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Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 So: what is the current state of developmental education? According to Hunter Boylan: “If the only thing that you are offering your students is a course in pre-algebra, then it is probably a remedial course. If […]
August 21, 2018
Quality matters, peeps. So there’s an exercise taking survey data and filling in a chart w/ percent and number of degrees on the little circle. 3/26 students had some opinion about math. THis translates into 0.115384615… or 11.5%. Students are to round to the nearest tenth of a percent, and to the nearest whole degree. […]
March 20, 2018
(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 18, 2018
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