Rachel Vargas
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As spring break comes to an end I suddenly am thinking of all of things I need to do that I haven’t, or wanted to do that I didn’t. Yet, I am grateful for what I have done with the time! One thing I had lots of fun doing over spring break was hanging with…
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So I used to go to coffee shops quite often but I suppose that was mostly before I had my own house and before my husband and I figured out that we can make it much cheaper (well I guess we always sort of knew that) and just as good (this has come with time…
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So I am an extremely competitive board game/card game player. I love to learn a new game for the first time and completely crush all of my opponents. I play games with my family friends quite often. I joined a small group of women playing card games and I quickly let them know that when…
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I just hit spring break, and it’s going well. I’ve done some yard work, seen some friends, and of course you know I just got back from a PD! Last Friday, the last day of school before spring break, I had a co-curricular meeting. We have these about once a month and otherwise have PLC…
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About a week ago one of my students was asking for assistance on an assignment for my geometry class and I wrote down some formulas for his reference on a blank piece of paper. I wrote the distance formula, midpoint formula, and the point-slope form of an equation of a line. The student replied with…
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As a teacher your constant hope is to inspire your students… a constant hope that motivated students will be challenged and unmotivated students will be experience success. I have a treasure box in my classroom. I teach high school geometry. They love the treasure box–we are never too old for simple fun like dollar tree…
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Ever since I was a kid I have loved dum-dums lollipops. My favorite flavor has always been blue raspberry. I knew several people who real liked butterscotch and root beer, but I always looked for blue raspberry. In my undergraduate studies I took a course called MATH 206: Fundamentals of Geometry for Teachers where I…
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The next unit I am teaching to my Geometry classes filled with sophomores and a few freshman is a unit on circles. What is one thing most of us think about when we think of circles? FOOD! Pie… a pizza pie or a dessert pie… all involve pi! How fun. Anyway, I want to tell…
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If you teach a core content like me (math here!), you may be guilty of the occasional mental trap of “these kids probably act better in classes they CHOOSE to be in.” You know, maybe they behave better in their elective courses because they signed up for that course instead of it being required. While…
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