I Want to Teach Forever

Last year my students had their usual struggles with adding and subtracting integers at the beginning of the year (this is not just a middl...

The Like Terms card game has been the most popular idea posted here, accounting for half of this blog's traffic since its inception. ...

It has been very difficult to implement the curriculum from Fantasy Football and Mathematics: A Resource Guide for Teachers and Parents, Gra...

Today I didn't go to school. Today I took a mental health day ( MHD ) . While I'm not on my death bed, I have had trouble sleeping...

I realize that since I am a math teacher, it must seem like all of the ideas and lessons I have posted are designed for math teachers only. ...

There are a lot of things in math that are easy concepts to understand, but also easy to forget. Last year, my students had a lot of troubl...

Is it too much to ask that TI presenters actually know how to use TI equipment and have it fully functioning and prepared before we start a ...

It’s hard to get students to want to read and even harder to get them to enjoy reading. Two years ago, while teaching at an alternative sch...

Each summer, thousands of talented people either just out of school or embarking on a new path travel to Teach for America's Summer Inst...

My students had a lot of trouble with applying proportions and ratios to geometric figures and other problem situations , and I believed tha...

Today I was lucky enough to bring a group of 5 students to HESTEC Robotics Day at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, TX. H...

I have always used games to review for tests and quizzes--they make the often painful work of reviewing fun, easy and memorable, they help ...