By Bill Lombard on 1 December, 2009
More kudos for GeoGebra; I continue to share this wonderful open-source software program with others and watch them experience the joy as they see mathematics come alive with power and creativity. My students experience this on a regular basis. From the Tech Awards website: http://techawards.org/ “The Tech Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology [...]
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By Bill Lombard on 23 June, 2009
I just finished presenting a workshop for the Association of Illinois Middle Schools Annual Conference in Normal, Illinois (home of Illinois State Univ.) and enjoyed it tremendously. I had the pleasure of interacting with 150 middle school teachers and once again working with the AIMS staff – a real class act! Here’s what the AIMS [...]
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By Bill Lombard on 19 June, 2009
Guest post by Karen Schweitzer Need to brush up on your math skills or prepare materials for a new math class. There are many different colleges and universities that offer free online math courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Here are ten courses that would be useful to teachers. Numbers, Units, and Arithmetic – [...]
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By Bill Lombard on 30 December, 2008
This post features a video and some excerpts from the article “Lebanon schools turn algebra into child’s play”, by Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian. While most high schools in Oregon and across the nation struggle to get freshmen to pass algebra, one school district is trying something very different. Lebanon, which educates 4,000 students in eight [...]
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By Bill Lombard on 1 June, 2008
The June 2008 issue of the California Math Council ComMuniCator journal has posed the following problem in the student problem section: “Use each of the numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, and any operations to express as many counting numbers as possible, beginning with 1. All five of the numbers must be used in [...]
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