I was covering an honors choir class full of senior girls, all with high hopes and college dreams, when I had one of those moments I will never forget: after introducing myself and explaining that I wasn’t in fact a trained choir teacher, but a math teacher, one of the bright, up-and-coming choir hopefuls, pointed at me and said, “LOSER!” It was all I could do to not stare, slack-jawed at such an assault.
April is Financial Literacy Month and the good people at Verizon’s education foundation, Thinkfinity.org, have partnered with other organizations to develop financial literacy resources for social studies, math, and consumer education teachers.
use this project as written to end a chapter on linear equations or conic sections. Students create a picture using lines or a combination or lines and conic sections and write the equations for their lines. I encourage students to be creative with their pictures, but limit the number of lines/equations they need to decipher. I usually limit the lines to 20 lines with only five horizontal or vertical lines.
As a math teacher, I have struggled with what to do with homework. Homework is a conduit of communication between the students and the teacher. If a student knows the material and can show competency without homework, what is the use of the homework? Should every student have to complete the same amount of work for mastery?
PolitiFact.com, the fact-checking site from the St. Petersburg Times that brought you the Truth-o-Meter during the 2008 presidential election, has posted a new device for tracking President Obama’s 510 campaign promises: The Obameter.
The Obameter lists the latest updates to the campaign on its front page and has a 57-item category list of promises that range from agriculture and ethics to terrorism and trade.
Just how small is an amoeba? What is a picometer? How do I stack up to the Great Pyramids of Egypt? How far is it to the next galaxy?
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