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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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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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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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