Monthly Archives: October 2010
Pushing back
Seth Godin has a lot of good things to say in this short blog post, such as: When a professor assigns you to send a blogger a list of vague and inane interview questions (“1. How did you get started … Continue reading
Questions about an enVisionMATH worksheet (part 2)
Here’s another question about the same enVisionMATH worksheet we first met yesterday. Take a look at this section, and think about the mental processes you’d use to answer each of these problems: Got it? Now, let me zoom out a … Continue reading
Filed under Early education, Education, enVisionMATH, Math, Teaching
Questions about an enVisionMATH worksheet (part 1)
The 6-year old had Fall Break last week, so no homework and no enVisionMATH-blogging for me. Tonight, however, she brought home a new worksheet for her weekly homework, and a couple of things caught my eye. I thought I’d throw … Continue reading
Filed under Early education, Education, enVisionMATH, Math, Teaching
This week in screencasting: The polar express
It’s been a little quiet on the screencasting front lately, but in the next couple of weeks my colleague teaching Calculus III will be hitting material for which I volunteered to provide some content: namely, using MATLAB to visualize some … Continue reading
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Filed under Calculus, Engineering, Math, MATLAB, Teaching, Technology
Do you re-test?
If you give a major, timed assessment (test, exam, etc.) and nearly all of your students do poorly on it — as in, really poorly, 3/4-of-the-class-failed-it poorly — do you give a re-test and let them try it again? Or … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Grading, Higher ed, Life in academia, Teaching
Course evaluations: The more, the merrier
This post at ProfHacker reminded me to write about something I’m trying this semester in my calculus classes (the only freshman-level class I have right now). I’m giving not one but four course evaluations during the semester. I’ve given midterm … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Higher ed, Life in academia, Profhacks, Tenure
Friday random 10
Here’s some music for the end of the week, straight off the iPhone set to random shuffle: Daughters (John Mayer, Heavier Things) Custard Pie (Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti) Far East Medley (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Live Art) Heartbreak Hotel … Continue reading
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More enVisionMATH: Adding “near doubles”
The last post about enVisionMATH and how I, as a math person and dad, go about trying to make sense of what my 6-year old brings home from first grade seems to have struck a chord among parents. The comments … Continue reading
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Math-lovers of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your pan pizza
It’s been a month since I posted last, and this seems a strange way to break back into the posting habit but: You should boycott Pizza Hut. Here’s why: That’s a quick screen capture from a commercial that started running … Continue reading
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