Parent teacher conferences were last night. While the tone of the conversations was the same, the information I was able to convey to parents was very different. In the past, when students were struggling, I’d say something along the lines of “they...

Yesterday I had a sub for my last two classes of the day. My lesson plans were for the most part the same as they would have been had I been in class – a form of “In your groups compare your results from last night’s assignment and then begin working...

Last week we went into the lab to play do an investigation with Sketchpad. The task was to create various polygons, measure the angles in each, and calculate the sum of the interior angles. They were then to formulate a “rule” for the sum of the angles...

We were recently going to do an activity that involved finding the formula for the sum of the interior angles in a polygon. This required that they know that a few terms beforehand. I wanted a quick way to check their prior knowledge. I didn’t want to...