Next week we are starting the logic part of Geometry. Thanks to Direct TV ads, everyone has seen syllogisms. So my plan is to have kids make their own. Honestly, I wanted to see this – I made it as a project, but I can’t get anyone to do projects, they all want book-based work. Our principal is an English teacher, and he wants everyone to do a writing project. So I plan to use this as my writing project. And video-creation project. I hope thereby to avoid the usual whining about why we have to write in Math.
We shall see.
Last week we had the first test using Webwork. I was introduced to this by a math professor. The advantage for me was that it gets students used to working on complex problems from the computer, writing out their work. Since we’re going to have to do that next year for common core, ti seems like a good plan to use this format. The grading is easy, retakes are easy (for me!) and my students liked that I included the feature that they could grade their work and then fix their errors.
I also see that the calculators for smarter balanced are available to use, so I will try and get my students to use these too.
In the last week, we have had 2 teachers collapse with stress-related symptoms. Somehow this has to stop!
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