To copy Ms. Nowizee from last year, I want to share my Geometry Concept List. This was the first year of Standards Based Grading in Geometry, and before seeing the end of the year results, I’d give it a B (more to follow).
The hard part was designing the list so that each concept was not too b...
The newest car talk puzzler. Draw a diagram, it may help.
Three men, Mr. White, Mr. Brown and Mr. Green, were in the habit of meeting in a local doughnut shop every morning for coffee and doughnuts.
One morning as they were sitting at their usual table, Mr. White remarked, “Hey, will you look...
Math needs better marketing.
There are people who say “I’ll never need this math, these trig identities”, from 10th grade, or 11th grade, or maybe you never learned them. Here’s the catch. Whether or not you ever again use the math you learned in school; the act of having learn...
Wonderlic Sample Test
If you’ve never heard of the Wonderlic, it’s an exam given to players entering the NFL draft every year.
The Wonderlic is an exam comprised of 50 questions. Players have 12 minutes to complete the test. The average score (out of 50) is a 21.
Vince Young made headlin...
Quick post:
In NY our end of the year exam is the Regents exam (no comment). The schedule of the exams this year means that I won’t see my students for 13 days. Great.
I made up a Geometry Regents Scavenger Hunt found here: http://bit.ly/qbyregentsreview
The students solve one set of problems...
New Math Puzzler up this week:
Tommy’s Drive to Work
RAY: Tommy has a new car, it’s 19 years old. … It has one of those newfangled six-digit odometers. It can register as many as 999,999 miles.
So one fine morning last week, Tommy gets into his new car to drive to work. He fires up his eng...
The structure of this post comes from Dan Meyer’s Three Acts of A Mathematical Story.
Have students write down questions they have about the video. Ask them to be silent during this part so that other student’s questions don’t affect their own. By this po...
Great article from the NY Times on the Danger of Praise, with an excellent puzzle included:
Circle of Differences
The numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 are written at the corners of a large square. At each step, at the midpoint of each side, write the positive (or absolute value of the) difference betw...
Car Talk has a new math puzzler up that mixes math and science:
There Was an Old Man…RAY: I’m going to recite an equation and, from that, you are going to give me a limerick that consists of five lines.
TOM: Does this limerick include Nantucket or the band at the Waldorf Astoria?
RAY: ...
Here is a quick tech trick for quickly posting your homework key (or any document that doesn’t need to be editable). Because of my new homework policy, I’ve been posting my homework key on the classroom website on the day that I give the assignment out. This allows the students to check their answ...