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Cell phone tracking, Processing, and computational thinking
I gave a survey to my students recently. My lowest score on any of the questions was 'What I learn in this class will help me in real life.' I've given this question before, and am used to getting less...
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How Good is Your Model (Angry Birds) Part 2 - Refining my process
A year ago, I wrote about my attempt to integrate Angry Birds as part of my quadratic modeling unit. I was certainly not the first, and there have been many others that have taken this idea and run...
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Angry Birds Project - Results and Post-Mortem
In my post last week, I detailed what I was having students do to get some experience modeling quadratic functions using Angry Birds. I was at the 21CL conference in Hong Kong, so the students did this...
View Article2012-2013 Year In Review – Learning Standards
This is the second post reflecting on this past year and I what I did with my students. My first post is located here. I wrote about this year being the first time I went with standards based grading....
View ArticleExponent rules and Witchcraft
I just received this email from a student: I FINALLY UNDERSTAND YOUR WITCHCRAFT OF WHY 3 TO THE POWER OF 0 IS ONE. 3^0 = 3^(1 + -1) = (3^1)*(3^-1) = 3 * (1/3) Talk about an accomplished summer. This...
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After a hiatus: circular functions
It has been a busy time in gealgerobophysiculus land. By land, I of course mean school, and by busy, I mean what results when you have multiple exciting projects going on, school functions to organize,...
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Clicking Useless Buttons and Exponential Models
Last fall, when I was teaching my web design students about jQuery events, I included an example page that counted the number of times a button was clicked and displayed the total. As a clear indicator...
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A Small Change: Solving Equations with Logarithms
In my Math 10 class, did my lesson today involving solving exponential equations that cannot be solved using knowledge of integral powers. My start was the same as it has been for that lesson over many...
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A Small Change: Unit Circle & Trigonometric Functions
I wrote nearly a year ago about my adjustment to what I had done previously to develop the topic. The idea was based on what my own pre-Calculus teacher did in high school, a series of activities...
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Two Lane Road and Collaborative Data Collection
I love doing three act problems. This fact should surprise nobody that regularly reads my blog. In tasks that involve prediction or measurement from a range of sources, I see lots of tables of values...
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