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One of my recurring ones is: keep Resource Room better updated. Welp, I at least knocked one piece of that off the list: I uploaded “Drill Bits” so that anybody can pull it down now. “Drill Bits” was a product I sold when I did that on the website. It’s a rather vast collection of […]
August 22, 2014
I read on the discussion that Udacity doesn’t offer certificates for its “visualizing algebra” course now… so I wonder if it’s going to just … fade … away. Sad. This online stuff is new enough that in my not so humble opinion, it’s worth exploring different variations… It’s Friday 🙂
August 22, 2014
In the hopefully highly unlikely event that I ever get/have to supervise others… I’d like to remember this: if somebody wants to do something that normally would get an automatic signature… it might be best to let the person do it and then — because you’re so excited about what they did and value them […]
August 21, 2014
Well, the good thing is that working with students informs me as to what they need … the bad thing is, when it’s busy, it’s not as if I can work on those things to help ’em. Another thing not to like about ALEKS: let’s just dump subtraction right on top of adding […]
August 17, 2014
Just another example of “No, people are supposed to be terrified of numbers!” on NPR this morning. http://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340944712/is-there-an-echo-in-here 4:30 Will Shortz introduces this weeks “number puzzle,” a “not very hard” one, in his words. The puzzle has a six-ring target with assorted numbers that you’d score for hitting it, which I don’t recall. (I think […]
August 15, 2014
Nifty keen-o — http://www.nctm.org/publications/article.aspx?id=42799 will let you download an article listing some of the big conceptual confounders. It has been really helpful for me to begin talking about integers with the idea that we may be uprooting some well-entrenched models of what math means: that “plus” always means add and make a number bigger. […]
August 5, 2014
… but no, things didn’t improve. However, my computer at work has not been tainted with updates and … things seem to be actually working. I even got things like answers from StackOverflow — though the advice was to update everything and … no, that doesn’t work… and my subsequent question didn’t get answers. […]
August 3, 2014
So… after those hours getting back to where I could start to re-do things, I couldn’t even get the code to format right to make the text string to tell the person to enter numbers. I went for a ride, against my policies for August Midday but it wasn’t too sunny or hot, and as […]
August 3, 2014
Perhaps I should refrain from being optimistic. I shan’t detail the past hours of utter futility — no, not with programming, which I would rather like to learn: just with being able to get the development environment to work, at all. I even resorted to posting a question at Stack Overflow, on the grounds that […]
August 3, 2014
My plan Friday was to monitor just how much I got accomplished (y) in (x) minutes so I could wisely prioritize where to invest my time, choosing what wouldn’t get done. I successfully created an activity: “enter a subtraction problem and click to have it shown on the number line,” and … when I went […]
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