January 26, 2013
In her blog post, My Backwards Approach to Inverse Functions, Emily Alman makes an observation that is, I think, vitally important for math teachers to understand: “One problem with algebra is that there is often a disconnect between the meaning/understanding and the computations/doing. We try our darndest to Read more…
December 6, 2012
We’ve just had a good week-plus of precalculus lessons built around a story, inspired by Daniel Willingham’s tweet and the article by Julie DeNeen about which he tweeted. [embedit snippet=”willingham-tweet”] The tweet came at an opportune time. It was Thanksgiving break, I was away from Read more…
July 21, 2012
After re-reading the first chapter of Eli Maor’s e: The Story of a Number, I ended up spending a couple of days creating a GeoGebra applet which I’ve called Napier’s Gift. Given that it’s July, I didn’t have a class to try it out on, Read more…
June 10, 2012
On her blog, My Web 2.0 Journey, Kristen Fouss links to a collection of documents that can be used in a class studying trigonometric functions. I’m interested in trying the radian cut-ups and Marsha Hurwitz’s sine cosine game (which in it’s current form needs degree Read more…
July 23, 2011
In order to begin learning to use JSXGraph (which also requires that I learn javascript) I created an application in which a line is randomly generated and the user enters what she thinks the equation is. Her equation is then graphed for comparison with the Read more…
