Category Archives: Math
- February 13, 2011
- Popping power– also posted in Food, Photos, Teaching
I always forget how much I love popcorn and my wonderful popcorn maker, but then I get the stir crazy out for a batch and I am very quickly reminded. The roommate tends to give me grief for my popcorn maker, since it is slightly bulky and one of the only unitaskers in our kitchen. [...]
- May 6, 2010
- Caterpillars
A funny thing happened today with my students. They decided we needed to start learning in terms of caterpillars. Over the past week we have been working on arithmetic and geometric sequences, or in simple terms: patterns. For those who need a quick math refresher, a student’s problem would look like this: 2, 4, 6, [...]
- March 14, 2010
- Pi Day!– also posted in Food, Photos, Recipes, Teaching
Happy Pi day! When march 14th rolls around, you can always tell just how much of a math geek you are by how many dishes that day are pie-like. Dinner tonight was a pizza pie and desert will be a lemon meringue pie. I already consider myself to be a math geek, and am completely [...]
- February 22, 2010
- Inspiration– also posted in Food, Photos, Teaching
Last Friday was quite a day. Extremely discouraging day at school. One of those times when students walk out of class, won’t stop talking, refuse to do anything useful in class or let anyone else do anything productive, and half of the class is forced to stay after class 10 minutes into lunch to get [...]
- December 1, 2009
- Some days you can just never figure out– also posted in Teaching
The funniest thing happened today. I love my students. They are extremely crazy and unruly, and most of the time they drive me absolutely up the wall, but they have so much character and they sure know how to throw me a curveball now and then. As our warm up activity I gave the students [...]
- September 8, 2009
- I survived the first week of school!– also posted in Photos, Teaching
Goodbye for good, summer. It was an adventure to say the least. I learned so many things, but not 1/1000000th of what I will and still need to learn. I have so many things to fix and figure out, and if I am lucky, in the next 5 years, I will get 1/10000th of those [...]
- August 26, 2009
- What a Geek!– also posted in Photos
I have to admit that this is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. My unit circle from high school is still hanging around here and looking pretty worn because I just can not seem to remember anything from it! This will make my life and the lives of many high [...]
