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Teaching Signed Numbers with Zombies, Ghostbusters, and Night Vision Goggles
Here are three new application problems that I came up with while teaching signed numbers this morning. Remember, I came up with these on the spot, during class. So, just imagine that the entire class is paying attention to each of these problems as I am writing them, trying to figure out what is going…
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Regression on the Calculator
Here are a few notes on regression and other stuff I’ve noticed over the past week: 1. Remember my calculator post from last week? Well, some of my Finite Math students were still having a little bit of trouble using the calculator to do Regression on the calculator. This website on Cubic Regression seems to…
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Thousands of FREE Learning Resources
I have heard about these websites from various places throughout the past week. I hijacked a few of the descriptions, but I would rather give a hijacked description rather than an inaccurate description. 1. CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.…
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Interactive Demonstration Tools
Here are a few highlights of some of the Interactive Demonstration Tools that I have come across in the past few weeks: 1. All Interactive Whiteboard Resources – Although the applets on this website are designed to be friendly for those classrooms with Smartboards and the like, I see no reason why these applets can't…
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Joliprint, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Teaching Measurement
There have been so many times when I have wanted to print something from the web, but have had a very hard time getting it to print out correctly. Joliprint is a resource that will definitely solve (most) of your problems. For example, the other day, I printed this Convert, then Compete blog post from the Chronicle…
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Tech Resources for Teachers: Backchanneling and more!
Over the past few months I have been trying to totally emerge myself into the world of Instructional Technology. I have seen so many resources and as we all know, they eventually become repetitive. I hate reading a list of "The Top Best New 100 Resources for Teachers" and half of them I already know…
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