Rachel Vargas
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During my sophomore year in my undergraduate studies I took a course called MATH 206: Fundamentals of Geometry for Teachers, and I absolutely loved it. It was a course for pre-service elementary and middle grades mathematics teachers. I was taking the course as a middle and secondary pre-service mathematics teacher. This course modelled collaboration and…
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“Because I wrote this test!” That was my response to this question posed by a student today while taking his right triangle trigonometry test. I could hardly respond due to my laughter, which I could hardly enjoy due to the circumstances of the room. You know, it’s best practice to stay quiet while students are…
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If you are at all proficient in elementary mathematics, you know that the answer to this question is a yes. 2 is the smallest prime number, that is, the smallest positive integer whose only positive integer factors are 1 and itself. I cannot even remember when or where of why I started saying “Is 2…
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