cheesemonkey wonders

I am one of those urban public school math teachers with a truly absurd spread of abilities in my gigantic Algebra 1 classes, so don't e...

Some years ago, in a town about 11 miles south of here, I taught both math and English (I'm credentialed in both — shhh... don't tel...

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

By U.S. standards, San Francisco is a large, densely populated city, but geographically, we are really quite small — only 7 x 7, as the sayi...

I made it through the first week! And the chairs never had to get unstuck from the floor! I did so much more metacognitive work this week ...

This blog post is also a session at Sam Shah's The Virtual Conference of Mathematical Flavors   In a conference on flavors of mat...

On my last day in Cleveland, I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This was my one assignment from my husband David, a long-time jazz, r...