Math Teacher Mambo

We're supposed to survey our students at the end of the year to get feedback on how class went. I've seen in the blogging world that...

Well, the kids are starting to come in to take their "test" of the dialog I mentioned a few posts ago. They're doing that AND ...

I can't believe finals start this week for our freshmen. Let's see, so far this semester they've had the LTF tests (Laying the F...

Every year without fail one or 20 students will ask me what kind of music I listen to. I'm always stuck for an answer because I like a t...

I'm having fun looking up all these crazy facts to use for my review sheets. It gives the kids maybe a wee bit more motivation to actual...

There's no better way to spend your Sunday than getting finals and final reviews and final review study ideas written at the last minute...

I am a lucky teacher. There is such a gi-normous difference between my teaching experience last year at my old school and my time this year ...

I don't know how your school year is ending up, but at our school it's CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY. Practically every day the schedule is alte...

I teach 3 different classes of algebra 1 preAP. My poor 1st class gets all my mistakes and things I test out. My 2nd class gets the refineme...

We're on the "tangents to circles" section in geometry, and I'd assigned a standard problem of "the satellite is ____...

I had really good luck with this sheet when we were practicing graphing parabolas today. I apparently haven't been doing enough graphin...

I was reading this post the other day, and flashed back to my 7th and 8th grade German class where we had to memorize dialogs and play both...

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...