The students were given a task, during the last month of AB and/or AB/BC Calc to create a media and/or visual arts based representation of their experience in the class to that point. Here is what they created. Not all submissions are included here, partially because I only have master recordings (instead of the live take / recordings) of only some, so patience. If you…
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Santa Fe New Mexican, October 29th, 2014 Schools across the country are engaging in a new type of scaffolded approach to mathematics – Close Math. Every student must carefully read a math problem the day before or in class, pencil in hand. After discussing the problem in detail during a short seminar – being careful to use the pencil to annotate and adjust algebraic language…
This is an attempt to calculate pi by exhaustion. This method leverages a polygon with n = x sides, inscribed within a unit circle. Archimedes did this to estimate his lower bound of pi, however, he also conscribed a polygon to provide an upper limit as well. Thus, when doing this with Calculus students, teachers should consider doing this activity (exhaustion by inscription) together, and…
While in a class for my Masters degree taught by Gwen Perea-Warniment, we were instructed to make one page mash-ups / overviews of content relevant the courses we were teaching. It was both about making the content accessible, and also about how to effectively make instructional one-pagers. In the attached Science Learner, readers will notice that I made a small comment under Essential Mechanics about…
From 2013-2015, I had the good fortune of co-leading the SF High School Rhymer’s Club with Troy Kavanagh. I began visiting Troy’s language arts classes in 2012-2013 because of all the positive energy I heard coming from them. Troy was also enlisting the support of renowned local hip-hop artist, Guadalupe Vargas, known as Perish, to help his students with better understanding the elements of hip-hop…