Bringing the Real World to Your Math Class Every Day
I’ve been spending the first 5-10 minutes of every 2-hour math class discussing graphs in...
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Category: Classroom Life
Group Exploration in Math
I am often asked how to get learners to spend more time “exploring” in their learning rather than...
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AMATYC Keynote Notes: Interaction and Impasse
Thursday I had the honor of providing the opening keynote for the AMATYC Conference in Denver,...
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The 1-9-90 Rule and Observations of a Classroom Experience
I’ve referenced Vilma Mesa’s Classroom Mapping for a while now, and want to give this...
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Phone Cameras Handle Information in a Snap!
This “Teaching with Tech” column was originally published for MAA Focus but is no...
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Web Tools to Enhance Learning
Here’s a new mindmap containing my recently organized collection of great sites and tools...
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What if you don’t have enough whiteboards?
Just a quick post to share this video from Betty Love (University of Nebraska – Omaha)....
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What does the classroom say?
Yesterday I had a short talk in the ITLC Themed Session called “Change the Classroom, Change...
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Delusional Hindsight and Academe
In a previous post this week, I discussed optimism bias and student success in online classes....
Read MoreTransforming Math for Elementary Ed
After several months alone to think about why education has become so transactional, I decided that I’d have to “walk the walk” and not just “talk the talk” and so I set about revamping my own...
Read MoreNotesharing in the Digital Age
What do you see when you look out at your students? Do you see them writing down everything you write and everything you say? How does it make you feel? Honored, proud, powerful? What if those same students then put those...
Read MoreCrowdsource Your Syllabus Presentation
You know what I hate about the first day of class? Going over the syllabus. You know that the students do nothing but listen to instructors read them the syllabii the first two days of class as they meet all their instructors...
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