by dperkins | Feb 25, 2014 | Blog
Guest Blogger David Cook is Director of Innovation and Partner Engagement at the Kentucky Department of Education. One of the most exciting movements in education today is the competency based learning movement. The term “competency based learning” is sometimes...
by rodaniel | Jun 17, 2011 | Blog
I’m continuing my study of the book Focus on High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making. I’ve been going through the first four chapters again, just to get a second look at the material more closely. I found this incredible nugget in the first example on page...
by rodaniel | Oct 8, 2010 | Blog
Last month I shared my thoughts on drawing the human form and more specifically the human face. I mentioned in the post that I liked the idea of students collecting the image of a face on the computer to do this activity using the Paint program and a spreadsheet. I...
by rodaniel | Sep 3, 2010 | Blog
Bringing Proportions to Life… and art I’m always trying to think about how I can bring activities together that achieve the goals of getting students to use math, things like: measure, gather data, use the data to design something or predict an outcome,...
by rodaniel | Mar 12, 2010 | Blog
I came across the Every Trails app for my iPhone and thought it had some potential as a tool for tracking my workouts. I had no idea! 19 Mile Park Loop Map your trip with EveryTrail It’s incredibly cool. I love the multiple ways of looking at the map data....