I did my powerpoint for my presentation… narrated it. Okay, I narrated it twice, since the first time through I forgot to plug the headphones in. I then went upstairs to dive into my animation project. Then downstairs to re-record and listen… and know that yea, I really have to do lots of it again…… [Read more…]
December 24, 2011
Well, not minor to me I’ve struggled with why folks who tout “throw away traditional math instruction! We need more problem-solving!” just don’t make me want to stand up and join them. For that matter, the “we need to bring back real teaching and actually have kids learn the tiems tables!” people don’t either. I… [Read more…]
December 22, 2011
… and it’s 4:30, and I’m done — at least to Pretty Good stage — with adding and subtracting integers, the Big Hard Thing in Chapter ONe. Subtracting positive from negative integers and the real strange one… subtracting negative integers…
December 20, 2011
Whereas, I submitted a proposal to present about using easy-to-get technology for making math lessons (“TLC on the Beach” — adult literacy — and it was accepted, I now have to do that. (I haven’t secured the funding for it yet, so it’s still a maybe, but “lead presenters” don’t have to pay for registration… [Read more…]
October 27, 2011
Seems they *might* have something similar to my “put the numbers together” game — “Build up to 50 Optimally: Students build and identify numbers from static and flashed sets of 1 to 50 objects, using the least number of mouse clicks.” (Then the same for bigger numbers.) They’ve got this one for second grade: Add… [Read more…]
October 19, 2011
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/gamification-game-based-learning-unit-andrew-miller More on making learning into a game — with some of the structural elements, thank you To wit: Collect Quest Goal is to collect/harvest x resources. Puzzle Quest Goal is to solve a problem (might also be called a Code Cracker Quest). Share Quest Goal is to share x resources. Drama Quest Goal is… [Read more…]
October 14, 2011
The International Dyslexia Association devoted an entire _Perspectives_ quarterly to math difficulties. They also have rather generous permissions policies, so as a member, I have contrived to change the PDF to html, open it with SeaMonkey and edit it, and even add my own annotations in green. It is at http://www.resourceroom.net/math/perspectives_dyslexia_mathweb.html I am duly pondering… [Read more…]
October 14, 2011
…that would be http://mindshift.kqed.org; found it via diigo, which is a daily email of links people find, which I haven’t actually been able to figure out. I signed up thinking it was a place to share links, and I guess the sources that show up on those daily lists are sharing, but I don’t know… [Read more…]
August 25, 2011
… tho’ I am thinking of sticking to my site after putting the first handful up. Introducing positive and negative integers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OPANV75W-A Adding same signed integers – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkV-dHnDNAU Adding integers of different signs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT1CT4zr3i4
August 8, 2011
http://www.mathpickle.com/K-12/Videos.html Fun… *if* you already like math, of course. The wormhole is, we are told, a great way to introduce division. I thought, “oh, goody! Will they get some concrete examples of what division means?” No. Not in any way, shape or form. If you’ve got a young genius in there who appreciates finding the… [Read more…]
March 23, 2012
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