I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...

It's my first time teaching circle formulas. Teaching circumference was easy: First, we went around the room and measured a bunch of cir...

In addition to doing the end-of-year creative assignment in Grade 8*, I decided that Grades 7 and 9 will do a pop-up math book for me in Jun...

I think that this diagram represents my current analysis of the separate layers of skills required in order for a student to successfully so...

I am so excited! I taught completing the square today in my "low" grade 9 class for the first time, and I decided to try a geometr...

I have just finished reading a book called Imagine: How Creativity Works ( Amazon link ), and it was very inspiring! The book's big mes...

This is a "help me!" post. I am currently away chaperoning Grade 8 kiddies in Prague during our annual school-wide trip week, so t...

I am slowly brainstorming mini PD topics for next year for my department. (Actually I've already been thinking about this on and off, bu...