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… that’s me, at the bit… still a couple students here, really focused on finishing papers, so recording a math lesson isn’t an option. On the lunch laps, I contrived “houses” for the Aunt James’ Academy. The one would be the “home for battered algebra students” where “math shouldn’t hurt,” and will include stuff […]
May 16, 2013
I went back (while working up my d.fellowship application) and reviewed how the Common Core suggests presenting fractions. Instead straight out “this much of the pie,” it proposes starting with “units” so that students are counting complete things since, after all, that’s what their brains are going to do with it. So, 3/5 is […]
May 15, 2013
Note to self: The LiveScribe pen is probably a really good venue for lessons I want to eventually make online. It would have come in handy this a.m. A co-worker’s daughter had been in tears the night before, working through problems with factors and multiples. You see, contrary to […]
May 14, 2013
Just sat in on a webinar on “gamifying” education. The games are “like assignments, only more granular.” Okay, I totally love the fundamental idea of ‘non-reductive evaluations’ – keeping track of the progress you’re making, not just “here’s what you got wrong.” And I also appreciate the idea that with a game, “failure” just […]
May 14, 2013
Second day of finals here… my application to Stanford’s d.fellowship was in with hours to spare, so it’s time to get back to evaluating lessons and making my own. The math literacy folks are figuring out how to convince the teacher that their situation is a “quadratic equation” and I’m lookin’ for the tea bags
May 7, 2013
“Amid a national push to lift high-school standards in the U.S., a new study recommends a different approach for students who go on to community college, one that emphasizes basic subjects to provide them with only the skills they would need to succeed in their future careers.” That’s the opening of New Course Recommended for […]
May 3, 2013
<procrastinating ramble> Not sure whether it’s made my blogs or not, but we’re gathering resources to get ready to blaze a trail and (re-)design our “Transitions” course this summer (to teach it for real in the fall). The plan: Build procedural skills on solid conceptual foundations — oh, yea, assess the conceptual foundations, and we’ve […]
May 17, 2013
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