I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...

Our school had our annual "Curriculum Night" tonight. The parents followed their kids' schedules to come meet teachers, each f...

Towards the end of the summer I was brainstorming this idea of teaching Calculus backwards , starting with applications and graphing calcula...

This blog post is my contribution to Mission #1 of Exploring the MathTwitterBlogosphere . I already write a lot about what physically happ...

My German teacher had a simple but very effective trick for organizing papers: make copies on colored paper, whenever it is a handout that y...

One of the wonderful things of teaching in different schools is that you get to learn from different teachers. My current school has a site-...

We are in the thick of it now, the part of the semester when I see how kids handle setbacks and challenges. This is one of the ways I really...

The second full week of school has been a very meaty one. The kids seemed very eager to learn after the first few unstructured socializing/c...