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Math 753 Background

In 2010 I team taught a class in the grad math/science program at Fresno Pacific University. My teaching partner (Dave Youngs) was more a mentor than a colleague at that point, as I had only recently finished my journey through the masters in education program at FPU. I benefitted greatly from the opportunity to work side by side with someone …

Nike Running 1 (#3ACT)

Flubmaster Have you ever seen someone take a potentially excellent mathematical task and destroy it by flubbing the presentation? Have you ever done that yourself? I’m 2 for 2 so far (with a heavy emphasis on the second offense), so it’s with some excitement and a little bit of nervousness that I share my first Three Act task. Running with …

Difference of Squares Game

A Game! Finals week often has awkward down time for students. With that in mind, I made a game for my middle school students to play next week. I’d love some feedback on the directions, the scoring system, and the game itself. And if you play with your students, let me know how it goes! A Few Words About Points …

Better Assessments: It’s Time to Begin

For background, go here and here. Once you’re ready to play, do this: Create an assessment you don’t hate (or select one you’ve already created). Save/upload the assessment to Dropbox, Google Drive, Scribd, or some other tool where you can share a link to the file. Write some commentary about the assessment in a Google Doc. Complete this form. I’m …

Expressions Challenge

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The Four Fours In my first year of teaching I came across the Four Fours challenge. I loved it. I’ve always considered puzzles, brainteasers, and trivial challenges of that sort to be rather entertaining, so I went to town on the Four Fours right away. The problem gets better as you go: easier target numbers are out of the way …

More than Skillful?

I’m new to the standards based grading world. I’ll share more in another post about what I’m loving, what I’m struggling with, what I’m dreaming about, how I want to use the power of the Internet to make all of my assessments fantastically awesome, etc. But a question just popped into my head after a rather successful (though entirely skill-focused) …

Pockets of Time

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I’m a little worn out after my last couple of posts, so I’ll aim for something more cheerful today. Several years ago (okay, maybe closer to 20 than several) my mom went on a trip with a friend to Monterey. She stopped at a game shop, picked up this little gem, and brought it home for me and my sisters …

Triangles

Pre Algebra is on my teaching list this year. The last time I taught it was five or six years ago, and I’ve changed quite a bit as a teacher since then, so I’m building everything again from scratch. (It feels appropriate to note that my philosophy of teaching/learning has shifted more significantly than my actual practice, at least in …

Estimation 180 Rocks

I learned about Andrew Stadel’s Estimation 180 a few weeks ago. I decided this morning it was time to stop watching and time to start playing along. We’re a bit behind the rest of the estimating world, but in first period (Pre Algebra) we worked through Days 1 and 2 and in third period (Honors Algebra 1) we worked through Day …

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