admin on June 23rd, 2008

Now is a great time to stock up on items for school.  In this past Sunday’s newspaper, Office Max has a brown paper bag where you can put items that you choose (read the small print because some items are not given a discount) to get a 15% discount.  This may not have occurred in all [...]

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admin on June 7th, 2008

Now that the end is near, here are some suggestions for what you can do with your students. 
1.  Play Jeopardy.  It works really well with a LCD projector and smartboard.
2.  Play math equation race on the chalkboard or whiteboard.  This is where the students are grouped in fours and each one takes a turn at [...]

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admin on March 2nd, 2008

How many times have you had students walk into the classroom and ask the following questions?  Are we doing anything today?  What are we doing today?  The students actually have no idea about what is going on in the class.  For years, I did not tell the students what we were doing until the class [...]

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