Chris Rock, on teaching
I was 16 when I first performed stand-up comedy at an open mic in San Francisco. I performed (pretty terribly) about …
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Practice with a Purpose, Round 3
I’m on a quest to eliminate the boring, meaningless procedural practice from my curriculum and replace it with purposeful, meaningful, fun tasks …
Practice with a Purpose, Round 2: Make These Designs
I’m on a quest to eliminate the boring, meaningless procedural practice from my curriculum and replace it with purposeful, meaningful, fun tasks …
Practice with a Purpose, Round 1 (of many, I hope)
I’m still chewing on Dan Meyer’s talk at Asilomar. His premise was this: video game companies – in order to …
Putting Asilomar into action
A week has passed since I went to the annual California Math Council conference at Asilomar. It was my first …
Infographic Project – 2014 Edition
The last time I had kids make charts about their lives, I was teaching middle school in Virginia and it was …
Before graphing the story
“What I’m going to ask you to do is watch a video. It’s a short video, made by me. You’re …
Projectile Motion Project, Final Chapter: NASA, hire these 9th graders now!
Last I left off, an ambitious group of kids had solved this question (that they asked themselves): There’s a projectile …
My own “Grant Wiggins quest”
I’ve been having trouble with a kid we’ll call Miguel. Miguel is a sweet kid. He wants to succeed in school, …
Great, so every discipline system will inevitably traumatize or ruin students?
Just listened to This American Life from a couple weeks ago about discipline in schools (linked here). They packed a lot …
A Math Education That Matters 