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Teaching the Properties of Addition
Here are some fresh off the press resources that I’ve created for teaching the properties of addition. One of them is an infographic that I created using Piktochart (I pay for the Pro Version) and the other is a new paper-based game that I’ve affectionately called ASCII for Associative Commutative Identity Inverse. I plan to…
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Traverse City Beach Bums Baseball
While at the MCTM conference in Traverse City, MI, I went to 3-game series at Wuerfel Park between the Traverse City Beach Bums and the Windy City Thunderbolts. Before this summer, I hadn’t even heard of the Traverse City Beach Bums. I know, it may seem a little strange, but who really follows the Frontier…
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Indian Mathematicians Library Fair
Since I am new at my college, I was told that it is expected that all new faculty members are on a committee. Apparently I found out that message a little too late because when I asked if there were any committees that were still open to join, there were none except for the college’s…
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MCTM Conference Wrap-Up and Evaluation
This year I went to the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) Summer Conference and Institute in Traverse City, MI. It was my first year attending the statewide conference and my first time ever driving to Traverse City. Overall, the conference was a good and very profitable experience. I learned a lot from the…
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The Search for a New Learning Management System
We use ANGEL at my college and I’m not happy about it. I bet you’re not happy with your Learning Management System (LMS), either. I don’t need to give you my list of grievances, but I’m going to anyway: · When I log-in to ANGEL, there’s a ‘What’s New’ panel that shows you what is…
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My Experience at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Note: This was a trip that I field trip that I took my Math For Education students on during the Winter 2012 semester. The original reason for the visit is that we were promised that there would be a display about African American Mathematicians at the museum. However, that display was not there. My students…
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Jon Oaks 