Math Stories

For the standards, I don’t have to take scientific notation very far. They don’t need to be able to do arithmetic with them, they just need to be able to understand them: convert to them, from them, and compare them. Those last two, in my informal evaluations during the classes, were gimmes. Incidental learning that […]

End of the semester – quarterly assessments are over, but there’s one topic to teach them left, even though it won’t get onto this semester’s grades. I thought I’d give dan’s advice a try: build the worksheet first. This is what I came up with. It’s a short day – I think after a warmup […]