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August 2011 - Posts
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Besides movies like A Beautiful Mind and Alice in Wonderland math movies are few and far between, but there are more recent ones such as The Hangover , Little Big League , and even Mean Girls . Ones that incorporate mathematics and even math you can use Read More...
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You want future teaching, I will give you future teaching. QR codes, they are quick and easy especially if you have iPad's or iPod's in your classroom already. QR codes is a box that looks like a market checkout item, but it is a two dimensional bar code. Read More...
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It has been a while since the last post, so as a little "I'm sorry," I will post all the differentiating materials I have accumulated over the past few weeks. This may be a little overkill, but you can use the materials as you wish and coming up with Read More...
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The new livescribe pens are making their way across the country. Very few classrooms have them and current graduate courses are now offering classes in livescribe (and even giving away free livescribe pens to those who attend). As just in their infancy Read More...
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"Two planes are heading toward each other at ..." is this entertaining? No! Especially not for girls. How many of your math questions have: chocolate, puppies, birthday cake, pool parties, hair salons, jewelry, or lemonade? None? I'm guessing at least Read More...
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Mnemonics helps students learn, especially long drawn out instruction that needs to be summed up and remembered on a quiz or test, such as the order of operations, using PEMDAS: or please excuse my dear aunt sally . Featured below are others used in the Read More...
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We all know that laughter increases a student's "like-ability" of a particular class or teacher. Jokes are a great way to get student's interested in mathematics, other humor, and pranks. Like Projector Pranks is a fun and interesting site. Some jokes Read More...
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I know that hands down incorporating literacy in the math classroom is very difficult, even for veteran teachers. My sister who is going to be an Eelementary teacher received a book in the mail that caught my eye, it was called "50 Literacy Strategies: Read More...
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Along with strategies and techniques for math teachers another field I am interested in is brain research. Over the summer I have read In a Reading State of Mind , by Douglas Fisher and Brain Rules, by John Medina ( www.brainrules.net/ ). I have started Read More...
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When teachers represent ideas, how do they represent them? Linguistically! But, students learn by using there senses of touch, auditory, visual, etc. Using both linguistic and nonlinguisitic representation students are better able to think and recall Read More...
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A great tool that I have began to play around with are Proof Blocks. http://www.proofblocks.com/ They are easy to use and a great tool for advanced geometry where students are confused with angle congruencies and triangle congruencies and just getting Read More...
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I have heard that students in recovery math can't take music or band. Why make them choose? Incorporate music in math, it is easy and makes math fun for the students who couldn't or wanted to be in music. I have heard that math recovery teachers teach Read More...
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In previous posts I have gone over incorporating literature in to mathematics. Here is another idea incorporating poems in your lessons. Below is a poem featured by Math Story there are also many sites that allow you to look and use poems in your classroom. Read More...
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I was informed the other day that one of my colleagues when beginning her math class introduces them by saying in a loud and booming voice, "HELLO Mathematicians." And they go through a sometimes lengthy chant and by the end of the chant the students Read More...
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