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10 Potentially Helpful Resources
Here is the most recent set of helpful resources that I have sort of stumbled upon out of well over 200 hundred that I’ve looked at today: 1. Broad Texter – This is a service that allows you to create a group so that your students can join so that they can receive text messages from…
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Teaching the Unit Circle
This is simply another consequence of my poking around the web, and although I haven’t taught trigonometry since last summer, I would consider using either of these ideas in the future: 1. Touch Trigonometry – This is an interactive trigonometry graph and circle featuring the six basic trig functions. I wasn’t a fan at first because…
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Personalized Learning Environment
I always get frustrated when I see articles like the Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Education because I don't have to look at them all. I'm probably already using most of them already. Some of them actually stink really bad. Some of them require a fee. Well, you're in luck! Since I'm taking a…
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GCF, LCM, and Order of Operations
In my Basic Mathematics class we just finished discussing the order of operations, and students always seem to have a problem with it, especially when division comes before multiplication (Sally has always told them otherwise). Today we discussed finding the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) and Least Common Multiple (LCM), another topic that students sometimes seem…
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Jeopardy! ‘Body Count’ Category.
For some reason I happened to see Jeopardy on 1/11/11 and I found the category ‘Body Count’ really intriguing. When you read the clues, I think you’ll find it intriguing as well: 400 – Chambers of the heart squared 800 – Usual number of ribs divided by 8 1200 – Pairs of chromosomes times 2…
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Helpful Links for Teaching Calculus
Here is a list of helpful links that I compiled while teaching from “Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions,” 5th Ed. by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards last summer. These aren’t necessarily textbook specific, either. Honestly, although it was just last summer, I was sort of still back in the dark ages and hadn’t yet made the jump into…
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