Math Teacher Mambo

Back to school on Monday for the start of PD week. Our fun admin has decided to "flip our lessons" for the week, so that we have m...

Okay, after 17 years of teaching, maybe I WON'T leave everything until the last minute, because I think I've just finished all my 1s...

Sheesh! I just realized that I only have 2 unstructured-ish weeks left of summer. Must. Soak. Up. Fun. I did enjoy doing a crafty thing by...

I recently attended a CS workshop for teachers , and if you live in TX, I highly recommend it for next summer. We learned a variety of thi...

Next year will be the 2nd year in a row I haven't taught geometry, but I had an inkling of an unformed idea for a possible exploratory a...

I just finished a nonfictional Romance Book called "Playing with Math" , edited by Sue VanHattum . It's filled with passion (f...

I would like to move towards SBG for various basic topics in my Digital Electronics class next year. To that end, I will spend this summer c...

And by the way, Viva La End of the School Year. This week our school got together as a team and discussed children and things that may ben...

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...