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Hospital Algebra
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Recently, I was in poor health and was rushed to the hospital for two emergency surgeries! The removal of my spleen and replacement of my heart valve! After (during recovery) I needed a minor…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Sean Karsten May 20.
classconnect.com is a pretty cool website... check it out...
If you havent got a chance to check out this website you should! It creates a very easy way for educators to find, organize and share materials. Common core standards are easy to link to websites,…Continue
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Bracketology - The myth of the five-twelve upset
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Since 1985, the number of wins from the 5th seed over the 12th seed in the first round of the ncaa tournament are 65 wins to 96 total games played (that is a 67.77% win prediction). Considering how…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Sean Karsten Mar 15.
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Arthur Weiss posted a discussionHospital Algebra
Recently, I was in poor health and was rushed to the hospital for two emergency surgeries! The removal of my spleen and replacement of my heart valve! After (during recovery) I needed a minor procedure. But my "INR" (which is a measure of how fast blood coagulates. 1 is normal, 2 means you coagulate twice as slow as everyone else and so on...) The procedure required that my INR be less than 1.5. So my doctor put me on FFP (fresh frozen plasma) to bring this down. My INR started at 5.6 3…See More
EJResearch commented on Arthur Weiss's video
What is ClassConnect?
"Thank you. Can always count on valuable contributions from you. By any chance were you in attendance this past Wednesday at Oakland Schools for the Common Core Summit on Algebra Trajectories? Ellen Whitesides
presented an interesting way to roll out…"
Jane Devota replied to Arthur Weiss's discussion 'Rich "Angry Birds" / Quadratics question.'"This is awesome. We have focused on the vertical motion model for quadratics, but this would be great compare and contrast."
Deann Markva replied to Arthur Weiss's discussion 'Rich "Angry Birds" / Quadratics question.'"I really liked the way you used "Angry Birds" to talk about quadratics. I am going to share this with a teacher who is currently working on quadratics. It really ties in to what our students are doing. "
Tanisha Johnson replied to Arthur Weiss's discussion 'Rich "Angry Birds" / Quadratics question.'"I just looked the activity and the additional angry birds link, Awesome. It makes me want to teach high school alegbra. I used to play this game all the time. I never thought about the direct connection to math. My students will be so sad…"
A discussion started by Arthur Weiss was featuredRich "Angry Birds" / Quadratics question.
My cherubs (students) appreciated this question... so I thought I would share... angry%20birds.pdf Cheers. See More
Claudia Heinrich replied to Arthur Weiss's discussion 'Rich "Angry Birds" / Quadratics question.'"this lesson has a pdf file showing 3 quadratic scenarios of launching the birds: a table, a graph and an equation.
It is all ready to print and use, relates quadratics to an application that the students know.
Google chrome is a free download and…"
Arthur Weiss posted a discussionFactoring trinomials three ways
Factoring%20trinomials%203.pdfThis lesson focuses on factoring trinomials with 1) "guess and check" method, 2) using an area model and 3) the diamond or X method.The lesson is written in the form of student notes and exercise... so it is not exactly a "what you should do in the classroom" type of lesson, but could be…See More
Arthur Weiss posted a discussionclassconnect.com is a pretty cool website... check it out...
If you havent got a chance to check out this website you should! It creates a very easy way for educators to find, organize and share materials. Common core standards are easy to link to websites, documents, lesson plans, etc... I have elementary teacher friends that swear by this site and I can see why! Unfortunately the site is woefully low on algebra materials. Looking at the elementary materials gives me hope. See More
Arthur Weiss replied to Sean Karsten's discussion 'Spring Break and continuing where you left off'"I think kids appreciate it when you give them a little review time after a break so I actually build this time into my pacing for the class when I look at a semester. Try not to look at it as a waste of time... more of an investment for the…"
Arthur Weiss commented on Keith Barnes's blog post 'Flipping the Geometry Classroom'"I've always like the itunes education videos... they are of a higher quality than the standard youtube video."
Sean Karsten replied to Arthur Weiss's discussion 'Bracketology - The myth of the five-twelve upset'"Interesting to look at. I think most 16 seeds these days are winners of small-time conferences. The argument could be made that they could be ranked differently because they are not the 60-64th best teams out there. It just adds a…"
Arthur Weiss replied to Arthur Weiss's discussion 'Bracketology - The myth of the five-twelve upset'"Making the jump from seed weights to probability is definately a questionable part of my argument. Given that there have been 67 tournaments (starting in 1939), and the seed weighting would have us expect 1 out of every 16 upsets... we should…"
Sean Karsten replied to Arthur Weiss's discussion 'Bracketology - The myth of the five-twelve upset'"Very cool. This makes an interesting argument for talking about how well basketball can be modeled by these statistics since no 16 seed has beaten a 1 seed, even though the numbers say it should happen every so often."
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What is a teacher worth?
Below is a playful (yet passionate) interpretation of the perception that teachers are nothing more than "glorified babysitters". The author, David Coffey from Spring Lake, hits a chord with me and some of the frustration I have felt (as of late) regarding the public's perception of teachers.
Enjoy and feel free to comment.
BTW... this article is starting to pop up in newspapers throughout the state. I found it at Mlive.com at this…
ContinuePosted on March 24, 2011 at 19:20 — 2 Comments
"First look" analysis of the common core and ACT
Welcome to 2011 everyone.
Attached below is a study published by ACT that reflects on and uses last year's ACT data from states like Michigan to predict how students would have preformed in relation to the Common core standards.
Not surprisingly, the study confirms the ideas and principals of mathematics instruction that we have been discussing at A4A for two years now!
Here is an exerpt from the article:
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Sir Ken Robinson- Changing Paradigms in Education
Watch this video first then read on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
I am a big fan of the lecture series TedTalks (www.Ted.com/talks). I first heard about Dy/Dan (AKA: Meyer) from the Ted lecture. Intellectual cotton candy... indulge your sweet tooth every once and a while... check them out.
I find this particular video very interesting (which is an animated adaption… Continue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
I am a big fan of the lecture series TedTalks (www.Ted.com/talks). I first heard about Dy/Dan (AKA: Meyer) from the Ted lecture. Intellectual cotton candy... indulge your sweet tooth every once and a while... check them out.
I find this particular video very interesting (which is an animated adaption… Continue
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 19:06
Common core documents
I've attached three document that look at the common core:
The common core itself: CCSSI_Math
Standards.pdf
A document that aligns the common core to HSCE: …
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The common core itself: CCSSI_Math
Standards.pdf
A document that aligns the common core to HSCE: …
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Posted on August 11, 2010 at 10:24 — 4 Comments
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- At 17:53 on May 4, 2011,
Sandra Norton said… Hi there. I have been sharing information you posted a while back about the common core and HSCE connections with co-workers. Larry Wyn was very surprised when I mentioned your name. I told him that you are on the A4A site, but he has trouble getting on. His email is lwyn@moisd.org
He would like to hear from you.
Oh - and thanks for all the common core stuff - anything new would be great!
Thanks Sandy
- At 21:34 on October 17, 2010,
Andrea B. Minor said… - Hello Arthur,
Thanks for the journal post on the importance of using graphing calculators. Even though I have questioned their benefits, I still use them regularly with my lessons. They are the next best thing to compete with my students' interest in their cell phones. I read from your page how NC is using cell phones in the teaching of Algebra. How interesting is that? Funny you should respond to my blog because I found your math book by topic the other day and I would like to use your lesson on recursive notation/functions with my students. I think using their family history to teach this concept is a great idea!
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