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Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2015

Thoughts on Capsule Night--and a Wish

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Capsule Night--not sure where the name came from--in some schools it is called Curriculum Night. First of all, it's fabulous. Fabulous...
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Monday, April 7, 2014

What is in the Smarter Balanced Pilot Test?

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Read Part I: Smarter Balanced Test: Try It Out Before Your Kids Take It Read Part II: Smarter Balanced Comes to Ann Arbor a Year Early. ...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Missed Opportunities: Ann Arbor and the Washtenaw IB/WAY/ECA Consortium

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I wasn't really paying attention to the big brouhaha as to whether the Ann Arbor schools should sign the contract to continue to partici...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Math Lessons for Language People

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One of the books I read over the summer was   When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowl...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Birthday Problem Revisited

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Math people, history people, social science people, people people--this one's for you. What follows in this New York Times article is...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Time and Time Again

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Lately my son has been getting a lot of bar and bat mitzvah invitations. A bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah (bar mitzvah for a boy, bat mitzvah fo...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Racial Disparities in Special Education

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If you are a parent in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, last week you got a letter that was nearly unintelligible. You might have wondered wh...
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Friday, September 9, 2011

Miss USA: Should math and evolution be taught in schools??

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One is the original, the other is farce. Can you tell which is which?
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

What Else is Math Good For?

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Yup--art. Check out the work of Sol LeWitt , on display at MassMoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, until 2033--so you'...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

It's Art! It's Math!

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I doodled my way through high school, so I found this fascinating, even had no idea who Hilbert is. (Find out who he is here .) [So thi...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Technology and (Lots) More

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OK, I know you've been wondering where I've been...hey, it's summer! I have been working on some longer posts, but in the mean...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Asking the Right Questions

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Rick Garlikov describes the Socratic Method as "Teaching by Asking Instead of Telling." He has an extremely interesting experim...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Tiger: The Lighter Side

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TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? (William Blake, Th...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Trimesters and Algebra

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New state standards have pushed many districts into a trimester system. (The majority of Washtenaw County districts have switched over. In ...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Saline, Math, and the Retweet

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Ten days ago I wrote up a summary of the rumors that were going on about Saline eliminating the high school math department. I said at the ...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Quote of the Day

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"The harder the math homework is, the more useless the math is." --High school student For more background reading, see this post ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Square Root Day

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It turns out that today, March 3, 2009 (or 3/3/09, as you might prefer) is Square Root Day. Why? Because 3 x 3=9, and so we say that 3 squar...