Math Teacher Mambo

Are you "that" school? When people ask you where you work, and you tell them, do they get a knowing look in their eye as if, ...

A long while ago, the students (that happened to be) in my calculus class were all up in a tizzy and stressed out and flustered and frazzled...

It's Here! It's Here! I'm sure the kids are super thrilled to last-minute cram a whole semester's worth of knowledge into th...

This Fall our math department went to the Dallas Regional NCTM conference, and there was a pair of precalculus teachers discussing various p...

I realized I've been remiss on practicing calculator skills with my AP Calculus AB students, so on my flipped lesson video, I walked thr...

* They're still children. * They must be allowed to fail if that's the path they're on, and they're not taking any of the ...

A couple of weeks ago, when I was starting my calculus class, it turned out that about 6 of the students hadn't watched the video. Out o...

I'm playing around with screencast-o-matic that I found out about from an awesome colleague, so I thought I'd make a video on how to...

I'm grading my 6 weeks calculus exam. On one implicit differentiation problem, I stated it as: show that dy/dx = ...... , so the kids HA...

I didn't find a satisfactory way to teach this without yapping at the kids and having them take notes and zone out and such. I knew I wa...

In Calculus we've "learned" the IVTh a bit ago, but as in all things, once we come back to it, students seem to have a hard ti...

That's what I felt like today. In precalculus, like all teachers, I want them to memorize and have a quick recall of (eventually all 6...

I'm going to be teaching methods this week in Java, so I made up the following packet for the task. I'm still feeling my way around...

I just learned of NACLO, and thought I'd share it with people. This is the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, and it...

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...