a humbling experience: a lesson goes badly (students are confused). you replan a different lesson with the same learning objective for the afternoon classes. students are still confused.
I hardly use this site any more, but in some personal news for my friends on here-- I'm pregnant, due in September, and planning on taking a one-year mat leave/sabbatical. 🐣
I want students to be able to justify that vertical angles are congruent (which is also their intro to mathematical proof). Any ideas on activities to scaffold this? #mtbos#iteachmath#geomchat
Our district PD today was a 3 hour video of a keynote given at some conference
and before you ask, of course this was an outside edu consulting company that provided this "training"
truly comical levels of phoning it in lmao
Mr. Pickles, a critically endangered species of tortoise at the Houston Zoo, finally became a father at the age of 90. He and his partner, Mrs. Pickles, welcomed three tortoise hatchlings: Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeño.
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ALT A small radiated tortoise hatchling sits on a person’s fingers. Photo credit: Jackelin Reyna/Houston Zoo
The "fun" question of the day was "how much money would it take for you to eat a whole piece of paper?"
One kid said, "I'd do it for free" and then proceeded to slowly eat an entire sheet of printer paper during class. I've never laughed harder lmao
for those who have used the @statsmedic skittles lesson, do you give each kid a sample of 5 random skittles (repeated colors ok) or each kid exactly one of each color? Trying to figure out which makes more sense with the conditions