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		<title>Assessing students</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the end of our first quarter, and for the first time in years, I was a bit at a loss on how to fill out the grade reports. Two things occurred that had me a bit perplexed.
First, the spread of my grades in Geometry Honors was significantly higher than it has been in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=402&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore Math &#8211; a revelation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is funny how we build things up in our minds to be one thing, and then reality turns out to be quite different. A zen monk named Zuishin that I used to know once told us a story about his going to the dentist, and how the whole trip there he was agonizing about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=400&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading for Math Teachers I « Research in Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. This guy who writes the &#8220;Research in Practice&#8221; blog makes a lot of sense. Below is a quote that really resonates with me, but it is very much worth your while to read the rest of the post.
Take-home lesson: never underestimate your ability to fool yourself into believing your students understand something when really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=398&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=394&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abstracts and 3 Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calculus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geometry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problem Based Learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[calculus BC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geometry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geometry Honors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized that, for those of you (which is probably most of you!) not familiar with my classes, the references in my Geometry FAQ document to &#8220;abstracts&#8221; and &#8220;3 problems&#8221; were probably a little vague.
A while ago now I began to get fed up with assigning traditional math homework. Not because I thought it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=389&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murphy, sickness, and calculus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calculus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today starts an interesting day. I was already going in late because I have a doctor&#8217;s appointment. I was only missing a free period and then part (or possibly all) of a dept. chair meeting. No big deal. I would still make it in time for my Calculus BC class.
However, Murphy has a way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=385&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Geometry FAQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geometry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have mentioned previously, I am teaching my Geometry classes in a problem based format using material originally adapted from Phillips Exeter Academy. I did a survey recently using my new best friend, Google Docs, and got some interesting feedback. Because this is the first time for my students to learn in this fashion, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=375&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would really have liked a Harkness Table in my room, but they are too much money, and I do share my room with two other teachers. Instead, I have trapezoidal tables which I currently configure like this:
This is a view from one of the front corners. I have whiteboards across two walls, a wall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=373&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maple 13</title>
		<link>http://jimmy13.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/maple-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Algebra System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maple]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maplesoft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a demonstration of Maple 13 for about one hour on Friday, October 9th. Dr. Robert Lopez led me through numerous ways of using Maple 13 to solve problems by projecting his desktop onto mine while talking me through everything on the phone. His explanations were very clear, and it was easy to follow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=362&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama &#8211; Nobel Peace Prize?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nobel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I have to say that I voted for Obama, and I believed in the change he represented. Even before he was sworn in, though, I feared that it would be politics as usual once he was in office.
But the Nobel Peace Prize? If I read this article correctly, Obama has been awarded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimmy13.wordpress.com&blog=490265&post=349&subd=jimmy13&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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