cheesemonkey wonders

This year I'm teaching proof much more the way I have taught writing in previous years in English programs, and I have to say that the s...

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

After months of not feeling like my best teacher self in the classroom, I got fed up and spent all weekend tearing stuff down and rebuilding...

I'm having students create a concept map as a summative assessment for our Complex Numbers unit and... w o w — there is all kinds of lea...

When I'm using MARS tasks with my 6th graders, I have found no structure to be more effective in aligning their attentions and energies ...

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

At Twitter Math Camp 2013 (#TMC13) this morning, I was both amused and inspired to read these two tweets — one by one of my math ed inspirat...

In 8th grade English we have just started our poetry unit, which is probably my favorite literature unit, and today was probably my favorite...

Last year, the book that changed my teaching practice the most was definitely Dan Pink's Drive : The Surprising Truth About What Motivat...

Lately I've become acutely aware of what I actively value in my classroom, which has entailed an uncomfortable amount of noticing the co...

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