Imbalance Contest Winners Announced! July 26, 2013. 4 months ago, thinking on balance puzzles like these. I started wondering about problems of imbalance.

And I started with the 100s chart. Another amazing characteristic of first graders is that once you explore one avenue of a problem, their.

Earlier this week, as part of a larger workshop on mathematics and technology, I gave an introduction to Twitter as a digital collaboration playground for educators.

November 13, 2014 by John Scammell. I did a bad thing. I was snarky to a pre-service teacher on Twitter. That question was about homework, which is something I have strong opinions about. None of that excuses my snark. After 18 years in the cl.

A blog for planning a High School Geometry course. A fun problem, as long as you know the Pythagorean Theorem. What about triangles? What about irregular triangles? Can you always gets a circle around the polygon, no matter where you start? August 21, 2013.

Teachers Working Together to make our Struggles Productive. What are the three most dreaded words for a math teacher? Absolute.

These are little things that I do throughout the year that seem separate, but I tie them together on the last day of school. And as my students, other teachers, and myself are in a pool of tears. On my first day of school. When the video ends I have 5 writing prompts on the board. The next day I have each student write.

A place for Geometry teachers to share and reflect on implementing CCSS in their classrooms. This blog is dedicated to connecting Geometry teachers. In addition to the discussions and resources on this site, we also conduct weekly live chats via Twitter. An archive of our recent chats can be found here. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

Learning about learning and teaching mathematics. A New Year and New Start. I had hoped to do some reflecting and writing over the summer, however, my last school year ended at a crazy pace. I attended an Institute for the Standards of Mathematical Practice at the EDC.