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One of the things I find challenging to balance is convincing kids of mathematical truths without overwhelming them.  Sometimes, I know, the...

If you've never read Steven Strogatz's book The Joy of x , you should put it on your reading list.  Strogatz, in my opinion, is able...

I've changed my Mathematician Spotlight routine a bit this year for PreCalculus after seeing what @Fouss did with it in her class ( her...

A couple days ago I picked up Steven Strogatz’s The Joy of x from my library.  After reading the table of contents, I immediately decided t...

Last week I had an idea about how I could introduce average value in calculus next year.  When I've taught average value in the past, I...

Disclaimer--this unit is fast and very calculator-heavy.  It would need a good deal of reconstruction for an Advanced Algebra II course.  Ne...

You know those lessons/projects you give your students that you look back on and you're like, "Wow.  That wasn't half bad"...

I had been meaning to get help on this activity a while back, so Fail Friday seems to be the perfect opportunity for this. Anyway...someh...

I just finished conic sections with my Algebra II kids.  I used the Conic Cards, created by the wonderful Cindy Johnson (@Johnsonmath), wit...

Like every other math teacher I know, I love me some math history.  Mathematicians are just some of the craziest people to read about and st...

This is something I did in the very beginning of the year that I meant to blog about and just never did. At our school, students are...

I felt like my students were not yet ready to test on quadratics again (all methods of solving), so on Friday we took a day to recap what th...

Sometimes we have to relish in the little things, right? This is a warm up I gave to my Algebra II students, just a couple days after they...

We've been solving some quadratic equations in Algebra II currently, and I've had an ulterior motive this whole unit. Quadratic eq...

One thing that's been very shocking to me as I've made the transition from college instructor to high school teacher is the lack of ...

As I've said before, I'm all for the motto of "The person doing the work is the person doing the learning," and I fully be...