In my first quarter back in the classroom after two years in another job and after just having my daughter, I felt like this kid kept smacking puck away from the net. (Or may the dearth of hockey in Wyoming is really getting to this Midwestern girl. Ha!) But I did make some progress on the goals I [...]
Archive for January, 2011
“History is Dead! Long Live History!”
Posted in Instructional Strategies, tagged historical thinking, history on January 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Not long ago, I watched this TED Talk by Conrad Wolfram, creator of WolframAlpha, on the teaching of mathematics. In this video, Conrad discusses the use of computers in teaching math and how they can be utilized to shift the emphasis from computation to problem solving in the real world. Shortly after that, I came [...]
