This hilarious Twitter post just went viral and shows kids (and adults) why we need math. After seeing the post,… Read more Chicken Wings and Math
Category: real world applications
House Reno and Geometry
My husband and I have been renovating our house (HGTV/DIYnetwork style, sadly without the help of Chip and Jo from… Read more House Reno and Geometry
Desmos and Functions
In Algebra, we just finished our unit on functions and a colleague of mine had been talking about Desmos, so… Read more Desmos and Functions
Lions, Tigers, Math, Biology, World Geography, English, and DIM, oh my!
Okay, I know that title is cheesy… We took our freshmen students to the zoo last week for their first… Read more Lions, Tigers, Math, Biology, World Geography, English, and DIM, oh my!
Conditional Statements in Geometry and Computer Programming
While planning for the logic unit in geometry a few weeks ago, I wanted to increase the rigor and apply a more… Read more Conditional Statements in Geometry and Computer Programming
World Geometry
While planning for geometry last week I began thinking about how I could amp up midpoint and distance formulas. After… Read more World Geometry
Chicago Trip and Math
My husband and I just got back from a great trip in Chicago to celebrate our first year anniversary. I… Read more Chicago Trip and Math
Parabolic Solar Cookers
I am excited for our final project in Algebra II…parabolic solar cookers! After we did an in class investigation of the… Read more Parabolic Solar Cookers
Helping Nepal Through Learning About Logarithms
A few months ago I created an application investigation for my students involving logarithms in which one of the areas… Read more Helping Nepal Through Learning About Logarithms
Introduction to 3-D with Polyhedron Nets and Islamic Design
A couple weeks ago, I was planning for our last unit in geometry which is 3 dimensional solids, and as I was… Read more Introduction to 3-D with Polyhedron Nets and Islamic Design
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