First day of Spring Break and I’m at the office; yes, that non-student has said good morning and availed themself of a snack from the snack bar, and I REALLY DO WANT TO SPEND AT LEAST 5 OF THE 28 HOURS (one of ’em is gone already) on the MOODLE course and 6 on the […]
February 19, 2021
Wednesday night, for lack of a zoom meeting and being a “give up being a vegetable after 7:00 p.m.” for Lent, I did a draft of a video explanation of “Please Go and Bring For Me” for building multiplicative thinking, because I think it’s a brain changer. It reminds me of “letterbox lessons” for building […]
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 […]
March 8, 2017
We’ve got a subscription for Modumath, a series of math tutorials, and we’re building a course in D2L around it. Nope, not open. (Sigh, they have other stuff that is.) I’m figuring out which lessons to add OER to, to enhance the lesson. Knowing people fall off the ‘math train’ with division, that’s a […]
November 18, 2016
https://mathontheedge.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/one-what/ Sigh, I *need* to be working on the Canvas project. (I need to find my *&* wallet.) Still, watching these videos of students thinking and processing is so affirming. HEre’s you’re PhD project, people: interview (or hypnotize) students who score poorly on these college math assessment tests. Find out just how many […]
March 12, 2015
yea, I know, it’s not “just repeated addition.” In fact, I’m having a separate short Camtasia for repeated addition, arrays, and rates. However, I found this gem of a lesson from https://www.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/tasks/365 taht includes this: Mel is designing cards. She has 4 different colors of paper and 7 different pictures she can glue on the paper. […]
March 13, 2023
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