Math Teacher Mambo

My rookie FTC Robotics kids and I keep joking around that next weekend at our first qualifier, we do NOT want to get the "Bless Your He...

I did the Match Making Project again with my Computer Science 1 students this year, and I added a new component that just makes me giggle. ...

I happened to be in the car at the right time a while ago, and heard an interview with Aisha Tyler. I don't remember if this was the int...

This year I am coaching an FTC Robotics team for the first time (for me and our school). Here are some of my students at our first scri...

The joys of students scrambling to take care of business on the LAST minute of the LAST day of the LAST week of the grading term. What's...

Just a reminder to myself and others about the various EXTRA things kids may be going through in addition to doing/not-doing my math homewor...

Year Six of teaching this pickle of a topic in Calculus. I keep changing it up hoping I'll happen upon the magic elixir that will allow ...

Last year I knew I did a subpar job on teaching students how to write algorithms to prep their code. How do I know? Thanks for asking. I kno...

I make a lot of my own materials, and though I check things, I am human and make mistakes on keys and answer banks and such. Now I'm not...

I'm trying to incorporate more AP Calculus multiple choice style questions throughout the year this year. I've scanned for various r...

We just finished learning how to solve all sorts of basic trig equations (cos ___ = #, cos # = ____). We'll get to equations soon, but w...

I came up with a memory tool that I hope will help the kids remember which process to use when solving/evaluating on the calculator: csc _...

For the past few years, I knew which semester the students were taking P.E. For several months, they would waddle slowly into class and groa...

I'm trying something new this year both in AP Calculus and in Precalculus when the students go over their homework, and I think it's...

Apparently, for now, there are only 24 letters that are "safe" in the alphabet as it is used in a high school setting. I used to t...

Today my precalculus students were starting their journey of being able to quickly visualize the "special triangle" standard angle...

I had this idea to use string, masking tape, and dry erase markers so the students could explore reference triangles for the first time. I h...

Oy! I've kept my thoughts to myself, but I've been conflicted EVERY TIME I "hear" this term come up in various posts and t...

Since I was testing in another class the other day and was BORED from not chatting with kids and teaching, I had some time to prepare more t...

This year I have a stacked class of CS1 (11 kids) and CS3 (4 kids) students. In CS1 I did the same first assignment as I did last year (a pa...