Category Archives: Teaching

Warming Up Algebra Support with Balloon Invaders

October 15, 2008 – 2:56 pm

My algebra support students do better with basic algebra than with arithmetic, so I’ve been drilling them on their times tables. I don’t want them to miss a problem because they think 6 x 7 = 48 or 9 x 12 = 96.
Today I started them off with a multiplication game online. We have a […]

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“I Refuse to Bore Myself”

October 9, 2008 – 6:58 pm

That’s English teacher Mr. Lefferts of Kent Denver School, in the latest edition of The Sun Devil’s Advocate, quoting (I gather) former Kent English teacher Mr. Frechette. “I refuse to bore myself.” Indeed!
I went into teaching for a variety of reasons, one major one being that I find learning and knowledge endlessly entertaining. My life […]

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Wikified Lectures

September 25, 2008 – 6:36 pm

As a new teacher I often feel like the proverbial blind squirrel, wandering around hoping I run into a nut. Today I ran into a nut, a really big one! And it tasted yummy.
Busy writing finals, which take me a long time to write for various reasons, I realized I had little time to prepare […]

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