I have started this blog to document and share my journey into teaching math in a 2.0 world. I am reading ISTE's Reinventing Project-Based Learning and will be posting ideas as they come to me. I'm looking for ways to get the students more involved in the discovery of math and ways to incorporate technology into the classroom. For example, I teach my students to complete the square on quadratic equations to find the roots then, after they're comfortable with the procedure, I set them to completing the square on the standard form of a quadratic equation. They end up with the quadratic formula. This is how math was discovered in the first place. Rather than handing them the information prepackaged, I lead them through the same discovery processes mathematicians went through. I feel it gives the students a personal ownership of the math.
Please feel free to comment and collaborate as I can use all the ideas I can get.
About Me
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- I am a Math major at The University of Texas at Tyler. In my spare time I tutor secondary school students in Algebra, Trig and Calculus. Please feel free to post for homework help. I am an anti-abortion Libertarian. I hate fascist Republicans who want to steal all your money and give it to big business and socialist Democrats who want to steal all your money and give it to the poor.
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