Impractical maths
(tags: toblog math teaching education constructivism)
Spot-On: Chris Nolan: Thugs in the Newroom
“When Dowd uses female gender images to talk about male candidates - as she does with Obama and did with Al Gore - she’s associating them with weakness.” And that’s sexism, even if NY Times public editor can’t see it as such.
(tags: gender […]
10 thoughts on successful underplanting :A Way to Garden
Need to rethink my crabapple underplanting, the vinca seems to be smothering one young tree.
(tags: gardening landscaping underplanting plants)
Help? Multivariable Calculus! « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere
I’m going to be teaching a similar class: AP Calculus BC, to kids who already took a year of calculus.
(tags: teaching […]
It’s been an intense spring and summer of rethinking my career and preparing for something altogether different. It came together this week: I accepted a half-time math teaching job at a Denver high school and I also received news that I passed Colorado’s math content exam for teachers.
I don’t know whether I’ll blog about teaching […]
Prison Trained K9 Program
Not ready for a new dog but when I am, will consider this: homeless/castaway dogs trained by prisoners. Recommended by my hairstylist who adopted a rat terrier from program.
(tags: dogs pets)
Book Review - ‘One to Nine - The Inner Life of Numbers,’ by Andrew Hodges - Review - NYTimes.com
“‘One to Nine’ offers a different model for teaching math — discursive rather than linear, topical rather than abstract and remote, and, above all, manically energetic rather than repetitive and plodding.”
(tags: math teaching ideas books learning toread)
Annals of Medicine: The Itch: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
“The account of perception that’s starting to emerge is what we might call the ‘brain’s best guess’ theory of perception: perception is the brain’s best guess about what is happening in the outside world.”
(tags: neurology itching health medicine psychology perception)
disambiguity - » Some unformed thoughts […]
Preoccupations: Kayaking
A really great overview of Shirky’s thought, with lots of links to explore.
(tags: media shirky books social-web)
Pet Loss Support Page
Goodbye Sally. I miss you so much.
(tags: pets grief loss)
Harlem School Aces Math Test : NPR
head of school says the secret is teachers
(tags: teaching math testing charterschools education)
Village Academies | Educational Program
“Discipline at Village Academies is not what we do in reaction to misbehavior; it is what we do to train students to behave properly in the first place.”
(tags: charterschools discipline teaching education)
The curse […]
WebQuest.Org: Home
“A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.”
(tags: teaching learning education web edtech)
The New York Times Learning Network
(tags: teaching learning education web news)
How to make “timeouts” less like bar fights. - By Alan E. Kazdin - Slate Magazine
“Attention feeds a […]
