Thoughtful Thursday: Conundrums
Matt During distance learning Astra school created a series of one to two minute Conundrum videos that describe a scenario and presents different…
Teaching Math
Thoughtful Thursdays – What Makes it Unique?
Thoughtful Thursdays currently consist of two activities: “What makes it Unique?” and “Conundrums”. Both of these activities are designed to help students…
Team Building Tuesday
Team Building Tuesday Introduction Team Building Tuesday basically consists of an activity that takes place during the first 5 to 10 minutes…
Rector’s SY 2019/20 Amazing IM 3 Classes
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ASSESSING FOR GROWTH IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN RANKING
We have a formative assessment every Friday. One week it’s a team test and the next it’s an individual test. The team…
PUTTING AN i IN TEAM
All of my students are in randomly selected teams all of the time with the exception of individual assessments. This allows the…
Building Math Teams
When math teams are working amazing math gets done. There are times where it almost seems like I’ve gone down the rabbit…
The fight for Mathematical Justice
Over 97% of my 11th and 12th graders have been failed by our “Survival of the Fittest” math education system.
Becoming Super
When I first started teaching as a 20 something living on a tropical island I was decidedly not a super teacher. I…
Gamification of Math Teams
Last year I was lucky enough to work on a research project with an amazing teacher Karen Kurcz. We developed a system…