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Tag Archives: questioning
Deconstruction: What you don’t say is what you do
I came across the document copied at the end of this post in the faculty room this morning. I glanced down it and, perhaps prompted by a book I’m reading now (From the Ruins of Empire), I began to comment to … Continue reading
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A Modest Proposal 2018
I asked my Differential Equations class (mostly seniors, some juniors) to review what I felt the course content (as opposed to the course process/pedagogy) had been this semester. It was a list of “things they should be able to do” … Continue reading
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Assess the Essence
(and a second session from the 5.25 inservice) With the move to get rid of “traditional exams” or “final tests,” there has been an exodus to “projects,” which term seems to mean many different things to many different people. Final … Continue reading
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Student choice, teacher enjoyment
(At our inservice today, I presented two sessions. Here are the notes I used for the first one) Power of Choice We all like choices, but as students get older, it can be harder to manage the process of giving … Continue reading
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How math theorems really get discovered–maybe
This specific post is in response to a query about a derivation of what’s commonly known as Green’s Theorem that I had my MVC class work through, but the general ideas are applicable to a very wide range of ideas/theorems/developments … Continue reading
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Teaching 2015 (review)
Below is a set of notes to myself at the start of the last school year. The start of this year seems an appropriate time to review them. This document is an attempt to put together some things I know … Continue reading
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Thinking mathematically
In an email exchange involving several former students (now at college) and a colleague, I said, This discussion reminds me that one of the great challenges as a math teacher is to combine the necessary (at least in our current curriculum) skill-set … Continue reading
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“Close reading” aka “attention to detail”
A number of years ago, a colleague of mine from KIPP came to visit one of my classes (senior English) and was amazed that we spent an entire class period on one paragraph (I think it was a Borges story … Continue reading
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“The right questions”
Zizek (a contemporary philosopher in Slovenia) has an interesting video clip (quite short) that you can find here on the importance of asking good questions. While I think a better approach would be to talk about asking “good questions” as opposed … Continue reading
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Self-reliance
After having listened to 10th and 11th graders running for student council for next year, I am struck by two things. The first is that as a whole, they tend to be more creative without being offensive than they used … Continue reading →