Math Teacher Mambo

Yeesh, at this rate, school will be out in July or something. We had sleety drippy cold 27F weather this morning, and it started out as a ...

I'm mulling over recent events and trying to decide how to handle this next year if it comes up again.  Background story. At our schoo...

A while ago I mentioned that I wanted to get the students to create some more realistic related rates scenarios for calculus. I made up a sh...

Last year or so I saw our AP English teacher had pictures (with AP Exam score) up of previous kids who had passed the AP exam. I thought it ...

Okay little Calculus Kidlets, maybe THIS will settle things in your mind. After reading my end-of-semester surveys, too many students were...

Our administration reminds us every semester that every class must give a survey to every student and then share the responses with our depa...

Happy New Year! Happy New Calculus Activity.  I'm not 100% (okay, even 60%) sure my students fully grasp the challenging topic of how ...

I could be grading finals, but ... phawwwww, maybe I'll blog instead. You're supposed to take brain breaks, right? RIGHT?!?! The G...

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 _...