My tweets to #ed331 (Winter 2014)
This is a PDF printout of my tweets to the #ed331 hashtag for Winter 2014. You may also view the saved search Twitter's website.
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GVSUMath Youtube Channel - Brief Tutorial
You can follow these instructions to search for a specific math topic on the GVSU Math YouTube channel. (Last updated: 6/24/2014)1. Go to https://www.youtube.com/user/GVSUmath/ and click the icon to...
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Transformations
Or: Is this the kind of problem where you can have more than one answer?There are a select few topics in algebra that can get me tied up in knots. One of those is function transformations--you know,...
View ArticleFrom the Syllabus: My SBG Blurb
It is getting on toward the end of the 6-week summer semester in college algebra, and I am once again thinking hard about my standards-based grading (SBG) implementation. As part of my reflection, I...
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Mr. Aion's Pledge to Improved Mathematics
I had to share this little gem I found on Year 2, Day 12, Justin Aion's blog, Relearning to Teach: And so on his behalf and in his honor, I proudly present, "The Pledge to Improved Mathematics"! (also...
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Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say
Ever had one of these days?If so, check out this article by Steve Reinhart (2000): “Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say!”.For any fellow teacher-educators who view this, here's the home workshop I used to...
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Minds on Mathematics - Storify
This is a record of the live-tweeting at @wendywardhoffer's #mindsonmath presentation at Kent ISD on Oct 2, 2014. In attendance and actively tweeting: @delta_dc, @ProfJonh, @RAnderson_Math.
View ArticleGeogebra Tube Links for Mth221
Which quadrilateral am I? (Paul Yu)https://www.geogebratube.org/student/m51987Measured kitemaker (Paul Yu)https://www.geogebratube.org/student/m19458Triangle Inequality (Todd...
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Quadrilateral Hierarchies - Productive Struggle
An overarching goal for the semester is to help my pre-service teachers grow more comfortable with "productive struggle" and with persevering on challenging tasks. We worked at it for a long time...
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Pocket strategies: Purposeful Incredulity
Think back to your school years. Think of that one teacher who managed to make every lesson fun and engaging, the one who had a canny way of making even the driest of topics seem worthwhile and...
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The Equity Principle
Here's a clip from NCTM's webpage on the Equity Principle:So Equity does NOT mean that every student is treated the same.That can be tough for new educators, especially here in America where all men...
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TT-TNG (F14 edition)
Teaching Tips (from) The Next GenerationPresenting the inaugural edition of... Teaching Tips (from) the Next Generation: a summary of semester-end blog posts written by graduating secondary math...
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Spurious correlations, three ways
I stumbled across a collection of spurious correlations a while back.Here is one of them that struck me, in part because the data set links sour cream consumption per capita and motorcycle riders...
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PSTs: "What I will do to make sure my elem students have a good math...
I try to give my students plenty of opportunity to reflect on their growth as we approach the end of the semester. With that goal in mind, I had my students tell me what they remembered about their...
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SBG Indicators - Your Experience May Vary
Uh-huh...Learning targets are hard to write.Here's one (of 27) that I used in F'13: D.3 I can calculate, work flexibly with, and demonstrate understanding of statistical measures of center and spread...
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Finding the "Hidden Wows"
I was working with some middle school teachers-to-be who are noticing some of the aspects of algebra we tend to take for granted after years of practice and application, and they are noticing how...
View ArticleAMTE 2015: Supporting Growth Through Cognitive Coaching
This page hosts the materials for the presentation by Profs Coffey, Gerson, and Hasenbank on the use of Cognitive Coaching(SM) for preservice teacher field supervision (presented at AMTE 2015).Coaching...
View ArticleAMTE 2015: Using Standards Based Grading with PSTs
This page hosts the materials for the presentation by Jon Hasenbank and Pamela Wells on the use of standards based grading in math courses for future teachers (presented at AMTE 2015).SBG...
View ArticleMIA2015 - Facilitating Growth through SBG
How can the use of standards based grading support a growth mindset in students?Presented at GVSU's Math In Action Conference Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015 by Dr. Pamela Wells and Dr. Jon Hasenbank(Session...
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Inspiration Post
For all those who need this today.https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2b/de/d3/2bded3e02dfc2f5d55ab162b296baf43.jpg
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