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GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: 2019 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: DISCOVERING THE DERIVATIVE! I knew when I took on non-AP Calculus this year that I was going to have to up my game. Last time I taught a non-AP Calculus course I was a first year Calc teacher and I was truly staying only a few daysahead of the kids.
GIVE ME A SINE: A DAY IN THE LIFE 5:15 am Out the door dressed like as eskimo, scrape the car, and be thankful I'm not in my hometown buried under snow right now. I'll take 28 degrees at this point. 5:35 am Arrive at work and my competitive side is a LITTLE sad I'm not the first car in the lot. God bless the English teacher who, despite having 2 kids, beats my kid-less self towork every day.
GIVE ME A SINE: PLAYING AROUND WITH VOLUMES OF REVOLUTION It's finally hereour final topic in AP Calculus!! With the time before spring break winding down, I am wondering where this whole year went and am amazed at how hard my GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: WHAT'S A PARABOLA, ANYWAY? One of my favorite conversations with my students is always when we discuss the geometric definitions of conics. It stems from my middle school teaching years, where I would put a bucket of candy in the middle of room and say "first one to get to it wins!" GIVE ME A SINE: INTRODUCING THE DERIVATIVE (THE ITALIAN WAY) I'm from a big, loud, Italian family and all our biggest celebrations always involved pasta. Imagine my excitement that I can share one of the most exciting days of Calculus with my students and bring pastaalong for the ride!
GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO TRUST THE CORE: MY WEEKEND [Brief aside: I feel so lucky to have taken the path I did to education. My graduate advisor, Dr. Jean Schmittau, was someone who was truly ahead of her time. GIVE ME A SINE: VOLUMES PERFORMANCE TASK: A LOVE STORY The clear were worth up to 10 points extra credit and the colored were worth up to 14 since they were more intricate. For every 10 mL that the group was off from the actual volume of the vase, I would take away one of those extra credit points.GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: 2019 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: DISCOVERING THE DERIVATIVE! I knew when I took on non-AP Calculus this year that I was going to have to up my game. Last time I taught a non-AP Calculus course I was a first year Calc teacher and I was truly staying only a few daysahead of the kids.
GIVE ME A SINE: A DAY IN THE LIFE 5:15 am Out the door dressed like as eskimo, scrape the car, and be thankful I'm not in my hometown buried under snow right now. I'll take 28 degrees at this point. 5:35 am Arrive at work and my competitive side is a LITTLE sad I'm not the first car in the lot. God bless the English teacher who, despite having 2 kids, beats my kid-less self towork every day.
GIVE ME A SINE: PLAYING AROUND WITH VOLUMES OF REVOLUTION It's finally hereour final topic in AP Calculus!! With the time before spring break winding down, I am wondering where this whole year went and am amazed at how hard my GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: WHAT'S A PARABOLA, ANYWAY? One of my favorite conversations with my students is always when we discuss the geometric definitions of conics. It stems from my middle school teaching years, where I would put a bucket of candy in the middle of room and say "first one to get to it wins!" GIVE ME A SINE: INTRODUCING THE DERIVATIVE (THE ITALIAN WAY) I'm from a big, loud, Italian family and all our biggest celebrations always involved pasta. Imagine my excitement that I can share one of the most exciting days of Calculus with my students and bring pastaalong for the ride!
GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO TRUST THE CORE: MY WEEKEND [Brief aside: I feel so lucky to have taken the path I did to education. My graduate advisor, Dr. Jean Schmittau, was someone who was truly ahead of her time. GIVE ME A SINE: VOLUMES PERFORMANCE TASK: A LOVE STORY The clear were worth up to 10 points extra credit and the colored were worth up to 14 since they were more intricate. For every 10 mL that the group was off from the actual volume of the vase, I would take away one of those extra credit points. GIVE ME A SINE: DISCOVERING THE DERIVATIVE! I knew when I took on non-AP Calculus this year that I was going to have to up my game. Last time I taught a non-AP Calculus course I was a first year Calc teacher and I was truly staying only a few daysahead of the kids.
GIVE ME A SINE: PLAYING AROUND WITH VOLUMES OF REVOLUTION It's finally hereour final topic in AP Calculus!! With the time before spring break winding down, I am wondering where this whole year went and am amazed at how hard my GIVE ME A SINE: LOGARITHM CLOTHESLINE Stage 2: Clothesline. I took the outstanding questions from my sophomores and made them into a sorting activity for the clothesline. Logarithms Clothesline Sort. When kids walked in, I had clotheslines up through the center of the classroom, knowing I'd be putting them in small groups to have them work. I handed each group a baggie with the GIVE ME A SINE: JOY RIDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO RIEMANN SUMS This year, I tweaked the order in which I teach integration a lot. Since we begin to talk about differentials when we talk about linear approximation in the applications of differentiation unit, it seemed natural to me to flow directly into differential equations and indefinite integration. GIVE ME A SINE: NOVEMBER 2015 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: VOLUMES PERFORMANCE TASK: A LOVE STORY The clear were worth up to 10 points extra credit and the colored were worth up to 14 since they were more intricate. For every 10 mL that the group was off from the actual volume of the vase, I would take away one of those extra credit points. GIVE ME A SINE: TRIANGLE CONGRUENCE THEOREMS- WHY NOT ASS? First of all, kids, yes. We are going to write the word ASS. We are going to write it repeatedly. I can insist you write it as SSA, but we all know that isn't going to happen OR help you remember it nearly aswell.
GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: AP WEEK IS HERE! During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that our school only offered BC Calculus and we wished there was an option for students who were interested in pursuing Calculus but might not be ready for the demand of BC. GIVE ME A SINE: OCTOBER 2016 I've kissed a lot of frogs (Chutes & Ladders, I'm looking at you) with review activities that just didn't work for me. I've been in classes observing games that don't meet all of my criteria and some teachers make it work so well, but I know without my buy-in it's not going to GIVE ME A SINE: EVERYDAY Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: DISCOVERING THE DERIVATIVE! I knew when I took on non-AP Calculus this year that I was going to have to up my game. Last time I taught a non-AP Calculus course I was a first year Calc teacher and I was truly staying only a few daysahead of the kids.
GIVE ME A SINE: DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS While working extensively on rates of change, my class ran into the speed bump known as dimensional analysis. For some of my students, it came easily.they have a natural intuition about these types of relationships that makes it much easier for them. GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: SUCCESS: REDEFINED Tonight defined for me a third type of success.the type where I see my students succeed as people.These 12, 13, and 14 year old students tirelessly walked through drills and talked with people who are very different from them. GIVE ME A SINE: LOGARITHM CLOTHESLINE Stage 2: Clothesline. I took the outstanding questions from my sophomores and made them into a sorting activity for the clothesline. Logarithms Clothesline Sort. When kids walked in, I had clotheslines up through the center of the classroom, knowing I'd be putting them in small groups to have them work. I handed each group a baggie with the GIVE ME A SINE: THE FIRST WEEK: BUILDING A TRIAD OF The First Week: Building a Triad of Responsibility. First Week 2015. First Week 2009. I have a history of very interesting first weeks of school. There have been good ones, meh ones, and downright weird ones. My very first first day of school ended abruptly in an early dismissal and subsequent closing of school for days due to a massive flood. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: I HATE... I have a weakness. I know it. Everyday I fight it, but I just can't sometimes. Here it isI got into teaching to teach concepts.I love the exploration lessons that engage students in problem solving and showcase their critical thinking skills. GIVE ME A SINE: EVERYDAY Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: DISCOVERING THE DERIVATIVE! I knew when I took on non-AP Calculus this year that I was going to have to up my game. Last time I taught a non-AP Calculus course I was a first year Calc teacher and I was truly staying only a few daysahead of the kids.
GIVE ME A SINE: DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS While working extensively on rates of change, my class ran into the speed bump known as dimensional analysis. For some of my students, it came easily.they have a natural intuition about these types of relationships that makes it much easier for them. GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: SUCCESS: REDEFINED Tonight defined for me a third type of success.the type where I see my students succeed as people.These 12, 13, and 14 year old students tirelessly walked through drills and talked with people who are very different from them. GIVE ME A SINE: LOGARITHM CLOTHESLINE Stage 2: Clothesline. I took the outstanding questions from my sophomores and made them into a sorting activity for the clothesline. Logarithms Clothesline Sort. When kids walked in, I had clotheslines up through the center of the classroom, knowing I'd be putting them in small groups to have them work. I handed each group a baggie with the GIVE ME A SINE: THE FIRST WEEK: BUILDING A TRIAD OF The First Week: Building a Triad of Responsibility. First Week 2015. First Week 2009. I have a history of very interesting first weeks of school. There have been good ones, meh ones, and downright weird ones. My very first first day of school ended abruptly in an early dismissal and subsequent closing of school for days due to a massive flood. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: I HATE... I have a weakness. I know it. Everyday I fight it, but I just can't sometimes. Here it isI got into teaching to teach concepts.I love the exploration lessons that engage students in problem solving and showcase their critical thinking skills. GIVE ME A SINE: IMPLICIT DIFFERENTIATION SORTING ACTIVITY Unfortunately, the calculus isn't going to be "isolated" as we move on in the course and the struggle became very, very real as we started implicit differentiation. With that in mind, I write this sorting activity to help scaffold students in their algebraic skills. I have students identify the initial problem, then work on whiteboards to GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2017 A- Taking limit at a real number x value (not negative infinity), limit is one sided, limit is taken at an infinite discontinuity. B- Function is continuous, does not have an infinite discontinuity. C- Limit exists. D- Limit approaches positive infinity **This is the one I want to make better. GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS Learning to Live-Stream: Review Sessions from my Couch. This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. Yes, I know I had 5-6 weeks of review the last 2 years. Yes, I know we started behind sinceour Pre
GIVE ME A SINE: MARCH 2019 — Nicole Lalanne (@NHLalanne) January 30, 2018 Before teaching average value this year, I say down to recreate it as best I could. A few people asked me for it, so I shared my file below, but all credit goes to Nicole Lalanne for this one! GIVE ME A SINE: JOY RIDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO RIEMANN SUMS This year, I tweaked the order in which I teach integration a lot. Since we begin to talk about differentials when we talk about linear approximation in the applications of differentiation unit, it seemed natural to me to flow directly into differential equations and indefinite integration. GIVE ME A SINE: NOVEMBER 2016 Mean Value Theorem (aka the E-Z Pass Conspiracy Theory ) Kids love a good conspiracy theory and what better tool to scare a new driver than the prospect of an undeserved speeding ticket. I've posted before about how I introduce Mean Value Theorem, but this year I added a new layer of intrigue. This Snopes Article linked above was written about GIVE ME A SINE: JANUARY 2016 The first few weeks of Pre-Calculus are always a little bit overwhelming for me. The course is designed to fill gaps of knowledge before students get in the ring with Calculus in an AP class or when they're off at college. GIVE ME A SINE: MARCH 2016 The clear were worth up to 10 points extra credit and the colored were worth up to 14 since they were more intricate. For every 10 mL that the group was off from the actual volume of the vase, I would take away one of those extra credit points. GIVE ME A SINE: JULY 2016 Have students complete a gallery walk, putting a post it with their individual answer under each respective question. Assign each group a specific question to answer with the expectation that they present their responses to the class. Ask the class to add any additional ideas after the group presents. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 8: OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! Some students have upwards of 10-15 pennants on the wall by March, posting every acceptance they want to share there. This board has seen big names: Yale, Cornell, Duke, Syracuse, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Texas, and many more. GIVE ME A SINE: EVERYDAY Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: DISCOVERING THE DERIVATIVE! I knew when I took on non-AP Calculus this year that I was going to have to up my game. Last time I taught a non-AP Calculus course I was a first year Calc teacher and I was truly staying only a few daysahead of the kids.
GIVE ME A SINE: DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS While working extensively on rates of change, my class ran into the speed bump known as dimensional analysis. For some of my students, it came easily.they have a natural intuition about these types of relationships that makes it much easier for them. GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: SUCCESS: REDEFINED Tonight defined for me a third type of success.the type where I see my students succeed as people.These 12, 13, and 14 year old students tirelessly walked through drills and talked with people who are very different from them. GIVE ME A SINE: LOGARITHM CLOTHESLINE Stage 2: Clothesline. I took the outstanding questions from my sophomores and made them into a sorting activity for the clothesline. Logarithms Clothesline Sort. When kids walked in, I had clotheslines up through the center of the classroom, knowing I'd be putting them in small groups to have them work. I handed each group a baggie with the GIVE ME A SINE: THE FIRST WEEK: BUILDING A TRIAD OF The First Week: Building a Triad of Responsibility. First Week 2015. First Week 2009. I have a history of very interesting first weeks of school. There have been good ones, meh ones, and downright weird ones. My very first first day of school ended abruptly in an early dismissal and subsequent closing of school for days due to a massive flood. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: I HATE... I have a weakness. I know it. Everyday I fight it, but I just can't sometimes. Here it isI got into teaching to teach concepts.I love the exploration lessons that engage students in problem solving and showcase their critical thinking skills. GIVE ME A SINE: EVERYDAY Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: DISCOVERING THE DERIVATIVE! I knew when I took on non-AP Calculus this year that I was going to have to up my game. Last time I taught a non-AP Calculus course I was a first year Calc teacher and I was truly staying only a few daysahead of the kids.
GIVE ME A SINE: DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS While working extensively on rates of change, my class ran into the speed bump known as dimensional analysis. For some of my students, it came easily.they have a natural intuition about these types of relationships that makes it much easier for them. GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: SUCCESS: REDEFINED Tonight defined for me a third type of success.the type where I see my students succeed as people.These 12, 13, and 14 year old students tirelessly walked through drills and talked with people who are very different from them. GIVE ME A SINE: LOGARITHM CLOTHESLINE Stage 2: Clothesline. I took the outstanding questions from my sophomores and made them into a sorting activity for the clothesline. Logarithms Clothesline Sort. When kids walked in, I had clotheslines up through the center of the classroom, knowing I'd be putting them in small groups to have them work. I handed each group a baggie with the GIVE ME A SINE: THE FIRST WEEK: BUILDING A TRIAD OF The First Week: Building a Triad of Responsibility. First Week 2015. First Week 2009. I have a history of very interesting first weeks of school. There have been good ones, meh ones, and downright weird ones. My very first first day of school ended abruptly in an early dismissal and subsequent closing of school for days due to a massive flood. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: I HATE... I have a weakness. I know it. Everyday I fight it, but I just can't sometimes. Here it isI got into teaching to teach concepts.I love the exploration lessons that engage students in problem solving and showcase their critical thinking skills. GIVE ME A SINE: IMPLICIT DIFFERENTIATION SORTING ACTIVITY Unfortunately, the calculus isn't going to be "isolated" as we move on in the course and the struggle became very, very real as we started implicit differentiation. With that in mind, I write this sorting activity to help scaffold students in their algebraic skills. I have students identify the initial problem, then work on whiteboards to GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2017 A- Taking limit at a real number x value (not negative infinity), limit is one sided, limit is taken at an infinite discontinuity. B- Function is continuous, does not have an infinite discontinuity. C- Limit exists. D- Limit approaches positive infinity **This is the one I want to make better. GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS Learning to Live-Stream: Review Sessions from my Couch. This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. Yes, I know I had 5-6 weeks of review the last 2 years. Yes, I know we started behind sinceour Pre
GIVE ME A SINE: MARCH 2019 — Nicole Lalanne (@NHLalanne) January 30, 2018 Before teaching average value this year, I say down to recreate it as best I could. A few people asked me for it, so I shared my file below, but all credit goes to Nicole Lalanne for this one! GIVE ME A SINE: JOY RIDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO RIEMANN SUMS This year, I tweaked the order in which I teach integration a lot. Since we begin to talk about differentials when we talk about linear approximation in the applications of differentiation unit, it seemed natural to me to flow directly into differential equations and indefinite integration. GIVE ME A SINE: NOVEMBER 2016 Mean Value Theorem (aka the E-Z Pass Conspiracy Theory ) Kids love a good conspiracy theory and what better tool to scare a new driver than the prospect of an undeserved speeding ticket. I've posted before about how I introduce Mean Value Theorem, but this year I added a new layer of intrigue. This Snopes Article linked above was written about GIVE ME A SINE: JANUARY 2016 The first few weeks of Pre-Calculus are always a little bit overwhelming for me. The course is designed to fill gaps of knowledge before students get in the ring with Calculus in an AP class or when they're off at college. GIVE ME A SINE: MARCH 2016 The clear were worth up to 10 points extra credit and the colored were worth up to 14 since they were more intricate. For every 10 mL that the group was off from the actual volume of the vase, I would take away one of those extra credit points. GIVE ME A SINE: JULY 2016 Have students complete a gallery walk, putting a post it with their individual answer under each respective question. Assign each group a specific question to answer with the expectation that they present their responses to the class. Ask the class to add any additional ideas after the group presents. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 8: OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! Some students have upwards of 10-15 pennants on the wall by March, posting every acceptance they want to share there. This board has seen big names: Yale, Cornell, Duke, Syracuse, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Texas, and many more.GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: AFTERMATH OF SANDY HOOK It's taken me 5 days to even begin to form words about what happened in Connecticut last week. As a teacher, as a person born in Connecticut, and as a human being, I have absolutely nothing but prayers and sorrow for all the families affected by the tragedy. GIVE ME A SINE: SEPTEMBER 2015 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: AP WEEK IS HERE! During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that our school only offered BC Calculus and we wished there was an option for students who were interested in pursuing Calculus but might not be ready for the demand of BC.GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: AFTERMATH OF SANDY HOOK It's taken me 5 days to even begin to form words about what happened in Connecticut last week. As a teacher, as a person born in Connecticut, and as a human being, I have absolutely nothing but prayers and sorrow for all the families affected by the tragedy. GIVE ME A SINE: SEPTEMBER 2015 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: AP WEEK IS HERE! During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that our school only offered BC Calculus and we wished there was an option for students who were interested in pursuing Calculus but might not be ready for the demand of BC. GIVE ME A SINE: RATIONAL FUNCTIONS CHALLENGES! I always find my Pre-Calculus class the most challenging to teach at this time of year. Yes, even more so than prepping for AP Calculus for the first time and teaching a blended class with 50 students and about 10,000 things to grade every night. GIVE ME A SINE: JANUARY 2016 The first few weeks of Pre-Calculus are always a little bit overwhelming for me. The course is designed to fill gaps of knowledge before students get in the ring with Calculus in an AP class or when they're off at college. GIVE ME A SINE: MARCH 2019 — Nicole Lalanne (@NHLalanne) January 30, 2018 Before teaching average value this year, I say down to recreate it as best I could. A few people asked me for it, so I shared my file below, but all credit goes to Nicole Lalanne for this one! GIVE ME A SINE: NOVEMBER 2016 Mean Value Theorem (aka the E-Z Pass Conspiracy Theory ) Kids love a good conspiracy theory and what better tool to scare a new driver than the prospect of an undeserved speeding ticket. I've posted before about how I introduce Mean Value Theorem, but this year I added a new layer of intrigue. This Snopes Article linked above was written about GIVE ME A SINE: JULY 2016 Have students complete a gallery walk, putting a post it with their individual answer under each respective question. Assign each group a specific question to answer with the expectation that they present their responses to the class. Ask the class to add any additional ideas after the group presents. GIVE ME A SINE: JOY RIDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO RIEMANN SUMS This year, I tweaked the order in which I teach integration a lot. Since we begin to talk about differentials when we talk about linear approximation in the applications of differentiation unit, it seemed natural to me to flow directly into differential equations and indefinite integration. GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2017 Given our high number of snow days last year and changes in curriculum, our Pre-calc classes didn't get as far into the Limits unit as they have gotten in the past. With that in mind, our PLC has tried to put some extra umph into our limits unit to cover GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2016 Since I just found out that I do in fact have a classroom and was reminded of the poster by this tweet tonight: When kids ask for something, we expect them to say "please." When they say they can't do something, we should expect them to say "yet." — Justin (@JustinAion) August 26, 2016. GIVE ME A SINE: APRIL 2016 This tool provides feedback on what I would consider the 3 most important aspects of any lesson: alignment to standards, appropriate selection of instructional strategies, and student opportunities to engage with the mathematics. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 8: OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! Some students have upwards of 10-15 pennants on the wall by March, posting every acceptance they want to share there. This board has seen big names: Yale, Cornell, Duke, Syracuse, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Texas, and many more.GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: AFTERMATH OF SANDY HOOK It's taken me 5 days to even begin to form words about what happened in Connecticut last week. As a teacher, as a person born in Connecticut, and as a human being, I have absolutely nothing but prayers and sorrow for all the families affected by the tragedy. GIVE ME A SINE: SEPTEMBER 2015 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: AP WEEK IS HERE! During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that our school only offered BC Calculus and we wished there was an option for students who were interested in pursuing Calculus but might not be ready for the demand of BC.GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: AFTERMATH OF SANDY HOOK It's taken me 5 days to even begin to form words about what happened in Connecticut last week. As a teacher, as a person born in Connecticut, and as a human being, I have absolutely nothing but prayers and sorrow for all the families affected by the tragedy. GIVE ME A SINE: RATIONAL FUNCTIONS CHALLENGES! I always find my Pre-Calculus class the most challenging to teach at this time of year. Yes, even more so than prepping for AP Calculus for the first time and teaching a blended class with 50 students and about 10,000 things to grade every night. GIVE ME A SINE: JANUARY 2016 The first few weeks of Pre-Calculus are always a little bit overwhelming for me. The course is designed to fill gaps of knowledge before students get in the ring with Calculus in an AP class or when they're off at college. GIVE ME A SINE: MARCH 2019 — Nicole Lalanne (@NHLalanne) January 30, 2018 Before teaching average value this year, I say down to recreate it as best I could. A few people asked me for it, so I shared my file below, but all credit goes to Nicole Lalanne for this one! GIVE ME A SINE: NOVEMBER 2016 Mean Value Theorem (aka the E-Z Pass Conspiracy Theory ) Kids love a good conspiracy theory and what better tool to scare a new driver than the prospect of an undeserved speeding ticket. I've posted before about how I introduce Mean Value Theorem, but this year I added a new layer of intrigue. This Snopes Article linked above was written about GIVE ME A SINE: JULY 2016 Have students complete a gallery walk, putting a post it with their individual answer under each respective question. Assign each group a specific question to answer with the expectation that they present their responses to the class. Ask the class to add any additional ideas after the group presents. GIVE ME A SINE: JOY RIDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO RIEMANN SUMS This year, I tweaked the order in which I teach integration a lot. Since we begin to talk about differentials when we talk about linear approximation in the applications of differentiation unit, it seemed natural to me to flow directly into differential equations and indefinite integration. GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2017 Given our high number of snow days last year and changes in curriculum, our Pre-calc classes didn't get as far into the Limits unit as they have gotten in the past. With that in mind, our PLC has tried to put some extra umph into our limits unit to cover GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2016 Since I just found out that I do in fact have a classroom and was reminded of the poster by this tweet tonight: When kids ask for something, we expect them to say "please." When they say they can't do something, we should expect them to say "yet." — Justin (@JustinAion) August 26, 2016. GIVE ME A SINE: APRIL 2016 This tool provides feedback on what I would consider the 3 most important aspects of any lesson: alignment to standards, appropriate selection of instructional strategies, and student opportunities to engage with the mathematics. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 8: OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! Some students have upwards of 10-15 pennants on the wall by March, posting every acceptance they want to share there. This board has seen big names: Yale, Cornell, Duke, Syracuse, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Texas, and many more.GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: AFTERMATH OF SANDY HOOK It's taken me 5 days to even begin to form words about what happened in Connecticut last week. As a teacher, as a person born in Connecticut, and as a human being, I have absolutely nothing but prayers and sorrow for all the families affected by the tragedy. GIVE ME A SINE: SEPTEMBER 2015 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: AP WEEK IS HERE! During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that our school only offered BC Calculus and we wished there was an option for students who were interested in pursuing Calculus but might not be ready for the demand of BC.GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: RATIONAL FUNCTIONS CHALLENGES! I always find my Pre-Calculus class the most challenging to teach at this time of year. Yes, even more so than prepping for AP Calculus for the first time and teaching a blended class with 50 students and about 10,000 things to grade every night. GIVE ME A SINE: JANUARY 2016 The first few weeks of Pre-Calculus are always a little bit overwhelming for me. The course is designed to fill gaps of knowledge before students get in the ring with Calculus in an AP class or when they're off at college. GIVE ME A SINE: MARCH 2019 — Nicole Lalanne (@NHLalanne) January 30, 2018 Before teaching average value this year, I say down to recreate it as best I could. A few people asked me for it, so I shared my file below, but all credit goes to Nicole Lalanne for this one! GIVE ME A SINE: NOVEMBER 2016 Mean Value Theorem (aka the E-Z Pass Conspiracy Theory ) Kids love a good conspiracy theory and what better tool to scare a new driver than the prospect of an undeserved speeding ticket. I've posted before about how I introduce Mean Value Theorem, but this year I added a new layer of intrigue. This Snopes Article linked above was written about GIVE ME A SINE: JULY 2016 Have students complete a gallery walk, putting a post it with their individual answer under each respective question. Assign each group a specific question to answer with the expectation that they present their responses to the class. Ask the class to add any additional ideas after the group presents. GIVE ME A SINE: JOY RIDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO RIEMANN SUMS This year, I tweaked the order in which I teach integration a lot. Since we begin to talk about differentials when we talk about linear approximation in the applications of differentiation unit, it seemed natural to me to flow directly into differential equations and indefinite integration. GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2017 Given our high number of snow days last year and changes in curriculum, our Pre-calc classes didn't get as far into the Limits unit as they have gotten in the past. With that in mind, our PLC has tried to put some extra umph into our limits unit to cover GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2016 Since I just found out that I do in fact have a classroom and was reminded of the poster by this tweet tonight: When kids ask for something, we expect them to say "please." When they say they can't do something, we should expect them to say "yet." — Justin (@JustinAion) August 26, 2016. GIVE ME A SINE: APRIL 2016 This tool provides feedback on what I would consider the 3 most important aspects of any lesson: alignment to standards, appropriate selection of instructional strategies, and student opportunities to engage with the mathematics. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 8: OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! Some students have upwards of 10-15 pennants on the wall by March, posting every acceptance they want to share there. This board has seen big names: Yale, Cornell, Duke, Syracuse, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Texas, and many more.GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: AFTERMATH OF SANDY HOOK It's taken me 5 days to even begin to form words about what happened in Connecticut last week. As a teacher, as a person born in Connecticut, and as a human being, I have absolutely nothing but prayers and sorrow for all the families affected by the tragedy. GIVE ME A SINE: SEPTEMBER 2015 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: AP WEEK IS HERE! During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that our school only offered BC Calculus and we wished there was an option for students who were interested in pursuing Calculus but might not be ready for the demand of BC.GIVE ME A SINE
The world is a better place with each and every one of you in it. New problems will arise, old problems will resurface, and the world is going to NEED YOU to fix them! The world will need the person you’ve become over the past four years and the person you GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY Knowing that I won't be teaching Geometry this year, I wanted to pass on the full project I've drafted to someone who could either use it or adapt it and make it better. Combatting Local Food Insecurity: Points of Concurrency in Triangles. This lesson is in a 5E (ish) format- I'm working on a graduate certificate in STEM Leadership and I wrote GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: AFTERMATH OF SANDY HOOK It's taken me 5 days to even begin to form words about what happened in Connecticut last week. As a teacher, as a person born in Connecticut, and as a human being, I have absolutely nothing but prayers and sorrow for all the families affected by the tragedy. GIVE ME A SINE: SEPTEMBER 2015 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: AP WEEK IS HERE! During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that our school only offered BC Calculus and we wished there was an option for students who were interested in pursuing Calculus but might not be ready for the demand of BC. GIVE ME A SINE: RATIONAL FUNCTIONS CHALLENGES! I always find my Pre-Calculus class the most challenging to teach at this time of year. Yes, even more so than prepping for AP Calculus for the first time and teaching a blended class with 50 students and about 10,000 things to grade every night. GIVE ME A SINE: JANUARY 2016 The first few weeks of Pre-Calculus are always a little bit overwhelming for me. The course is designed to fill gaps of knowledge before students get in the ring with Calculus in an AP class or when they're off at college. GIVE ME A SINE: MARCH 2019 — Nicole Lalanne (@NHLalanne) January 30, 2018 Before teaching average value this year, I say down to recreate it as best I could. A few people asked me for it, so I shared my file below, but all credit goes to Nicole Lalanne for this one! GIVE ME A SINE: NOVEMBER 2016 Mean Value Theorem (aka the E-Z Pass Conspiracy Theory ) Kids love a good conspiracy theory and what better tool to scare a new driver than the prospect of an undeserved speeding ticket. I've posted before about how I introduce Mean Value Theorem, but this year I added a new layer of intrigue. This Snopes Article linked above was written about GIVE ME A SINE: JULY 2016 Have students complete a gallery walk, putting a post it with their individual answer under each respective question. Assign each group a specific question to answer with the expectation that they present their responses to the class. Ask the class to add any additional ideas after the group presents. GIVE ME A SINE: JOY RIDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO RIEMANN SUMS This year, I tweaked the order in which I teach integration a lot. Since we begin to talk about differentials when we talk about linear approximation in the applications of differentiation unit, it seemed natural to me to flow directly into differential equations and indefinite integration. GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2017 Given our high number of snow days last year and changes in curriculum, our Pre-calc classes didn't get as far into the Limits unit as they have gotten in the past. With that in mind, our PLC has tried to put some extra umph into our limits unit to cover GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2016 Since I just found out that I do in fact have a classroom and was reminded of the poster by this tweet tonight: When kids ask for something, we expect them to say "please." When they say they can't do something, we should expect them to say "yet." — Justin (@JustinAion) August 26, 2016. GIVE ME A SINE: APRIL 2016 This tool provides feedback on what I would consider the 3 most important aspects of any lesson: alignment to standards, appropriate selection of instructional strategies, and student opportunities to engage with the mathematics. GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 8: OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! Some students have upwards of 10-15 pennants on the wall by March, posting every acceptance they want to share there. This board has seen big names: Yale, Cornell, Duke, Syracuse, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Texas, and many more.GIVE ME A SINE
— Caitlyn Gironda (@Caitlyn_Gironda) May 21, 2020 For additional context: This year, I taught AP Calculus AB, Calculus, and standard level Algebra 2 in a large suburban high school. GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY I then utilized the USDA's Food Access Research Atlas and Google Maps to identify local food deserts (which was actually prevalent in my district, which is perceived to be affluent by many outside the community). As you can see from the map here, these exist throughout the country, and not just in urban or predominantly minorityneighborhoods.
GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: AFTERMATH OF SANDY HOOK It's taken me 5 days to even begin to form words about what happened in Connecticut last week. As a teacher, as a person born in Connecticut, and as a human being, I have absolutely nothing but prayers and sorrow for all the families affected by the tragedy. GIVE ME A SINE: SEPTEMBER 2015 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: AP WEEK IS HERE! During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that our school only offered BC Calculus and we wished there was an option for students who were interested in pursuing Calculus but might not be ready for the demand of BC.GIVE ME A SINE
— Caitlyn Gironda (@Caitlyn_Gironda) May 21, 2020 For additional context: This year, I taught AP Calculus AB, Calculus, and standard level Algebra 2 in a large suburban high school. GIVE ME A SINE: JUNE 2019 Today I watched 522 of my favorite people walk across the stage and on to their next big adventure. I laughed, I cried (no big surprise to anyone who has ever sat through a year of my class or a Subaru/Folgers Coffee commercial with me), I sweat in a giant black garbage bag of a graduation robe.it was beautiful. GIVE ME A SINE: THANKS, Y'ALL. Nearly 5 years ago, my (then) boyfriend and I graduated from our beloved alma mater with no jobs and nowhere to go but our parents' houses. Unfortunately for us, that meant being hundreds of miles apart as his parents had retired to the Mecca better known as Myrtle Beach. GIVE ME A SINE: GIVING THANKS Teachers have a relatively thankless job. We spend 40 hours a week with students who are learning what it means to respect and appreciate. Translation: we sometimes go unrespected andunappreciated.
GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 1: TRIANGLE CONCURRENCY I then utilized the USDA's Food Access Research Atlas and Google Maps to identify local food deserts (which was actually prevalent in my district, which is perceived to be affluent by many outside the community). As you can see from the map here, these exist throughout the country, and not just in urban or predominantly minorityneighborhoods.
GIVE ME A SINE: LEARNING TO LIVE-STREAM: REVIEW SESSIONS This year has been a hot mess of delays, snow days, and general schedule interruptions that have gotten me a little jumpy about my AP pacing. Yes, I know the exam is a week later this year. GIVE ME A SINE: FEBRUARY 2016 Students look at the 1st card and work with their partner to solve the problem completely on their whiteboard or in their notes; First groupto have a complete
GIVE ME A SINE: AFTERMATH OF SANDY HOOK It's taken me 5 days to even begin to form words about what happened in Connecticut last week. As a teacher, as a person born in Connecticut, and as a human being, I have absolutely nothing but prayers and sorrow for all the families affected by the tragedy. GIVE ME A SINE: SEPTEMBER 2015 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: AP WEEK IS HERE! During the middle of last year, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that our school only offered BC Calculus and we wished there was an option for students who were interested in pursuing Calculus but might not be ready for the demand of BC. GIVE ME A SINE: RATIONAL FUNCTIONS CHALLENGES! I always find my Pre-Calculus class the most challenging to teach at this time of year. Yes, even more so than prepping for AP Calculus for the first time and teaching a blended class with 50 students and about 10,000 things to grade every night. GIVE ME A SINE: NOVEMBER 2016 Sharing ideas & making bad math puns on the internet since 2012 GIVE ME A SINE: JULY 2016 Whichever method I wind up choosing, I always conclude by trying to establish a maximum of 4 expectations (I don't love the word "rules"and I don't love a
GIVE ME A SINE: JANUARY 2016 The first few weeks of Pre-Calculus are always a little bit overwhelming for me. The course is designed to fill gaps of knowledge before students get in the ring with Calculus in an AP class or when they're off at college. GIVE ME A SINE: MARCH 2019 — Nicole Lalanne (@NHLalanne) January 30, 2018 Before teaching average value this year, I say down to recreate it as best I could. A few people asked me for it, so I shared my file below, but all credit goes to Nicole Lalanne for this one! GIVE ME A SINE: JOY RIDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO RIEMANN SUMS This year, I tweaked the order in which I teach integration a lot. Since we begin to talk about differentials when we talk about linear approximation in the applications of differentiation unit, it seemed natural to me to flow directly into differential equations and indefinite integration. GIVE ME A SINE: APRIL 2016 This tool provides feedback on what I would consider the 3 most important aspects of any lesson: alignment to standards, appropriate selection of instructional strategies, and student opportunities to engage with the mathematics. GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2016 Second to last post of #MTBoSBlaugust! This has been an incredibly rewarding experience, gotten me ready for back to school, and helped me see how much blogging increases my critical thinking about myteaching.
GIVE ME A SINE: AUGUST 2017 Given our high number of snow days last year and changes in curriculum, our Pre-calc classes didn't get as far into the Limits unit as they have gotten in the past. With that in mind, our PLC has tried to put some extra umph into our limits unit to cover GIVE ME A SINE: #MTBOSBLAUGUST DAY 8: OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! Some students have upwards of 10-15 pennants on the wall by March, posting every acceptance they want to share there. This board has seen big names: Yale, Cornell, Duke, Syracuse, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Texas, and many more.GIVE ME A SINE
Sharing Ideas & Making Bad Math Puns on the Internet Since 2012 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 LIMITS AT INFINITY- UNDERSTANDING DOMINANCE WITH "INFINITY WAR" I recently met with one of our Pre-Calculus teachers to talk about what else they could do make sure students were better prepared for Calculus when they get to me. Unsurprisingly, this set me on a thought path about what experiences I wish my students had before my class, ingeneral.
I can remediate skills, I can teach more factoring, I make you do all my goofy dances to help remember the algebra rules you may have forgotten. One thing I can't do is time travel back to when you first learned a concept and ask you to think deeply about it before you are told all the "rules" you need to play the game. So many of my students get to me with "rules" and then are surprised that they can't remember them all. They are hesitant to think about the "why," even if it might save them time and mental energy in the end. One of first times I encounter this is in teaching limits at infinity. Predicting end behavior is such a beautiful exercise in logic, testing your understanding of algebra and concept alike. For students who've only memorized the "top heavy" and "bottom heavy" rules, anything beyond a rational functions becomes a challenge.To
combat that this year, I created my very own "Infinity War" (cue gifs and memes of the Avengers). 1) Students are given a deck of function cards to be dealt and divided among the group (I am doing pairs!) 2) Each round, every student flips over 1 card. They work together to figure out which would be "dominant" as x approaches infinity. 3) Player with the dominant card wins! 4) Play repeats until one player has all cards OR Mrs. G panics about the amount of time left in class and calls "TIME!"Here is the file:
Dominance "Infinity War" I'm hoping this helps build more conceptual understanding of why end behavior occurs the way it does and makes limits at infinity a more intuitive topic. I'll report back after I use the activity....10 hours from now in 1st block... :)Posted by Mrs. G
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2019 COMPOSITE FUNCTIONS TASK One of my goals for this summer has been to rewrite a bit of my non-AP Calculus course. After so many years of teaching AP and focusing on making sure I was being challenging enough, I found that my tendency was to give tasks that were a bit too far out of my students' ZPD. I adjusted quickly and got better as I got to know their strengths and weaknesses, but any time it happened I knew it would hurt some of their trust in themselves...and maybe in me.Many
of these students were not enrolled in an honors level pre-calculus course last year, so algebraic concepts are fuzzier than you might expect at the very beginning of the year. They need more explicit practice with those background skills that AP students have mastered. One of those, I knew, would be dealing with composite functions- both their composition and decomposition. This is a key skills for the remainder of the course, with special importance to limit definition of the derivative, chain rule, optimization, and integration by usubstitution.
As both a pre-assessment and a task to get them thinking in groups, I drafted this sorting activity. It gives students notational representations of composite function and expressions to match. There are a few that don't quite match, and students must work to answer questions about those.I
also am going to be using Index Card Questions (as described here in my _Necessary Conditions_ blog)
with my students for the first time this day, so I'm having students reflect on the classroom norms we've used to emphasize them as we move into more content-centric lessons. This is very much in draft form, so if you have any feedback, pleaselet me know!
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MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2019 ALGEBRA 2 TRIGONOMETRY PRACTICE CIRCUITSharing
a quick practice activity from my trigonometry unit in Algebra 2 thisyear!
Trigonometry Circuit This doesn't cover the whole unit, but you can plan to see:* Coterminal Angles
* Reference Angles
* Sine and Cosine as Coordinate Points * Finding Exact Trig Values of Sine/Cosine/Tangent* Radians
Feel free to steal or adapt! Happy Trig-ing!Posted by Mrs. G
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2019 MY FAVORITE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL TRADITIONS So many people are spending #MTBoSBlaugust writing about what they'll be doing on the first day of school, but I want to talk about one of the most special days of my year- the _last_ day of school! I teach primarily seniors. We typically have 4-5 weeks after the AP exam and by the end of June, class can feel a lot like this: Actual Photo of AP Calculus Class in June But the very last day is special- a sacred time where students can reflect on their growth as a person and be sent on their way into life after high school with love and support. The things below are some of the things that make me love it so, so much.AN
INDIVIDUAL CARD
I live for a custom card. I made my husband and dog dress up in matching pajamas last year for our christmas card. It never gets oldto me- truly.
With that in mind, I started making custom cards for my kids and writing them each personal note. Staples almost always has a Groupon to get enough cards for all my kids for $20 and I use E-Bates too, so it's not particularly costly. I include my favorite quote, a math-y pun, and my email sot hey can keep in touch. Here was this year'scard:
It takes a long time, but I write each senior a card. I get so many emails in October or May of the next year, when kids come across the card in their dorm room and decide to drop a line and say hi....one of my favorite day-brighteners._
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A KEEPSAKE
One of my middle school teachers did this for me and I continue to pay it forward. I ask all my seniors and many of my colleagues to tell me their favorite trait about each student that I teach. I put them all together anonymously and give them out to the students to keep. Here are a few of my favorites from this year: I laminate these and hand them out to wallet-sized cards.AN EXPLANATION
The first thing my senior gift includes is this small note of support and an explanation of the keepsake: _"Your time at SSHS is coming to an end...your next big adventure awaits! Know that life has lots of twists and turns in store for you-some amazing and exciting, some terrifying and heart-breaking.When life gets hard, it’s easy to forget how important you are to others and how much power lies within you. I hope that this card serves as a reminder of the impact you’ve made and the amazing things others see in you, even when it’s hard to see them within yourself. Tuck it away and take it out on a day when it’s hard to remember who you are and why you’re so important. You always have a home and team of cheerleaders here at SSHS. So proud of you!-Mrs Gironda"__
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AN INSPIRATION
I try to either show a video or read something that will inspire my students. This year, it was this. I think it might be this forever. I cried reading it in every. single. class. Let's Hear It For The Average Child The ending of the reading, just like the end of the school year, just hits me right in the heart:_
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_"Summer beckons, a great, green, gorgeous gift. We’ve already kept you far too long, so let us send you forth with just one last reminder of a truth that somehow you already understand, though school is not the place where you learned it:_ _ __
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Life is not a contest, and the world is not an arena. Just by being here, unique among all others, offering contributions that no one else can give, you have already won the one prize that matters most."_Posted by Mrs. G
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2019 NECESSARY CONDITIONS: EFFECTIVE FACILITATION & WRAP UP Last day of my 3 part series on _Necessary Conditions_! The last part of the book focussed on Effective Facilitation of tasks, the 3rd and final element of the pedagogy outlined. One of the things that makes observing other classrooms so special is when you see the magic that goes on within those walls. Effective facilitation seems like a gift to some, but the further I've gotten in to teaching, the more I realize it's half science and half art. It can be learned, it can be practiced, it can be honed. Academic safety feels like something I try to foster in my classroom already. Quality tasks can be found in so many places and Twitter and the MTBoS has been such a huge wealth of them for me. But effective facilitation, that takes time and intention and research and growth. It's where most of my goals lie in my professional growth each year and it's the part of the book that drewme in the most.
IDEAS I'M IMPLEMENTING/SAVING FOR LATER: * Index Card Questions * Oh baby, am I stealing this idea!! The teacher in the book gave out one card per week at the beginning of the year with a question that would help facilitate mathematical conversation. Each week, they'd add in another question. They included (but were not limitedto):
* Can you justify that? * What assumptions are we making? * Does that align with our initial estimate? * What other problems does this look like? * Publicizing Feedback During Group Work * I loved the suggestion of using your document cam to record a plus/delta and recording group behaviors during work time- both commendable one and ones that need to be changed. Here, you can record specific phrasing, questions, use of Standards for Mathematical Practice, etc, and use those as evidence in a whole group conversation about how the class is attending to different norms. * Reflecting & Debriefing Norms More * I make a huge point of establishing norms at the beginning of the school year, but I liked the ideas for revisiting them throughout the year. Questions like "What norms did you exhibit well today?" or "Which norms would you like to focus on tomorrow" are great, quick warm up prompts. These discusses can result in reflection, public praise, and re-emphasizing what we worked so hard to establish asimportant on Day 1
* I want to use rubrics for more reflection here- doing more of these tasks and having students use rubrics throughout the year to have them reflect on how they are hitting those norms * Reading _Designing Groupwork_ (just ordered used online) and learning more about Complex Instruction * Make Sure Tasks are Group-Worthy * Tasks that are too rote backfire in group work and I've seen that in my own instruction. I want to be more selective and utilize group and partner world more strategically next year. * Establishing Group Roles * You guys, I am the worst at this. I read it every year and I never do it. I'm going to be doing more research and trying it....anyone have any favorite resources? * The Know/Need-to-Know/Next Steps Process for Facilitation * This gives a real structure to posing a task to students. I think it's something I try to do intuitively, but I loved the step-by-step goals and structure this gives. I also like that this encourages teachers to pre-empt the paths students may go down, making you more prepared to facilitate no matter where the lesson goes. * The Workshop Model, Including Use of Sign Up Sheets * I see myself trying to integrate workshops first into my review days to try to get some more small group instruction to students who need it. I love all the suggestions for using it during task facilitation, but it may take me some time to get there! * Solution Presentations * I want my students to be sharing their solutions more- whether that's in a small group, gallery walk, writing, videos, or actualpresentations.
* One of the things I love was "Externalizing the Enemy"- if students need to present to an external group, then you as a teacher become a resource to help them prepare. This _really_ tied to my experience working at the pharmaceutical company....my group grilled me on my presentation, but when I had to present to the entire program, I was truly prepared. I felt more comfortable being wrong in front of my group because I knew they could help me catch things I'd missed or said wrong and they'd give me the feedback I needed to make sure I ready for the "enemy." They talked a lot about how it was better to get caught by your lawyer in private interviews than to get caught in cross-examination in court. I like this idea that you're on the students' team and the added professionalism of presenting to anoutside group.
* Think about why students are presenting, how they will present, who will do the presenting, and to whom they will present * Lesson Planning Structures * Using the lesson plan templates and rubrics in the book will be a great resources for building lessonsmyself
* Make sure launching the task includes space to assess and hone student understanding of the task * Use overly structured questions and tasks to create "hint cards" to hand out as you simplify the tasks and allow (require?) students to use their question prompt cards * Set up a space in my classroom for "workshop" time* Plan the debrief
* "Make homework work for your students, not the other way around" * Plan to identify moments of brilliance, peer appreciation and encouragement, and speaking with every student * Limit the number of questions students can ask the teacher during a task- "the one question"* Assessment
* Analyze student work first, look for patterns and then aggregatedata
* Spend more time with students helping them understand why they fall in one column of a rubric. This act allows for much moremetacognition!
* Have students help develop exemplars at the beginning of the year * Shorten quizzes, add tasks to tests, allow for student discourse and collaboration on parts of the test, allow retakes for full credit * Quick Strategies/Phrases * "Teachers need to listen _to_ students' ideas rather than listening _for_ a particular response" * "Permission to be inarticulate" * "It's easy to forget the Important for the Urgent" * Full Year Planning * Choose "Anchor Problems" to assign throughout the year so they are on the calendar, even if the dates are off * I bought this tripod off Amazon so I can start recording my lessons and analyzing them myself. I will always be more critical of myself than an administrator- I'm looking forward to using this to improve my facilitation. I also liked that this has a bluetooth remote so I can record without students getting squirrely and noticing. * Practice routines more- even if it feels silly! * Plan for panels/check ins with students to see how class is working for them (Information like that is priceless and "Pizza isCheap")
Questions I Am Pondering: * How can I best assess my own facilitation skills? * How can I help students be willing to scrap a failed solution, but continue to persevere? * How can I work within the confines of my grading system and PLT to improve my assessment? * How can I be more of an agent of change in my own department? I can't recommend this book more! Mine is highlighted, written all over, dog-earred, and well-loved already. I feel ready to jump into the rest of MTBoSBlaugust and all my planning for the new schoolyear!
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 NECESSARY CONDITIONS: QUALITY TASKS Before taking my current position, I worked at a STEM magnet school. Few things put me on the course to my current pedagogy as much as my time there did and tasks were a really key part of that. I did a lot of stumbling through the dark, experimenting, and seeing what worked (and failing forward when things didn't). I often feel like the idea of implementing tasks is one of the most intimidating to teachers- how can you give students all this _time_ when this image makes us all feel so personally attacked: And math teachers aren't wrong- a poor quality task is _not_ worth the time it takes to implement it. That's what I really appreciated about the treatment of tasks in _Necessary Conditions_. Quality isking.
QUALITY TASKS
IDEAS I’M IMPLEMENTING/SAVING FOR LATER: * Tasks don't just allow for creativity- they should rely on it * It's so easy for kids to hide behind rote, low level learning in many traditional classrooms. If they can regurgitate it back to you, GREAT! They can even do it with the numbers changed?! AMAZING! But those same students often cannot think around a problem posed differently or see when their knowledge might be necessary. They think math relies on memorizing processes and then implementing those "when the question looks like this" and who in their right mind would want to study THAT? Real world problem solving involves creativity that is intrinsic to true mathematics. I want to prioritize that in myclassroom more.
* I loved this quote from the book: "If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity- to pose their own problems, make their own conjecture and discoveries, to be wrong, to be creatively frustrated, to have an inspiration, and to cobble together their own explanations and proofs- you deny them mathematics itself"(p.59)
* Two solutions from the book for this: * tasks that are primarily student generated * tasks that have a singular solution that can be arrived at through a multitude of solution methods* Curiosity is key
* Tasks should naturally spark curiosity- building engagement and buy in. I had 2 favorite suggestions from this section of the book: * SOLICIT PREDICITIONS! Start with one that is obviously too low and one that is obviously too high, then a best guess. These get students to think about what their results should and should not be- sense-making and allowing them to justify what they think. * "STEEPED IN DISSONANCE"- cognitive dissonance is such magic in the classroom. It gets kids thinking, wondering, trying to explain (or argue against!). This phrase gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling all over. You have to let kids sit in their dissonance a little to let them process when something is counterintuitive to them. * Access is non-negotiable * We talk a lot about "low floor, high ceiling" tasks in math ed and for good reason. If every single student in your class can't access the meaning of the task in some way, they have no way to be curious about it, much less get started. * One suggestion from the book for sussing out the level of access is ASKING STUDENTS TO RESTATE THE TASK ON THEIR OWN. This is so simple, but brought me back to my time at the NYC Math Lab.Kids
will explain to you what THEY understand, whether that's what you want them to or not. It's my job to find where that knowledge is anchored- what they DO know, instead of what they don't. Again, let them talk. Strategies after empathy. * Simplifying tasks can lead you down a more complex road in the end * I loved the discussion of simplifying what we ask- not only to extend access to more students, but also to open up the doors of creativity. It set off a lightbulb in me....I have been in a graduate cohort for the last 1.5 years that partnered with NASA and I couldn't figure out why so many of the NASA resources felt "off" to me. Here's an example about radiation in astronauts. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/SMIII_Problem28.pdf * It's got good bones- I like the real world applications and the use of data. But I've often felt like these feel "forced" to me- like a person said "HEY! There's math in this! I bet we can make this seem interdisciplinary!" Last year I started trying to open up my tasks more and it made a huge difference. This was my favorite- discoveringthe derivative
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I asked me kids "What's the actual instantaneous velocity of a marble at this point?" and made them figure it out. It being open ended allowed them to ideate, test ideas, fail, and learn. It wasn't just a bunch of steps they were following because I asked them to do so. They were answering a big question in a way they saw fit. My goal this year is to simplify more. * There is task inspiration everywhere! * I loved the practical suggestions the book gave for adapting existing tasks. Textbook writers take a lot of time to write application problems, but they're often too scaffolded or too contrived. These tasks- which often rely on simplifying, as discussed above- help transform a meh question into a great task: * Start with the answer * Remove the steps and sub-problems * Make the problem one of optimization (hellooooo, calculus) * Choose your own problem * Blur or withhold critical information * Move from application problems to authentic experiences * Keep fighting the good fight, even when kids fight you back! * Sometimes you just need to hear this. A student that I taught 2 years ago and who graduated this year wrote me a card at the end of the year thanking me for not giving up on teaching the way I do, even though he fought me on it daily. He said it took him being years removed from it to realize the impact it had had on his ability to think. So for any of you fighting the good fight, keep fighting! QUESTIONS I’M PONDERING: * What are good strategies for a student who really struggles with accessing at-level tasks? Especially with open enrollment in classes? * What are more resources for upper level tasks? Who wants to share some with me (hint, hint ;o) )? * What are the best ways to balance tasks with timing in an AP course, where you are already missing a month of instruction? Last day tomorrow- effective facilitation & wrap up!Posted by Mrs. G
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