I'll be speaking at a conference in New York City on Saturday, January 15, on a panel with three other teachers from the Urban School of San Francisco. The conference sponsor is the Independent Curriculum Group, a network of schools that are working to develop home-grown curricula and to de-emphasize APs.The conference will be held… Continue reading But does it work?
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Kinesthetic Page
I combined my blog posts on kinesthetic activities into one page on my Web site. I edited it some, and added links.--Henri
Escape from the Textbook!
I co-presented "Escape from the Textbook!" with Carlos Cabana at the Asilomar meeting of the California Math Council. The turnout was good, and the talk was well received. A bunch of people joined the Escape from the Textbook! community in the following days, and several said they'd come to the February 12 conference. (You should… Continue reading Escape from the Textbook!
Infinity update
I added a Teachers' Guide to the page on Infinity, an elective course I teach at the Urban School.There is also a fair amount of additional information on the course on edWeb, in the Escape from the Textbook! community. (More info.)--Henri
Op ed in The Mathematics Teacher
I had an op ed ("Soundoff") published in the November 2010 issue of The Mathematics Teacher, a special issue on technology. ( I suspect it is only available on line to members of the National Council of Teachers of Math.) The piece is a substantially expanded version of my blog posts about why I use… Continue reading Op ed in The Mathematics Teacher
Responding to e-mail
I do respond to messages I receive through the address on my Web site. If you don't hear from me after ten days or so, check your spam filter.Some schools and districts routinely reject messages from outside as spam. If you work at such a place, you'll have to give me some other way to… Continue reading Responding to e-mail
History of Function Diagrams
A correspondent asks:I am curious if you "invented" the function diagrams, or if you know anything about the history of where they come from.I did not invent them, but I did help to spread them (a little) into secondary education. See my ideas on how to use function diagrams in secondary school, including an overview,… Continue reading History of Function Diagrams
Kinesthetic Function Diagrams
I start by doing the "function diagram dance" for my students. (To understand this, you need to already be familiar with function diagrams.)The idea of the dance is that my right hand represents x and my left hand represents y. (From the student's perspective, this puts the x on the left and the y on… Continue reading Kinesthetic Function Diagrams
Yet again, more kinesthetics!
If you search for "kinesthetic" on this blog, you'll see a series of posts about kinesthetic activities to help teach various concepts. I will eventually combine all of these into a new page on my Web site -- but it just hit me that I had not yet posted all the kinesthetic activities I use.… Continue reading Yet again, more kinesthetics!
This blog
I have renamed this blog, as the content of the posts has gradually shifted from "what's new on my math ed page" to "my math ed blog". I will continue to mention changes on my math ed site, my publications, and my presentations at conferences, but I hope to continue expressing my thoughts about math… Continue reading This blog
Henri's Math Education Blog 