My nominations for the 2009 Edublog awards Best new blog David Cox’s Questions? (Anyone who has read this blog won’t question why it is top of my list.) Best resource sharing blog Kate Nowak’s f(t) (Her resources are more than nice lessons, but...

In my school, we write narrative comments for all our students twice a year. In order to prepare for my first quarter comments, I looked back at my comments of years past. Although I don’t think my comments are exactly where they should be, I was...

So we’re off for Thanksgiving today (phew!) and after a few really great days, this two-day week was pretty much a bummer. The one fun mathematical thing I’ve worked on is a problem involving geometry. Ew, I know. But I got really into it, and it got...

I am exhilarated. The past two days in my calculus classes have taught me more about teaching (and more about student learning) than any other days this year. I am so engrossed in what’s going on that I feel like I might be at the brink of something...

Student quotation from an online survey I gave about class today: I think it went really good. Although many of us struggled, that feeling of struggling felt good. Teachers always give us equations to use or tell us what we need to know, but during...