So yesterday we got the representative from Math Mates to come in an talk about the use of math mates. In attendance - Regina, Heidi, Greg, John, and Jenn. The discussion lead to only consider the Mauve (or purple) books. This was for two reasons 1) Simplicity of order, sharing experiences, and it's our first year and KISS is a good motto, 2) after reviewing the higher level books it seems more like teachers would spend more time teaching the topics of the questions which would take from our curriculum. About 800 purple books were ordered for the 9th and 10th grade teachers. There was a comment about new students registering after the holiday weekend and we might need to order more.
The current suggestion for use is each student will get a page for the week (preferably kept in the classroom) and with 33 problems the student will try to complete 5 to 7 problems per day as a daily warm-up. Please address questions and comments you might have.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
Cool blogs
At Dave TarH2O's suggestion, I check out let's play math blog which has a good post about writing to learn math http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/writing-to-learn-math/. There are great links on this post of was to get students reflective about math by writing.
I also came across another cool math blog called Math Notations with a good post for Alg 9A teachers http://mathnotations.blogspot.com/2007/08/mean-median-of-arithmetic-sequences-on.html.
Also I found a site that can accomodate equations in blogs. Check out http://texify.com/
Happy blogging
I also came across another cool math blog called Math Notations with a good post for Alg 9A teachers http://mathnotations.blogspot.com/2007/08/mean-median-of-arithmetic-sequences-on.html.
Also I found a site that can accomodate equations in blogs. Check out http://texify.com/
Happy blogging
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
finally a class blog
summer is over and it's time to focus (god help us), stay on task, and be productive. Check out this page for my actual class blog,Gee-Im-A-Tree any comments or feedback is appreciated, I plan on using this as an extra credit, 1st day HW. Let's see if we I can get the students to comment, feel free to share some summer stories too! Oh and check out the pic on the bottom, I thinks it's kinda cool how it shows how math subjects grow from others. good luck as we start the year.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Curriculum
Most of us will be looking at revised curriculum tomorrow morning. Please let this be a forum for input and collaboration so that we can make this better. Please review the curriculum and assessments and let me know if something doesn't seem to work. Jen S. and I can at least explain some of the factors that contributed to our thinking, but the more discussions the better. Please keep the assessments secure and try to follow the pacing as best as you can.
For the principles class, I have some suggestions for resources, but some of the veteran teachers probably have many more. Let's share these ideas and ask for what we want. There may be an opportunity to get resources through the director of curriculum if we can agree on what we want. Please stop by this week to check out my copies and post your comments here.
For Algebra, there will probably be a revised curriculum within a week or two with mostly formatting changes. Same with Geometry. Keep in mind that the Geometry curriculum as written assumes the revised algebra curriculum as precurser which is not necessarily the case. My guess is that the students may need more review/reteaching of prior geometry concepts and skills, so feel out your students with pre-assessments and communicate with everyone else as much as possible to make sure we all stay on the same page. Thanks in advance for the communication and happy planning.
For the principles class, I have some suggestions for resources, but some of the veteran teachers probably have many more. Let's share these ideas and ask for what we want. There may be an opportunity to get resources through the director of curriculum if we can agree on what we want. Please stop by this week to check out my copies and post your comments here.
For Algebra, there will probably be a revised curriculum within a week or two with mostly formatting changes. Same with Geometry. Keep in mind that the Geometry curriculum as written assumes the revised algebra curriculum as precurser which is not necessarily the case. My guess is that the students may need more review/reteaching of prior geometry concepts and skills, so feel out your students with pre-assessments and communicate with everyone else as much as possible to make sure we all stay on the same page. Thanks in advance for the communication and happy planning.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Summer work
This is a cross post between global learners and the achs math technology blog at http://principianteglobal.blogspot.com/.
I wanted to share some of the things that I worked on over the summer. One of the most universal things I wanted was practice with google docs where I typed in the question prompts of the Bloom's taxonomy. The document is published at http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddz7t4gx_4d9d68s&hl=en_US. My intention is to be able to print, cut, shuffle, or display in my room and have the students use these and try to progress up this chart (or down depending on your orientation.) Let me know if this it is helpful to have this typed and if it is helpful in the classroom.
I have also worked on my website http://schoolweb.acsd14.k12.co.us/rbstewar/index.htm (which has my voki), my blog for my classes http://adams14stewart.blogspot.com/ the blog for the math department to communicate the use of this technology http://achsmathtech.blogspot.com/ and the achs new teacher wiki at http://achsnewteachers.wikispaces.com/.
I have also spent some obscene amount of hours on my new favorite site, www.cafemom.com, which is like myspace for moms. After playing with it for a while, I feel like I get it! Ah Hah! The web 2.0 and social networking! It is smaller than myspace so I can get my head around it and quickly got addicted. So, I like to think those hours were/are well spent in being able to relate to my students.
I wanted to share some of the things that I worked on over the summer. One of the most universal things I wanted was practice with google docs where I typed in the question prompts of the Bloom's taxonomy. The document is published at http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddz7t4gx_4d9d68s&hl=en_US. My intention is to be able to print, cut, shuffle, or display in my room and have the students use these and try to progress up this chart (or down depending on your orientation.) Let me know if this it is helpful to have this typed and if it is helpful in the classroom.
I have also worked on my website http://schoolweb.acsd14.k12.co.us/rbstewar/index.htm (which has my voki), my blog for my classes http://adams14stewart.blogspot.com/ the blog for the math department to communicate the use of this technology http://achsmathtech.blogspot.com/ and the achs new teacher wiki at http://achsnewteachers.wikispaces.com/.
I have also spent some obscene amount of hours on my new favorite site, www.cafemom.com, which is like myspace for moms. After playing with it for a while, I feel like I get it! Ah Hah! The web 2.0 and social networking! It is smaller than myspace so I can get my head around it and quickly got addicted. So, I like to think those hours were/are well spent in being able to relate to my students.
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