Math Teacher Mambo

I have used transparencies in the past for what I FINALLY figured out today. Sheesh! I feel slow, but at least I now have a new tool to use....

I'd noticed lately (again!) that I'm treating my students like math robots. They are there to do my math homework. If I see them in ...

I'm totally sure this has been done to death, but I liked how this project turned out. We are doing a unit on transformations, and for t...

I just got back from the Dallas Regional NCTM conference. Amazing. I've only ever been to the national one in April, but we haven't ...

I was finishing up my flipped lesson taping tonight when I saw the web cam and decided to take a picture to send to my husband who's on ...

I was helping a calculus student with her test corrections, and we were chatting while she was writing things up. She said 2 interesting thi...

I find it fascinating that once you ask a student to find the equation of the tangent line to a trig-type function (say y = x*sin x) at x = ...

Okay, this 5 different preps thing and the club after school and the InvenTeam meetings and the NHS co-advising and the other start-of-the-y...

I'm still finding my sea legs on how to best teach the material. I want the students to learn by doing, so we explore a ton. I haven...

I'm still trying to get my groove going for my AP Calculus flipped class. I love it because the kids actually have time and energy now t...

* In Digital Electronics, we're working with resistors. In case you don't know, they're color coded with these TEENY TINY bands ...

I guess I should periodically look at my old files . I know what I'm doing tomorrow in calculus (after a brief intro for "easier...

I'm not so good at assigning group projects (mostly because I side with student opinions of them and mostly because I'm a control fr...

School is in its third week, and now the lack of sleep is taking its toll (that bell .... it's tolling for me). Today I left "early...

Love my students. Their first Computer Science project was due this past Friday, and here are samples of the things they did after just 2 we...

Can anyone say "whirlwind week"? If you're a teacher I bet you can. I guess it's getting cliche to be all, "oh no, I...

In my harried existence as a teacher at the start of the school year, I don't have all my "routines" in perfect place yet. For...

Well, I dove in from day 1 and started flipping my lessons. Thanks to the nice gentleman that discussed how "exploring" fits in he...

It sure was a fun first day back. We do a big assembly production to start the day, and there are lots of smiles and hugs and confusion and ...

In order to be proactive, I want to generate a list and keep it fresh in my mind of routines of things I do to make the stress palatable. I ...