I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...

A recent incident has stirred up some feelings for me regarding cultural sensitivity in schools. As a teacher, generally I feel responsible ...

This week has been epic. It was a week when I tried to do something for everyone. It was my last week with my Grade 12 IB students (since th...

I have to say that as a classroom orchestrator, my weakness is in setting up DRAMA in my lessons. I do, however, put on a great big show eve...

Maybe this is news to you, or maybe it is not, but Fawn Nguyen has a really nice blog about math teaching and miscellanies. I am kind of a ...

Valuable lessons my mom taught me when I was younger: * Sometimes she would call me from work, leave me a string of numbers (this was before...

I am very much enjoying the itty-bitty geometry in Grade 7! We have been working a lot with hands-on investigations to develop concepts arou...

After our successful intro to exponents in Grade 8 , I feel that the students can mostly articulate how to simplify exponents and why, and t...