Math Teacher Mambo

I was reading my "O" magazine this morning on the treadmill, and an article by Sarah Beauchamp struck a nerve (can that happen in ...

When my students came back from break, I knew they would start back on that cycle of school/lack of sleep/stress. I made one of my first ass...

I recently realized that it's almost that time again in Geometry: TRIG. And with trigonometry comes shadow problems .... and by problems...

We started our Special Quadrilaterals Unit the other day, and parallelograms were our opening act. Last fall, I found large, 250 straw, $1 e...

And so it ends ... sleeping enough ... lounging around and reading books ... doing puzzles .... thinking about teaching and what to change/f...

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....