In 2013 my district adopted new curriculum that was very closely aligned to the (then) new Common Core State Standards. I read these words as a standard I needed to teach: Buy the lesson comparing linear and exponential functions! The textbook we had adopted used the example of simple and compound interest. We’ve all seen …
When I was in my second year teaching I had a student teacher for one class of the day. We needed a project to help our students understand and practice making two-way frequency tables of categorical (qualitative) data. He had an idea that included students gathering data and (the best part) using it to make …
If you know me you know that I love to empower students and I never underestimate their ability to solve a math problem. I applied this mentality to create a unit for graphing quadratic functions that was entirely student-led and developed students’ conceptual understanding in a big way. It also relied on student collaboration and …
