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(It’s not happening yet…) I just sent this email to Power in Numbers: Have you seen https://www.geogebra.org/m/zQ7ADTWX in geogebra? It’s a whole BOOK for GED … The “Isle of Mathematics” looks to have a trove of good things, and Geogebra is CC-BY … And I just saw a cool webinar (only because students aren’t here […]
February 17, 2018
REally missing Mary Cliff’s “folk music and things you can see from there” show. She’d have found the songs people have been singing *forever* — new ones and ancient ones, from all over the world — about the realities of evil and what people do to get around it. Meanwhile, back at the ranch … […]
February 16, 2018
Serendipity! I’m trying to do that minimalist fraction stuff and this fraction lesson is linked to on twitter. Yes, it’s Illustrative Math (IM) and I love this promotion of **going back** and doing stuff from earlier because that’s what they need. This linked to a lesson on fraction number lines which is exactly what the quiz […]
October 3, 2017
Okay, this blogpost about creepy twist to MAP test kinda hit home: the test is also supposed to measure students’ “engagement,” and the teacher was supposed to intervene because, it would seem, a student was clicking through too quickly and was therefore deemed “disengaged.” Well, the student just works that fast. Yes, there are teachers […]
September 14, 2017
…. that’s what I have, eh? Well, yesterday I *did* successfully put together “1.4” — adding integers with the same sign number on the number line. Next weeK : 1.5 (adding different signs, then mixing htem up.) THen for *my* course I”m going to follow the ORton-Gillingham principle of ‘don’t teach the […]
September 5, 2017
Mainly I’m doing the time-honored “find that powerpoint file so you can do a better video.” Looked to youtube to see what’s out there already and found several “here are the rules! This is EASY!!!” — breaking two of *my* rules. Don’t tell me it’s easy just because it’s easy for you! and […]
September 1, 2017
Friday, end of “week two.” Labor Day holiday Monday. Yes, people post online and say “I’m teaching ___ for the first time this year — anybody have a curriculum?” Would I want to be in that class? (Would I want to teach in that school?) It’s not raining in Houston… 50 inches, folks… […]
March 20, 2018
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