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September 2014

Boss Fighting and Other #Gamification Thoughts

The quest that is Calculus in my classroom this year has really started to turn interesting. Students have officially moved into that space where teachers can start to feel uncomfortable – they are all over the place! I have students blazing through Quest 3A others scheduling their Quest 2 Boss …

#1CoolThing

So if you are reading this, my challenge to you is to post to social media with this hashtag: #1CoolThing and attach a picture or post about what cool thing you do with your students. If you are an administrator showcase your school or district.  My challenge to you is …

Those Darn Limits!

Calculus this week, we continue with trying to figure out how to solve those darn limits. It’s been a struggle for the students to figure out a consistent way to understand what the limit process means. Finding out you are investigating a graph as you approach specific x-values and not about …

It’s All About Math: Tellagami, Kahoot.it, iMovie and Pictionary

This week in Calculus the task was to break down those barriers that students have when we are talking about limits.  This is really hard, so on Tuesday we started class off with a Kahoo.it quiz (go ahead and take the quiz, see the feedback and think of the possibilities) over the …

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