Projectile Motion Project, Pt 6: Untangling on another level
I recently wrote about a group of high-flying kids who blew my mind with their work on this question that they chose: There’s …
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HOLY !*@$^%, I SCORED A GOAL!!!!!
DISCLAIMER: Certainly, if this blog had any readership at all, I would’ve gotten at least some pushback on my last post that …
Attempt at Growth Mindset: Soccer
My last short stint at soccer (below) ended two decades ago, due to, according to my mom, “too many people kicking …
Projectile Motion Project, Pt. 5: Solving the Unsolvable
In my last post, a group of ambitious students had just figured out how to restrict the domain of a …
Why Do Americans Stink At Math?
I’ve now read the New York Times Magazine article called “Why Do Americans Stink at Math?” twice. The whole article is …
Projectile Motion Project, Pt. 4: MIND = BLOWN
I left off last post asking how one could restrict the domain and range of the graph on the left to look …
Projectile Motion Project, Pt. 3: Broken Tech = Great Math Challenge
Full disclosure: What I’m about to share is not typical of 9th grade students in Algebra 1. My school offers …
Projectile Motion Project, Pt. 2: The Expected Results
Let me go back a step and talk about why I do this project on projectile motion. In my class, …
Projectile Motion Project, Pt. 1
So I did this project with my 9th grade algebra students in 2013-2014 called Projectile Motion. As the name might …
Water Line
I included a lesson plan, student work and analysis in my application for a Math for America fellowship. The lesson I chose involved …
A Math Education That Matters 