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The Iron Butt Rally project is done, I think. I will have my Math I freshmen look at it tomorrow, our late start/professional development/short classes day. They can ask questions then; hopefully I can get everything clarified. (Another big thank you to Fawn (@fawnpnguyen) for broadening my horizons into the world of endurance motorcycle riding.) They […]
August 29, 2015
I haven’t written for a couple of weeks. This is largely because I don’t have any lessons to share. Nice way to start the year: out for training one or two days a week for the first month. I’m supposed to have another day this week, but I’ve already cancelled my requested substitute. I’m not […]
August 16, 2015
I was out Thursday for training. I read the substitute’s report. I was mad at my students…for about 10 minutes, then I was puzzled. It is only the 2nd week of school and I don’t know them very well yet. But there are two sides to every story, so Friday was spent listening to my kiddos. […]
August 13, 2015
I haven’t blogged this week. It isn’t personal…my life is slightly crazy right now: My kitchen is in my living room (it is being rebuilt) Monday was my daughter’s Open House (obviously we went) Tonight is my school’s Open House (obviously I’ll be there) In Math I: Monday is the District HS’ PD, so the […]
August 9, 2015
Week one down. Day 5 of 180 down. Or, as people who apparently hate the jobs OR people who love counting things (I have long suspected is a math person at heart, no matter how much they try to bury it deep down)…175 days to go! This week was way more fun than I thought it would […]
August 7, 2015
Math 1 Day 3 of youcubed.org’s Week of Inspirational Math was my favorite of all of them! I interacted with them almost all day. I won’t be doing the last two days of it though; I have four days of training coming up this month, so I want to get the students started in more […]
August 6, 2015
Math 1 Today the students did Youcubed.org’s Week of Inspirational Math (Day 2). The materials are available for free access if you register. The idea (for me) of the day was that there are many ways to organize a number, and finding the magic number symbol (for example: 3) is not always necessary. It is […]
August 4, 2015
I wrote about how I wanted Day 1 to go in my head here. So…how close was reality to the voices in my head? Mostly good. The best plan that worked all day: @GWaddellNVHS’ high fives. My hallmate (the physics teacher was doing it with me) and I got complimented by the brand-new (as in: we […]
August 2, 2015
Just in case the first day of school is a madhouse (no way!), I decided to post my plans. Mostly so I can have the illusion of control, because everything is going to go perfectly! Actually, I want to look back to see if what I said I would do actually came true. It’s sort of like […]
August 1, 2015
After two teaher workdays, I have my room set up. Students arrive on Monday. This is the view from the middle of my room: I really did take pictures of the rest of the room, but then I managed to delete them off of my phone before I got them to my laptop. But that’s cool; […]
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August 30, 2015
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