Math Teacher Mambo

Ms. Cookie conscientiously deletes ALL memory from her calculators: RAM, ROM, RIM, ROOM, and all the excellent APPS on the "school bus ...

We were practicing problems for our TAKS test, and 2 funny incidents came up. First problem: a baseball diamond has 60 feet between the base...

And so starts the crazy TAKS week. I made up a sheet for my 9th graders and printed it on pretty paper and discusses each tip with them. So ...

I went to see " City Island " with my teacher friend today - my teacher friend that still works at my old "crazy" schoo...

I started to "do the math" and it basically seems that barring tests and tests and finals and reviews and other-time-vacuums, I ha...

It's that time of the year in algebra, and I'm processing the right sequence that works for me on how to teach this. I have block cl...

Woot Woot! Our school participated in a 10K today (which I think of as a 10K+ since we walked to and from our bus to the race place), and I ...

As with probably most school districts we have a dress code policy (though at the other school I worked at it didn't prevent me from hav...

In our city once a year about this time, the art of the students from our school district is displayed in a building downtown. Apparently, t...

I don't know if I mentioned this before last year when I taught algebra 1, but it worked so well this year, that I have factoring genius...

Wednesday in algebra 1 we were exploring parabolas on the calculator. We're just getting into our groove with the calculators, and I...

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...