Tuesday, July 23, 2024

37 Favorites as a High School Math Teacher

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I savored the last year of teaching high school math and retired in May 2024.  It has been bittersweet because I LOVE teaching. I have compi...
Monday, December 20, 2021

The Magic of Students Doing Challenging Questions in Groups of Three on Vertical Surfaces in the Math Classroom

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I read Peter Liljedahl's book  Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics   this past summer and it has been transformational in my tea...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Students Still Need to Move: 9 Brain Breaks to Help Zoom Fatigue

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Zoom Fatigue?  Students still need to move.  Maybe more than ever we need to encourage students to get up and move around during their onlin...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Falling Down Hurts: How My New Covid Hobby is Helping Me Teach Math

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I bought a unicycle in June 2020.  The Covid lock down encouraged me to do this. Then a couple of weeks later I bought a different size unic...
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Friday, November 8, 2019

So Much To Learn: A Teacher’s Journey Shadowing a Student

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James is a senior here at Naperville Central High School that I have known from when he as a soccer player on the freshman team that I coach...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Changing the SCRIPT: A Student Perspective

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A student stayed after school this past spring to talk with me.  I figured it was something about a grade or some help he needed.  He actual...
Monday, March 18, 2019

TRUTH or SNARE: A Math Equivalence Game

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TRUTH means equivalent SNARE means not-equivalent (but really close)  This game is the reverse of a Number Talk.  In a number...