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Over at this site I found cool information about tonight's solar eclipse. There was also a NASA video ... Goal: do more planetary ...

Today in discussing Surface Area and Volume of 3D figures, I found out why textbooks choose to flatten out a cylinder in this way: as opp...

In Computer Programming we learned something about various data structures, two being "stacks" and "queues". Stacks ca...

Only 3 weeks and 2 extra days of teaching this year. Oy! As always when I come to this part of the year, I shake my head at how fast it went...

The more this year goes on, the more I wonder about what I don't know about students' misunderstandings. My geometry students were p...

I don't know why I'm surprised. I knew that from teaching calculus a long time ago, that it always seemed to be the pesky algebra th...

I'm at that (one of many) fun part of precalculus where we talk about limits. We do a day on finding limits graphically. I have them cho...

Totally off topic, but one of my latest obsessions: the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. I like to bake, and I like home-baked goodies ...

This year provides another first for me. I'm on the "interviewer" side of conducting interviews for possible openings next yea...

On Saturday we went to see a show by this company (amazing tap dancing) and here's some footage from a past show . And as I was sitting...

This week had cr*ppy written all over it. So I'm just going to detox and purge the "bad" stuff: * Tired from too little sleep....

In precalculus we finished our unit on logarithms by seeing what/why/how log graph paper is used. I showed them the crazy-uneven-looking pap...

We finally got to the cool section in geometry where the students FINALLY can figure out what those crazy "sin" "cos" an...

We just finished our unit on similar triangles, and as par for the course, there were the typical shadow problems. I know from past experien...

In geometry we are learning the special right triangles, and I wanted to give the students time to come up with memory tools for remembering...

I shuffled around my precalculus curriculum (was eager to get to intense trigonometry in the fall) and am JUST almost through logs and ln an...

Who says children aren't ready for the more Grimm of the Grimm Fairy Tales? Today I introduced the special right triangles, but I wanted...

That was the title of today's notes in precalculus in which we were to delve into a revisiting of logarithms. I know, it's REALLY ...

It seems I've come across the following sentiment a ton lately: balancing school life and nonschool life in order to not burn out and to...

As I was leaving school on Friday, a student wanted to use my phone and then hang out in the room while she waited for her ride. We chatted ...