I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...

For some reason, 2012 has been a year of much personal growth for me. Now that I'm finally on Christmas break, I thought I'd take a ...

Sometimes I see teachers get into confrontational conversations with students, where the tension escalates very fast for no reason because t...

I randomly copied two 7-by-7 KenKen puzzles yesterday from my book of KenKen puzzles edited by Will Shortz. (I ordered it as a teaching reso...

I have been teaching logarithm for a few years now. Each year, no matter how I approach it and how exploratory I make the whole thing to be...

Today a random 11th-grader asked me what the difference is between zero and negative zero. He sounded so sure that there was a difference, t...

I am reading parts of John Hattie's Visible Learning for Teachers , which has some real gems. Since this book reads dense like a textboo...

It's so nice to just slow down before the semester test and to review everything we have learned. It's like taking in a deep breath,...