Several new playlists populated with student screencasts are now online. You check them out right here.
The new videos are from Algebra 2 and Multivariable Calculus.
New Student Screencasts
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Trig Posters
As I walked by Mrs. Anderson’s class today an explosion of bright color caught my eye, so I popped on in… and found these amazing trig posters!
Check out the interactive trig poster made by Mrs. Anderson's @WillistonNS students! #mathinmotion https://t.co/nSY5SyVJ4S
— Josh Seamon-Ingalls (@MrJoshSeamon) February 8, 2014
PSAT Math Review
Last night I ran a review session for math section of the upcoming PSAT examination. My screen recording of the session is below along with a few resource documents. A few helpful things to remember:
1) Always guess if you can eliminate at least one answer.
2) Make sure you guess randomly.
3) Make sure you are answering what the question is asking.
4) Just because the answer you came up with is listed as a choice doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the correct answer.
PSAT2014 – Math review session – my notes (PDF)
PSAT2014 – Blank practice test w/answer key (PDF)
PSAT2014 – Practice test w/my work for the math problems and the answer key (PDF)
Best New Thing #1
Check out this amazing trig function dance video made by the fantastic Berkshire School math department!
Links of the Week
Today might not be a school day for the kids here at Williston, but the faculty is hard at work having a blast at our professional development day! The department is currently connection in small subject groups. Also, here are some of the resources I shared this morning:
Article (Mashable): 10 Rockstar Teachers on Twitter
Article (RPI alum magazine): Solving Problems
Podcast (Planet Money): Will a computer decide whether you get your next job?
Puzzle MANIA (MIT): 2014 Mystery Hunt
Website: Google Glass in Music Education
Video (Edward Frenkel): Why do people hate mathematics?
Resource (Website): Lymboo
Article (EdTech): 7 video tutorials on how to create posters and infographics using piktochart
Department Wordcloud
Last Fall, all Williston students filled out course evaluations. On those evaluations, each student was asked to pick the three words that best describe their math class. Here’s a word cloud made from the submitted words. The larger the word, the more frequently it was mentioned.
Two new student screencast playlists
I just finished putting two new student screencast playlists online from my BC & Multivariable Calculus class. Enjoy!
13.3 – The Dot Product
13.4 – The Cross Product
Here’s a particularly strong student video from 13.3:
Student Screencasts
I just created a students screencasts page that contains direct links to all of the video playlists I have created for all of the student screencasts my students have created so far this year. The page will be continually updated with new videos as they are put online. Here’s a great recent video created by one of my Algebra 2 students:
Why do people hate mathematics?
A fantastic video of Edward Frenkel, author of Love and Math (a fantastic book!), was just put online that I think is well worth watching.
In the video he answers the question, “Why do people hate mathematics?” along with many others.
What about you? Why do you think people hate mathematics? Let me know in the comments of this post.
Surface Pro Promo Video
A few weeks ago Microsoft came to campus to film a promo video on Williston’s adoption of the Surface Pro and one place they filmed was my BC & Multivariable Calculus class. Lots of footage is from my classroom, including interviews of my students, made it into the promo. Check it out!
