Math Teacher Mambo

I spent 2 of the class periods after the AP Exam exploring and expanding on a cool problem I found in Smith and Minton. The problem is abou...

Why are all these teenagers acting like ..... teenagers?! How old ARE you anyway? Behave and fly right! Excuse me while I detox: Our pri...

AP Calculus Exam coming up. Let's have the kids create a study calendar! That's the ticket. Because you know, if you fail to plan, y...

A while ago, I used to make graphs for my worksheets in a way that, at the time, seemed reasonable. Hah! and Double Hah! I have seen the lig...

We are now into our Logarithms and E Unit, but before that I wanted to review exponent rules and manipulations for a day. We did that, but I...

I handed this sheet out too late last year, and so didn't promote and stress effectively enough this aspect of their studying: Thi...

In all of my classes this year, for the most part (unless I'm thoroughly bogged down and re-use an old key or such), I am doing the home...

We just finished our spring break and it's back to business as usual (or maybe unusual since we need to remember how to teach/learn aga...

Last year, I broke up notes into 3 different days, and yada yada yada'd my way through things in this unit. I did examples. I put defini...

I don't know if this was effective today. We had a late start day, and the kids are already in SPRING BREAK mode, and everyone was brain...

You would have thought by the scrunched faces and cries of "this is harrrrrrrrrd" a bit ago, that I was slowly poisoning my studen...

My husband is the nice spouse in our relationship. He also gives thoughtful presents whenever we actually do exchange gifts (not a big thing...

I think the other worksheet/class work went okay. It is too soon to tell. I made a day 2 sheet HERE . Also, there have been so many crazy da...

Sigh of sadness. We are now done with our trigonometry unit. But on the plus side, we get to move on to vectors and all sorts of other good ...

I didn't like the treatment I gave to Accumulation Functions and the "2nd part" of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, so I t...

In honor of Valentine's day this Friday, I made a sheet of mixed practice problems in which the students have to decide which law to use...

I was browsing on the math section of Pinterest the other day and found a math activity for elementary school kids.  It was similar to this ...

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...