Math Teacher Mambo

I had about 20 minutes after a test today, and RIGHT before the test, a high school student in precalculus was confused about how to divide ...

Something needed to change. I could no longer stand the travesty that was my ceiling. How could we spend day in and day out under such a b...

I have never liked my unit as a whole for the Intermediate Value Theorem in Calculus. My explanations, I like, my homework and the time the ...

I'm on my quest to try different things for the Trigonometric Identities unit. They explored last class, and today I wanted to get them ...

We have started our unit on Trigonometric Identities in precalculus. Every year is going to be THE YEAR where it all come...

Students are learning to solder in Digital Electronics. I let them tinker and figure a lot out for themselves. I do give them tips, and we...

Last year our school got "schooled" on Kagan strategies, and one I liked was "Quiz Quiz Trade". I used that today for ab...

It's that time again: Back to School Night. Our school is following the "no schedule" rule, so that after a brief overview in ...

I found a "study sheet" of one of my Calculus students practicing for their trig quizzes, and I totally stole her idea for today...

Breaking News: Kids struggle with fractions! Alert: Kids can't describe how 3 π /4 relates to π. News at 11: Radians? What new tort...

No matter how clearly I think I explain that f(x + Δx) ≠ f(x) + f(Δx), I still have the "believers". Yesterday, I drew a graph t...

Aaaaaannnd we're back into the swing of things at school: frenzied hamster on the wheel looking over her shoulder while madly scrambling...

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...