Give Me a Sine

This year, I tweaked the order in which I teach integration a lot. Since we begin to talk about differentials when we talk about linear appr...

One of my biggest regret after moving districts this year was that I never sat down and put all the lessons I'd learned as a blended...

Here's the motto I'm trying to instill in my kiddos this week: During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing ...

I feel very fortunate to have spent the weekend with some amazing math educators from all over my state, digging into the Common Core State ...

So it's Friday afternoon and in an effort to really knock one out of the park (and avoid the pile of ungraded tests staring back at me),...

Being a STEM teacher makes you think about things you've never considered...a lot. I've spent more time considering rations you'...

I always find my Pre-Calculus class the most challenging to teach at this time of year. Yes, even more so than prepping for AP Calculus for ...

I've been watching way too much Keeping Up With The Kardashians in an effort to numb my brain during end of quarter grading, so here it...

We're just digging into geometric mean in Geometry and the inevitable question of "Why are there 2 types of means?" always ari...

Working with generalized proofs today, we ran into a problem that said (a+b)(a+b)...we were using the distance formula. Oh the crazy answers...

Here enjoying my last (very snowy) night in the northeast before heading back to warmer weather and lesson planning tomorrow, but I had to ...

Today is our last real day of classes before the break and, as would be expected, most classes have a test or quiz. Tomorrow we have the par...

Despite 4 weeks of practice and warnings over and over that I would never just give them a question like "find the slope between these ...

When I was in college, I felt like proofs had personality. I have no doubt this came from years of pouring over them- from intrigued amuseme...

Each week I have my students for a Math Lab. This was supposed to be an extra enrichment or intervention period, but it's turned into or...

There are lots of different ways I define success for my students. Yes, I am happy when my they "succeed" on a quiz and get a go...

While working extensively on rates of change, my class ran into the speed bump known as dimensional analysis. For some of my students, it ca...