barring 2 late assign...

Maybe this will motivate me to actually get through the differentiation book. There are 18 chapters, and I like her writing style and attitu...

I'm apparently a slow learner. I just realized the other day that I'm treating my algebra 1 preAP students like "gifted" k...

I had a major scare yesterday after school during tutoring. My kids had a test the following day, and the homework I assigned was 1/2 odd pr...

So what do you do on your weekend when you are procrastinating doing your work? Well, you play this , which I found out about from her , (wh...

Inspired my Mrs. H and by the cool graph separation of a grid from Mr. K , I designed this geometry project for my kids after we've co...

I love the versatility and color choice and usefulness of sticky notes. Especially for returned homeworks.

Well, all, okay most of the projects have been turned in, and now comes my grading fiesta (ay yi yi yi) which I solemnly do swear NOT to put...

My students are still working on their Line Project, and I'm glad I assigned it because various things have come up that I think are goo...

In algebra 1 we've covered most line topics I think are important: * calculating slope from a graph and from 2 points without a graph * ...