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90 Best Math Blogs for Students and Mathematics Teachers

90 Best Math Blogs for Students and Mathematics Teachers – posted 1-9-2025. Wow, a lot here.

Two HS Students find the First Trigonometric Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

This is a wonderful story. Ne’Kiya Jackson & Calcea Johnson, two high school students, have found new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem and published them in The American Mathematical Monthly (Volume 131, Issue 9, November 2024). The article is titled, “Five or Ten New Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem.” This is the first time that …

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ICTM – Hands-on Division with Fractions for Student Understanding

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, I’m presenting at the ICTM Annual Conference in Naperville, IL, at 3:00 pm. I’m presenting with one of  my students, Cailey Platt. The title of our presentation is: Hands-on Division with Fractions for Student Understanding. Links to the handouts and slides for the presentation can be found here. (or use …

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Putting Synthesis back in Bloom.

Benjamin Bloom published his taxonomy in 1956. In 2001, the categories were revised. Synthesis was taken out and Creating put in (among other smaller changes). Erik Francis points out (article link below) the importance for learner to synthesize and puts it back in.  Creating is kept. Now there are 7 levels of understanding. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/return-synthesis-connecting-critical-creative-thinking-francis/  

3 Great WIU Graduates Teaching MS Math

These guys are teaching math and helping students in many ways. Read the full story here (from WIU website). Read the full story here (from McDonough County Voice Newspaper).

Leadership is clarity, transparency, support, and trust

Leadership is clarity, set goals & purpose. Cast a vision transparency, Communication support, Do you have tools trust, and empower them to be creative, and failure is OK. Q: What are the key aspects of #leadership in a primarily remote workforce? #AskCitrix A: Remote leadership relies on a few things – clarity of vision and …

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Catalyzing Change

Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations Book released by NCTM in April 2018. See the page on this site.

New Illinois Math Content Test Coming May 14, 2018.

The math content test (presently “115”) is changing to “208” on 5/14/18. See http://www.il.nesinc.com/PageView.aspx?f=GEN_Tests.html

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7 Websites Spring 2016

The websites for the Spring 2016 Math 304 students are http://hale123.weebly.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/mrcurlott/ https://burlingameblog.wordpress.com/ http://andrewschwarz25.weebly.com/ https://elijahcsimmons.wordpress.com/ https://misskielminski.wordpress.com/ http://kyledoesmath.weebly.com/