Ramblings of a HS Math Teacher. I use College Board released AP items often in my Statistics course. The problems are aligned to clearly-stated goals, and the solutions provide insight not only into the grading of AP questions but also allow students to study well-articulated explanations. You can visit the College Board Statistics. As a formative assessment tool in AP Stats. The conversation were rich, and the te.

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Thoughts on Transformations in Math Education. A couple weeks ago, I was discussing ratio tasks, including. With a colleague who reminded me of a numeracy task from Peter Liljedahl. Three friends, Chris, Jeff, and Marc, go shopping for shoes. The store is having a. Buy two pairs, get one pair free.

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How far away is he from the hole? What information would be useful to figure this out? The students need to know the dimensions of whatever triangle the announcer used to make his calculation. However, instead of immediately giving two sides and an unknown, I think it would be neat to allow the kids to use a little reasoning. Draw a different triangle whe.

Encouraging students with disabilities to think deeply about mathematics has always been one of the goals of this blog. But since the audience of this blog is mainly teachers, the goal is really to encourage teachers to encourage students with disabilities to think deeply about mathematics. This guy! Which discusses warning signs of in.

Tales from 8th grade math and occasional rants about poor grammar. Thursday, August 6, 2015. This week marked the end of a chapter of my life- my time as an 8th grade math and French teacher at an amazing middle school where my teaching career began. On Tuesday, my e-mail and message board access switched over to my new school. I spent all day Wednesday and half of Thursday finishing the gargantuan task of cleaning out my classroom. Tuesday, July 28, 2015.