Restructuring Algebra

I have been taking Angela Watson's 40 hour teacher workweek course and I love it!  This month we are encouraged to consider jobs that st...

First Day of School Plans with #SundayFunday Numbers About Me : For the past several years I have enjoyed doing a "Numbers ab...

Goals with #SundayFunday I am expecting to have four different preps this year.  I am used to having three, so this is causing me som...

Here are my basic plans for Algebra 1.  I have four sections of this.  Mostly freshmen, but some older students as well.  However, I basical...

Well Andy (@rockychat3) was nice enough to share his entire year's worth of plans for his block Algebra course, and he said he was inter...

I finally got to spend some quality time in my classroom this afternoon.  It was just a couple hours, but I felt SO productive.  After clean...

So I have a bunch of random thoughts about the beginning of the year bouncing around in my head, and I need to get them out because I won...

Well, when Julie (@jreulbach) tweeted about posting a blog by Friday, I thought that sounded easy enough, but it is 11pm on Friday night and...

I LOVE meeting my future students!  I do a lot of things to help them feel welcomed and to try to provide a smooth transition to high school...

After my Group Work Working Group morning session, I knew for sure that I wanted to try Talking Points in my classroom.  After a lengthy twi...

I know it's not Monday, but Tuesday is only a day late (or 6 days early), so I'm going to call this a #Made4Math Monday post anyway ...

I've been having trouble processing #TMC14, so I turned to twitter: And I was astonished at the results.  In our morning sess...

This morning I saw Steph Reilly's post about Checklists and Error Analysis .  Both are genius ideas (please, go read and I'm gratefu...

Well, this morning on twitter @druinok inspired this post.  It really is #105things, but I simplified them into categories to help me feel b...