A Good Day

by | Feb 4, 2014 | Actual Math | 4 comments

When in the course of human events, teachers will sometimes adopt curriculum. The best days happen outside of it. Gremlins, Speed Dating, and Monomial Cubes Before we go further, I should describe what we call “Monster Equations” in my school. The above...

Mullet Ratio – 2013

by | Dec 21, 2013 | Actual Math | 8 comments

Below, it’s grouped by day, and all the files are here if you’re impatient. To get the full experience, you should probably play this Pandora station while you read. Mullet Veterans, some is repetitive from last time, but much is new and improved. Prologue...

Magical Triangle Theorem

by | Nov 20, 2013 | Actual Math | 3 comments

Today, we had an exercise in hype and entertainment, and it didn’t even feel like work. First period, I taught this: The prescribed curriculum has me teach this way: Angles 1 and 2 are supplementary angles, Angle 2 = 40° Angles 2 and 10 are alternate interior...

Conferences and Productivity

by | Nov 5, 2013 | Actual Math | 3 comments

Thanks, those of you who attended EdTech101 at CLMS or Performance Tasks Before Performance Tasks Were Cool at CMC featuring my colleague John Stevens. …whew!.. all those links… I gotta catch my breath. This post is actually more about Productivity, a math...

Distance Formula

by | Oct 2, 2013 | Actual Math, Teaching | 2 comments

I can’t wait until tomorrow, when I tell them that D is actually a distribution center and doesn’t count. …and as I plan the lesson, my mood sunk a bit when I realized that I have to get from here (interesting, fun) to here: Find the length of a line...