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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Smarter folks than me have blogged about Oklahoma losing its waiver from the US Department of Education this past week. Smarter folks than me have made some very good points, here are my thoughts… Having not ever been involved in the finance side of public education, I cannot say exactly …
Gamification has started! If you have been following this blog over the summer, then you know that I am making a change to gamification and mastery learning in my calculus classes this year. The students will get credit to spend in the market for doing what they are supposed to …
In the summer of 2013, I had the opportunity to go to the Model Schools Conference in Washington D.C. I got some nuggets to bring back to my school and classroom. One of my colleagues picked up a golden nugget and shared it with me as we rode to the …
Hello Moms, Dads, and Guardians! Greeting Students! I want to let you know how excited I am that I will be your PreAP Precalculus or Calculus teacher this year. I have been hard at work all summer planning out the super great things that we are going to do and …
If you have been following this blog over the past couple of months, then you know that I have been taking the step towards gamifying my calculus classes this school year. I am really excited about this, but also really nervous. One of the biggest reasons for my excitement is …
One more post today – since I’m sharing and all! I have started to develop a couple of boards on Pinterest…I think this could potentially be a fabulous place to store/sort/curate items. It’s also a super great place to get some great ideas. I can definitely see where Pinterest can …