Reflections of a High School Math Teacher

Our school is undergoing some renovation. Every room will be changed. We are trying to design the ultimate classroom. Will you help? I h...

I am amazed at how Brad Cohen overcame his Tourette Syndrome and became a wonderful teacher. Tourette Syndrome is a neurological condition ...

A colleague told me about an activity that she had done with her Intro to Algebra Students. She gave them each a card with a fraction on it...

This is the latest structure that I have been using in my classes. The directions for this activity are "Sort these into three categor...

Does it matter what way you work 11 times 29 if you get the correct answer? One way would be to multiply 10 times 29 which is 290 and then a...

I received an email this week from a teacher Susan McKay that gave an excellent suggestion. She calls it "Teacher, Student Pair" S...

I have been a firm believer of the idea that when you teach something, you actually learn it better than you would if you just learned it tr...

I tried a matching sound lesson with my class this week. It went really well. I gave a problem like 3x + 5 -6x - 4. I made eight sounds a...

http://www.hearwho.com/ A colleague showed me this site and it is awesome. You just paste in some text to the site and it will change the t...

I think we all need a break from whatever we are doing at least every 25 minutes. This keeps us fresh and engaged. I know myself that I ge...

I have been reading an excellent book by Alex and Brett Harris called "Do Hard Things". The idea is that we have low expectations...

I saw a couple of teacher movies this summer and it made me think of my favorite teacher Mr. Voorhees. He was a math teacher. He has retir...

I just found out about http://www.diigo.com/ . It is very much like http://delicious.com/ in that it is an online bookmark system. Howeve...

I found a cool site on a blog the other day. The blog is called Practical Theory by Chris Lehmann. Click here to get to it. It is called Wo...

I saw a child today taking a walk with an adult. The child would walk for a few moments and then stop to look at a something in the grass. ...

Our principal has recently made a mistake. He plagiarized a speech he made to the senior class during the commemoration ceremony. He open...

How can we get enough repetition in our classes? This years Super Bowl commercials paid $90,000 a second to try to get you to buy their prod...

I take it as a compliment when a student asks me to sign their yearbook. I try to write carefully that I really appreciated them in class. ...

A student teacher that I had many years ago taught the quadratic formula to my class by song and it was a hit. I have students coming back ...

It is usually May when this happens to me as a teacher. I get crabby. One of my students will ask question, and I think, can't you ...