Friday, June 13th, 2008
Well, it's official. I'm a huge fan of the Google Custom Search Engine tool!!
I have now created several of them:
Elementary Math, Ancient Greece-6th Grade, Biomes-6th Grade, and Ancient China-6th Grade
These are groups of websites I've put together. When you go to any of the above web pages, you get a ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Just discovered that SNL videos are "embeddable" (from the SNL site) just like YouTube videos! There's some great videos there from years and years ago, plus some current ones.
I'm mentioning it here, because of the "First CityWide Change Bank" one from years ago with Phil Hartman. This could actually help ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
I'll soon be leading a workshop called, "Math on the Internet."
In planning for this workshop, it occured to me that in order to pass along everything that I would want to pass along to those who come, I would have to give out more than one URL. My goal is ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
This last week was "Pi Week" at my school.
We made a big deal of this, for several reasons, one of which was that we teach geometry, including the circumference and area of a circle, which is where the marvelous number pi shows up!
On Wednesday, Pi day, we had an Albert ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Here's a quick mneumonic a friend of mine shared with me. For those of you that teach the quadratic equation, this will help your students to memorize it. I found it rather amusing...
There was a negative boy who couldn’t decide whether or not to go to a radical party.
The boy ...
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
This is another one of those things that I've held on to for years. In 1987, my Jr. High teacher, Mr. Raymond gave us this as a "Final Exam." It was a great little zinger to throw to those of us who are used to seeing past the surface of ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
I just ran across this:
http://verizonmath.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0HyxQv97Q&eurl=
This is a recording of a customer support call to Verizon wireless. The issue is whether 0.002 CENTS is different from 0.002 DOLLARS. The Verizon rep doesn't seem to understand this. The infinitely patient, yet persistent, caller tries to explain this to the rep. Depending on ...
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