FRQ Practice Ideas for Next Year
It’s that time of year again…my seniors have gone, I find myself with a bit more unstructured time during the school day, and my mind is flooded with ideas to try for next year and things to improve. I typically use my increased free time to look up ideas, read math blogs, and brainstorm alternate approaches, and I always find this process exciting and hopeful. Here is one of my AP Calculus goals for next year.
More Radicals - Dealing with Extraneous Solutions
In this post, I discuss how I introduce extraneous solutions and how I have students explore them more with graphing calculators (although Desmos could be used as well). Resources are included.
Find Your Radical Error
A couple weeks ago, I gave my students a worksheet on things related to radicals. As I went through the sheets, I noticed a LOT of common errors; errors that I knew they shouldn’t be making. It could have been due to carelessness or rushing in some cases, but either way I wanted an effective way to address the errors. I decided to create a “Fix the Error” worksheet based directly on the errors I saw. Here is the original problem set and the “Find Your Error” worksheet, which worked out really well in class!
Trying Bingo + Open Middle for the win
Open Middle is a great website to find engaging, open-ended, critical thinking tasks for students, especially those who finish work early. Tomorrow I am trying out Bingo for the in my class FIRST time ever! Here’s my Bingo sheet.
Bring Back the Discontinued NCTM MT journal!
Reminiscing on the glorious “Mathematics Teacher,” NCTM’s discontinued monthly magazine dedicated to high school math teachers, as I browse through a box full of these magazines from 2009 - 2012.
Making Visuals with Graphfree
I cannot believe that I have been teaching for 11 years and it wasn’t until this month that I found out about Graphfree, an incredible free website for teachers to make textbook quality, beautiful graphs.