Reflections of a High School Math Teacher

I teach High School Mathematics and I love my job. I like to learn new things to become a better teacher. This is a record of my journey.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Shadowing a Student for a Day

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I was a student in high school again today.  Wow, what an experience.  Shadowing a student  has helped me to know better how to teach my cur...
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Friday, October 24, 2014

Hashtag Closure

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This was really fun.  My students loved it.  And it was different.  It brought out relevance and personality to the class.  It also gave a ...
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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Shifting to the use of Desmos and Geogebra Online Graphing Calculators

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      Wow.  This is fun.  I can't believe how easy it is to put math into our student's hands.  It is fast too. With a simple ur...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

5 Random Technology PD (Professional Development) Thoughts

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Technology is tricky. Everyone is at a different place. So PD (Professional Development) time is very important. Here are a few random th...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

10 Reasons Why I think the TI-84 is on the way OUT!

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Yesterday a colleague told me she overheard some students talking about how they never used their TI-84 at home.  She pursued the discussio...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Graphing Polar Equations with Desmos (online graphing calculator) and Padlet (online bulletin board)

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This was easy. We had just covered polar equations in precalculus. I then told each student they should make a cool design using 10 or less...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

What is the Weight of the Snow You Shoveled this Winter?

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A colleague of mine gave me an article today from the Chicago Tribune called "One man's snow-shoveling total: 25 tons (and countin...
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