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Happy Grading, Everyone!

For anyone in teaching, grading is probably one of the most time consuming things to be done, especially if the class sizes are large, which they inevitably are due to shrinking budget sizes, etc. So, to celebrate all of the grading that will be done by teachers in the next few weeks with finals rolling…

Using Wolfram | Alpha Effectively

When I was helping some of my students review for their final exam tonight, I was reminded about Wolfram|Alpha, and how to effectively use it in the classroom. One of my students was trying a factoring problem, and he all of a sudden started typing it into his computer. I asked him what he was…

Thoughts on Teaching Statistics

There was a tweet in my feed this morning that simply said: "Now that's how you present statistics http://pop.is/24bos". I'm glad that I took this tweet seriously, because the next 5 minutes or so of watching Hans Rosling talk about the "Joy of Stats" was a real treat. I can only imagine what some of these…

Pre-Algebra and Algebra Resources

A few months ago I had students in my Basic College Math class create a game about fractions. One student created “Fraction Bingo”. I decided to search the web to see if there were printable bingo sheets available. Well, there were, along with some other activities that I found on the same website from Holt,…

Factoring Activities and More

A few weeks ago a colleague of mine was in need of an activity for Factoring. He was ahead of his pacing chart and wanted something to fill up some class time with. I referred him towww.ilovemath.org, which has hundreds of free activities to download. Here is a list of a few that I have…

Using TED in the Classroom

There were a couple of points this semester when I could hardly talk and needed to fill a few extra minutes of class time to give my voice a little rest. I have heard about TED in the past, but hadn't really thought about how I could use it in the classroom. Well, I tried…