Math Teacher Mambo

What does a math teacher think about on the plane while she's traveling to see her dad in another state? Teaching, of course. I'm st...

I started taking Lindy Hop Lessons a couple of months ago because I saw some people doing it , and it looked SO fun. The nice thing about it...

I'm not the best of housekeepers, and that's an understatement. Sure, the dishes are done and laundry done and trash put away, but t...

I talked with a math teacher friend today about how she teaches adding and subtracting integers to her 7th graders. She mentioned the follow...

Probably like most teachers/schools, our grades are weighted for the grading period. Last year it was 45% homework and 55% tests/quizzes. St...

I've been thinking more lately about how I "do" homework. I'm still in the camp that wants to assign a completion grade on...

As I still have momentum from the previous year, I thought I'd get some ideas down for next year. I believe I'm teaching 2 levels of...

Someone requested a tutorial for making a usable graph for your worksheets, so here it is. (okay, the person nicely agreed to a tutorial aft...

I gave the following 2 sets of questions on my algebra 1 final (click on it to enlarge): For 13 & 14, they were given a line and were to...

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...