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So, groping along in codecademy… but I had already witnessed that one of my students plowing through ALEKS had the habit of meticulously copying how each kind of problem was done so she could refer back to it. Happily, I can cut and paste chunks of code to a text document, add […]
March 27, 2013
Note to self: check email on those days off! Friday and Monday college was closed (for spring break/public safety tactical training and Foot Of Snow, respectively, which is down to about two inches today ’cause that late March sun is a heck of a lot stronger than the dead of winter one, which […]
March 25, 2013
hypothesis being tested: that I can and should make the simple stuff automatic before even trying to do anything. So I’m going to get a mess of “points” and “badges” at codecademy. I already got 59 points today (and a special badge for 50 points in the same day)… we’ll see whether I can […]
March 25, 2013
So I got inspired to spend oh, two weeks going back to JavaScript to see about making some simple quizzes. I found nifty stuff with Jquery but I figure I’d have to figure out AJAX too, to do it right… and JSON and JQuery and… … and I can’t get even the most basickest […]
March 21, 2013
… and mostly it’s been One MOre Week of wandering around in cyberspace on tutorials and what have you between helping out the handful of students so industrious that they spent as much as 10 hours in this room plowing through math problems of various kinds. Still lookin’ for traction … but it’s out there, […]
March 19, 2013
an article in the HOuston Chronicle describes debating whether or not Algebra II should be required for high school graduation. It’s the usual… but so far the *most* popular comment is the one that says “I was one of the punks that thought I would never use algebra in the real world. I was wrong.” (21 […]
March 14, 2013
… it’s not a two blogger day at all; I’ve been doin’ surfing and tweeting and the concept of having a story involved in learning keeps coming up… and making the activity itself be reasonably fun. (However, the essay about the fun could be interpreted as meaning that okay, if the activity isn’t fun, […]
March 13, 2013
… so one of the guys in the Math Literacy class has, actually, already completed Math 095 and 098, which it is set up to replace. He has his reasons: this will also exempt him from having to take developmental Geometry, and… he likes to learn stuff. He likes to really understand it. […]
March 12, 2013
…. yes, he knew that going over the class powerpoints and notes *right* after class should help — except that he was lost in class, too. He didn’t know what she meant. Didn’t take long to establish that the issue was the terminology behind the terminology. One slide had “performance” on the y axis and […]
March 12, 2013
A student helped me see a connection to help teaching students how to figure out what i to the big number power is. The procedural “divide by four, use the remainder, and then choose from these four memorized possibilities” is pretty danged taxing on the working memory. The student in question understood about odd […]
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March 28, 2013
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