Math Teacher Mambo

This past semester, I did an online course related to this ( link ): and I learned things I will use in my math classes. Of course I wai...

Things I am excited about for this summer: 1. Getting enough sleep. 2. Continuing with the Kayla Itsines ( here ) exercise program. I st...

If I were in Harry Potter World, I would expand time between when I teach Volumes of Revolution and the AP Exam. This way, I could do a hand...

As part of my year-end activities, I made this Mystery Grid Puzzle. I figured it was a way for my students to be careful, be observant, and ...

My CS1 class is finishing up their original Greenfoot games, so I had them make advertising flyers to "sell their game". They had ...

Whew! That's done. We celebrated Cinco de Mayo by having an AP Calculus AB exam. Aye yai yai yai! After the exam it's a mix of atten...

We are done with our limits unit, and I made some changes (thanks Meg Craig!). Our summary day was today with a mix of everything. Here is t...

If you teach calculus, there is a newish private group on facebook for us. The name is AP Calc Teachers AB/BC , and I'm sure you can nav...

Last unit of AP Calculus AB .... big (temporary) sigh of relief. I changed up how I am teaching it this year. I do a flipped class, but even...

We are winding down in AP Calculus AB. In our last (flipped) class, the students were practicing area between 2 curves, and I had them do so...

We had time for a mixed review day in Precalculus. ... As I type that, I wonder why it always seems rushed to teach this class. Last year, m...

I made up a new worksheet for the students to practice straight line motion problems combined with their accumulation function knowledge fo...

I turned 50 years old a month ago today. Probably like most people who get here, I'm still a little dazed that this number is associated...

Even with what I thought were great manipulative tools (patty paper to be used to help teach inverse trig graphs), there were students that ...

Dear Teenager Cashiering at the Grocery Store, First of all, congratulations on being responsible and earning some money while you are go...

Have you ever watched a performance, music / dance / theater / gymnastics , as a non-expert in that area and just been impressed with what w...

Teaching Inverse Trig Functions, Take 10 (??). Okay, patty paper to the rescue*. I'm hoping THIS year, since we are taking time to const...

I periodically like to put clip art on the worksheets I create for my students. I've never thought much about it, I just Google Search f...

I remember when I taught in NJ years and years ago, we had 41 minute classes and saw every one of our 8 classes every day*. Now that I have ...

Hello vacation. I have a love/hate thing going with time off.  * Love the 9 hours of sleep each night.  * Hate not having so many people t...