I don't ask what's wrong anymore. They usually tell me anyway. The stories you hear as a teacher...they break your heart.
We are finally going to upgrade to common core books in my HS. We are trying to choose a series to purchase. I can't believe that I can find...
If only Algebra 2 really covered all those topics. It's primarily a review of lines and the intro to quadratics. It would be awesome if we could...
Required? Not exactly. But if they aren't, the responsibility always falls in the teacher. You'll also find yourself with a greater amount of...
It's an "honors" class. It seems the state had set a % for how many students we "should" have in honors and we need to keep those numbers up....
I can't get my mind around my precalculus students. They are doing SO bad! I think they are all cheating on HW, not studying, and have given...
Does 2 hours and 25 minutes a day all year sound like a lot?
38??? OMG! Do you have multiple levels of Algebra 1? We have 3. Honors, Academic, and Fundamentals. Our honors are getting really big...
I'm assuming solving for variables in equations? Graphing lines?
What math skills are a must have for High School Physics?
What math topics/skills are necessary for chemistry?
Ugh...statistics were off handedly thrown out in a meeting I was in today. The kind that really makes you say "really???". They didn't sound...
That is true, but a graduation exam that the scoring is done in a way that not everyone can pass seems a bit unfair to me. I'm not 100% sure...
So why is it ok for states to do this for high school exit exams?
Would anyone think it unfair to use the average(mean) scores for a test to set a passing score? My father talked of professors using a bell...
Student says, "It's not that I don't know how to do the problem, I just have trouble remembering how to do it."
i only give multiple choice tests for midterms and finals, but I can run a tally of all the wrong responses. If there's a lot of the same ones, I...
My school is looking into a very different way to run Lunches and periods. They are asking for some help to get together ideas for math classes...
That's a great idea. I'm tired of always putting the desks back together after my senior srp(study hall) has moved them.
Dealing with complex fractions held up half of the class for a week when we started integration. We've tried to increase the number of students...
