cheesemonkey wonders

Over the last five years of teaching proofs in Geometry, I have learned two things: (1) the most effective student understanding comes from ...

December is when I am truly grateful for strong routines. They mean I can split the class up and still count on everything moving forward. I...

Once you get to circles, chords, tangents, secants, arcs, and angles in Geometry, it's all just a nightmare of things to memorize — whic...

OK, here's an example of how I used Talking Points first to get students primed for listening and considering other viewpoints, and the...

Leonard Bernstein once said, "To achieve great things, two things are needed — a plan and not quite enough time." I decided to put...

I started teaching Mathalicious' Harmony of Numbers  lesson in my 6th grade classes today, and I wanted to capture some of my thoughts b...

I have met teachers who refuse to answer questions of any kind at all during tests, and I admit that this puzzles me because from where I si...

This one is for Max, who asked about it on Twitter, and for Ashli, who interviewed me for her Infinite Tangents podcasts. As Ashli and I w...

We are in the midst of our giant 8th grade culminating assessment extravaganza — a multi-part project that includes a research paper, a crea...

It was another crappy Friday in an arithmetic series of crappy Fridays that were running together and threatening to define the limit of my ...