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Assessments: Synthesis Skills

To Recap: I made it a goal of mine this year to make better assessments. Enough has happened that I’ve started to process it all, which is one of the things I use this blog for: taking a snapshot of...

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Global Math Department & Understanding by Design

Hey all, So here’s some publicity about something I’m doing soon: I’m co-presenting at the Global Math Department on Understanding by Design with Tina and Elizabeth. You can see the details and...

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Assessments: The Collateral Damage of SBG

Fair Warning: This post took a month to write. It’s long. It’s involved. It’s also a meditation on my entire year trying to implement a Standards-Based Grading (SBG) system and what that even means....

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SBG: My Standards, Assessments, and Thoughts on Grading

Hi Everyone, I present, for your planning pleasure, portions of my Geometry Standards and around 30 Geometry Assessments that I used last year: My Standards My Assessments There are comments at the end...

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Geometry Problem Generator

Update 1/22: Added another Problem Generator link to the bottom of the post. Original post is below: Short Version of this Post: Watch This Video of me using Geogebra & Javascript to make my life...

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Another Reason for Twitter

Hey everyone, I’m getting worse at keeping my blog updated… I’ve been wanting to add something to this for a while because I haven’t liked that the first post people see when they come here starts with...

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The Common Core Shift in Algebra I

I’ve spent this year trying to teach a genuine Common Core Algebra I curriculum to high school freshman (my first time doing either of those) and I keep trying to find a way to write about with my...

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Balance Equation Puzzles

One of the ways that I teach solving linear equations (things like 2x + 4 = 3x – 5) is by using balance puzzles: squares are x’s, circles are constants. The puzzle above is the same as 2x + 2 = 8. The...

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Coding Makes Things Better

I don’t really know what else to title this post, but I’m about to share a few adventures I’ve had in improving my programming skills to make some problem-generators that’ll make my life easier. This...

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Something New: Codey McCoderson

So here’s something new: I’m gonna try writing at a new blog for a while. It’s called Codey McCoderson because good jokes only get better with age. Here’s why: I’ve spent this last year mostly out of...

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