Well, hello to the 3 of you still reading this blog…

I took a loooong break from blogging. This past month I have been doing a lot of transitioning (between teams) at IHOP and I have been trying to keep my classes at The Daniel Academy together. Planning lessons and grading papers tends to take the creative blogging out of me. ;-/ 
However, after 1 [...]

Two things to report!

#1 Today was the first day of The Daniel Academy!
A few highlights:
- Having 20 min left of Algebra 1 and having already finished the stuff I had planned for the day… that took some quick thinking!
- Waking up a student three times
- Transitions are crazy… both the students and the teachers change classrooms.
- My math posters [...]

Functions

I thought it would be good to update my blog with a quick note. No time for preparing witty thoughts and diatribes. I am slowly yet surely creating lesson plans, so the thought on my mind now is…
(drum roll… ) How to teach functions! Functions are a basic concept of algebra. The concept of taking two groups [...]

One down…

Seventy-one to go. Phew… I have been studying and perusing my math books for several hours today, and I am pleased to announce, that I have one lesson planned! Hurrah!
Oh dear, reality check…  one out of seventy-two complete and about three weeks before the whole shebang is due.  Back to the grindstone.

Logarithms!

 I am sure most of you readers will not be interested in my mathematical marvels, but I am thrilled to death. Well… I was studying the Sound Reference Handbook by Yamaha today (as a part of my quest to get more technical knowledge of sound) and I made an amazing discovery!  I was thrilled today [...]