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Social media had a thread about “frontloading” and “backfilling” lessons, and I was trying to wrap my brain around it… and got provided a great example of it. Students are supposed to figure out the area of the shaded part of the circle. Student comes in: coudln’t figure it out last night. “I know I […]
August 27, 2019
I participated in a “hackathon” where some stuff was presented in a Zoom format, then the next three hours were spent applying that knowledge and continuing to share in that Zoom format. The folks at Lumen LEarning had us make some little questions with HP5 that could be used to support some OER out there. […]
June 3, 2019
So, the Illustrative Math stint is done for now. I am hoping that they decide to do the more involved “support for a class” — but am honestly glad to have summer to keep going in my own directions. I found hashtag #indieweb on twitter full of people who use their own websites to share […]
December 10, 2018
Jack Rotman is a developmental math maven and involved in creating clearer paths for students through college math demands. This blog about striving to reach 100% of our students expresses my thinking when I’m looking at the stuff that inspired my “thread” about “successes” in developmental math. To wit:
September 18, 2018
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 […]
October 14, 2019
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