I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...

(cross-listed on medium.com) I teach high-school math, grades 9 through 12, with classes ranging from Geometry to Calculus. In the...

My goal for 2016 is to always respond to a potential conflict by killing it with kindness. I had a situation in class today which I had hand...

We did a really ambitious activity early this year in Geometry. We slowed down an optimization problem for start-of-year Grade 9 students, i...

This is a rough brain dump after the recent end of school term, but I am going to try to stay coherent and helpful. 1. This past school t...

This year, particularly after reading Thanks for the Feedback , I am making a conscious effort to gather on-going feedback from my students,...

This year, I have made some exciting changes to my classes. 1. I thought long and hard about how I do math journals. Last year, I got ravi...

Hi, blogosphere! I thought I'd check in quickly. This school year, I really wanted to make the focus to be on helping kids to transition...