In my 17 years of working as a math teacher, I get the privilege of meeting some really special teenagers. Today I met one! AP Calculus AB teachers and students: this 16-year-old is taking the class and creating tutorial/solution videos for her classmates so that they can all rise together. I commend Elizabeth for her […]
Category Archives: Other Math Ideas
FlashCards
Math is such a fundamental skill that’s integral in almost everything. In fact, I don’t know where math isn’t; Is math the ether? 🙂 So, I programmed a 2-minute flashcard system (still in the works, and getting better), an arithmetic flashcard website for my two elementary-aged kids: https://ezgraphing.com/claraMath/ If you wanna give it a whirl, […]
We owe it to the ones who’ve helped us.
The older I get, the more I appreciate the ones who have helped me along the way. One of the first memories I have about math came in 1st grade when my father showed me a trick about subtraction; in fact, I teach my students this technique when I notice there a delay in his/her […]