Browsing All Posts published on »May, 2019«

Faculty Summer Institute!

May 25, 2019

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Tuesday and Wednesday this was! the keynote speakers were well received and were local teacher types, as opposed to inspirational speakers… … the second day’s was memorable for the “culture change with a dog clicker” idea, which if I remember correctly was not particularly intentional. Whereas students had dissections adn they could get up to […]

Better than it used to be :)

May 24, 2019

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Yes, I’ve got the “plenty of time to do stuff so nothing gets done!” thing happening so!   I’m going to try to have Something To SHare Today.   Well, here’s something 🙂 I found this little “generate the HTML for tables” page  so I don’t have to manually stick a mess of divs in if I want […]

Those concepts

May 17, 2019

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Somebody tweeted about students not getting something and somebody suggested maybe the Ss didn’t get the area concept …   so they checked…  and there’s an awesome YouCubed exercise for building just that concept here (“How many rows?)   🙂 I would want to build in practice and connections towards automaticity, of course 🙂 I’m up to […]

That chart :)

May 15, 2019

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Having the numbers in the boxes means I can use that example to help students bridge to whichever one they’re working on. Now, this is a reference chart that comes after working w/ concrete and visual examples to help build the sometimes hard-to-grasp understanding of just what these powers of ten mean.   The idea that […]

article N + 1

May 6, 2019

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Don’t really have time to blog this through  —  what I recall is that this at least asks questions, especially about how  many students “complete” Algebra 2 but still place into developmental math, and breaks that down by race. https://occrl.illinois.edu/our-products/voices-and-viewpoints-detail/current-topics/2019/03/28/who-is-represented-in-developmental-mathematics-a-look-at-college-readiness-and-community-college-math-requirements     I have lots of wonders — like would the people who “completed” Algebra 2 […]

May Day!

May 1, 2019

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So many powerful associations with that.   Do I need rescue?   Am I taking radical action for working people?   Am I dancing ’round a maypole?  Am I anticipating a month dedicated to the Blessed Mother? Maybe all of the above 🙂 Dodging raindrops… we’re singing on May 18 including excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Utopia, Limited,” […]