Mu Alpha Theta is the National High School and Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society. The link provides access to the top 8 student math videos for 2013.
The consideration of cord length is very important in a bungee jump—too short, and the jumper doesn’t get much of a thrill; too long, and ouch! In this lesson, students model a bungee jump using a Barbie® doll and rubber bands. The distance to which the doll will fall is directly proportional to the number of rubber bands, so this context is used to examine linear functions.
This is a great activity that we did in my AP Statistics class in high school but which can be used in lower level math classes as well. Barbie bungee jumping!
A very fun math education blog that includes great resources and many posts about honest elementary school reactions to mathematics and their theories. One thing a teacher has to be is prepared for questions we can't answer!
Educatorsresources.com is an online resource directory that helps teachers, principals, school administrators, PTAS/PTOs learn about products and services.
This is a directory of resources for people who work in the field of education including all kinds of goodies such as information about grants, professional development, free curriculum materials, and more!
This summer, I met a principal who was recently named as the administrator of the year in her state. She was loved and adored by all, but she told me she was leaving the profession.
I screamed, "You can't leave us," and she quite bluntly replied, "Look, if I get an offer to lead a school system of orphans, I will be all over it, but I just can't deal with parents anymore; they are killing us."
Sometimes difficult parents can drive away the best of teachers, but so too can difficult teachers make life hard for parents. How can we best foster positive cooperation between educators and parents?