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Category Archives: Geometry Honors

Isosceles Triangles

February 16, 2013

Here’s a great problem for your students with isosceles triangles. You can click on the image to enlarge it. Send …

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Struggle: Building Strength or Revealing Weakness?

February 8, 2013

Do you ever feel like you are helping your students too much and doing the thinking for them? Are you …

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The Power of a Power

February 6, 2013

Are your students confused trying to memorize all the rules for exponents? Begin with a simple analogy. Just as multiplication …

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NCTM President Discusses Rigor

February 5, 2013

What should rigor look like in a math classroom? Click here for a discussion by Linda Gojak, President of the …

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Dan Meyer on Real World Math

January 20, 2013

Click here to watch the video. Reflect: ~ How can you make questions at your grade level irresistible to students …

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Points of Concurrency

December 14, 2012

Many real-life problems can be considered from the point of view of centroids, circumcenters, orthocenters, and incenters of triangles. Here …

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What mathematics do teachers need to know?

November 28, 2012

For anyone planning to teach K-12 mathematics in the era of the Common Core Standards, this report from the Conference Board …

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The wheels on the bicycle

November 20, 2012

Click here for an interesting circle problem plus a great suggestion to enhance the task.

Managing Middle School Classrooms

November 7, 2012

Click here for great advice from the Association for Middle Level Education.

Common Core Math: From Standards to Instruction

November 5, 2012

Click here to see the slides from a great ASCD webinar that explain how to design units of instruction by examining …

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