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Yes, had full-blown anxiety dream of Not Being Able To Get Where I Was Supposed To Be, because I couldn’t remember the million things I wasn’t going to have time to do after I’d packed my clothing. (Remembered 1 today, and might get it done … but copied stuff so I can get it done […]
October 30, 2016
Another Sunday morning listening to Rachel Martin on NPR and another time she plays the role of the “oh, that’s too hard for me!” female. I’m asking myself if a male would have said, “oh, you’re blowing my mind!” and “It’s so complicated!” and/or if I’d find it so annoying. Okay, I just did a google […]
October 29, 2016
So I”m looking through the program for the conference and see somebody’s idea for revolutionizing textbook creation with “choral explanations.” I know what “choral” means in music … we’re all singing together. Seems they mean choral as things like Stack Exchange … wonder if the often toxic nature of those communities to those not […]
October 29, 2016
Getting ready to go to Richmond for the OPen Educational REsources conference… but time to spend crunch time making the actual “lesson plan” with all the ‘this is the standard that goes with’ and ‘this is what the teacher needs to do.’ I found through the Canvas Community some Javascript/HTML5 arithmetic quizzes but no, I […]
October 26, 2016
Whew…. really really busy. As in, students just turning around and walking out because… no place to land! Still had time to notice anotehr Connect “so x is less than greater than ____.” Erm, yea. Sloppy stuff but didn’t have time to screenshot … and I shouldn’t have to. I will […]
October 26, 2016
Thinking yesterday of the way students are actually mastering simple long division because they’re getting lots of practice, but… ugh and a half… This far into the semester they’re still counting for subtracting and looking up almost every. single. multiplication fact. Yes, even those. (Still, not going for the calculator! Except that might be because […]
October 25, 2016
Another typical inconsistency with my “friend” Connect. Costs for making CDs are 4.60x + 50.00 or something like that. CDs sell for ten bucks. A: make an equation for the cost. (They obviously didn’t give an equation but described it in words.) No problem for student. B: Make an equation to describe […]
October 24, 2016
So … they’re supposed to find the average of two numbers in ALEKS. Just two 🙂 As in, let’s notice that the answer is right smack in between them. Oh, and let’s do that division without a calculator, even if it ends up being a decimal. And because 225/2 really isn’t that intimidating, *they […]
October 22, 2016
… trying to figure out how to get traction on this lesson. Lost in the almost infinite possibilities. Remembering things like needing built in practice and review. Time to set the timer and see what can be cranked out in 15 minutes…. … I am deciding that the COmmon Core STandards are such an […]
October 21, 2016
Whereas I acknowledge the goodness of “authenticity,” and “real world” problems… it is a human thing to enjoy solving puzzles. THere’s an *authentic* pleasure in it. Which is to say — sometimes it’s just fun to play around with something that is not career related, not “I have to know this to get through the […]
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October 31, 2016
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