Real teaching means real learning

Historically, I would say that the least amount of learning occurs during exam week.   This year, however, I have tried to make this stateme...

I used this video in my calculus class to show how math can either support or disprove a movie. I showed this movie to my students and ask...

During my first unit, instead of assessing with a traditional exam I used an open ended project .  One of my students submitted the followi...

Here is an activity I created to introduce geometric sequences.  1) Watch the movie below: 2) Determine the dimensions of the last ima...

Here is an activity I used in my Math Calculus class to introduce tangents at a point. I gave each student a copy of the video below. T...

Here are two YouTube movies which, through edititng, could become an engaging math problem. If you would like to use either and can't ...

This year I gave my students an open-ended project.  Below is a video that a student submitted.  The project was entirely open-ended and whe...

 Does the price of engagement and real learning have to be in the $1 000s? The price of a flip cam - $159. 99 The price of a pack of post i...

Usually on the last day before Christmas, a christmas movie or activity is completed or "busywork."  This year I decided, instead ...