An "Old Math Dog" Learning New Tricks

In Algebra 2, we are working on logarithms right now. I am pretty much sticking with what I did last year - I was pleased with the results...

First off, I do want to apologize for the lack of posts. I have to be honest, I am still very overwhelmed, although I am now at least planni...

Something else I am going to be revisiting is how I'm doing assessments. For the first 19 years of my teaching career, I did unit tests,...

I gave my Algebra 2 students a quiz this week on multiplying polynomials and factoring. I didn't put any feedback problems on it this ti...

Yesterday I gave a quiz on properties of exponents and adding and subtracting polynomials (the graded learning targets on this quiz) as well...

In response to my blog post yesterday about why I think students aren't attempting feedback questions, misscalul8 asked, " Have yo...

Another round of quizzes, another blog post on how my students aren't doing so well with my current system. But this time, I think I...

Yes, it was another quiz day in Algebra 2 today. Yesterday, I had them work on review problems over all the learning targets (not just the o...

Since I posted last and saw on Blogger that it was my 99th post, I wondered what my 100th post should be. After all, 100 seems like a rather...

I just gave another round of quizzes over the last few days. I am not pleased with how it's going. This is nothing new.  I can't dec...

Last year with my Algebra 2's and SBG didn't seem this frustrating to me. We are in our last week of the grading period right now an...

In the past, I have given "unit" tests. Taught the concepts that (loosely) fit together, did a couple of days of review at the end...