Mar 16

Spring 2021 Websites

Miya Christiansen: https://miyaswebpage.wordpress.com/

Brianna Gorsuch: https://mathwithmissg650681653.wordpress.com/

These are the Spring 2021 Math 304 students.

Feb 27

A few notes on making web sites

Tools for making webpages (web sites).

WordPress.

  • (blog) Posts – more timely, often shorter, specific to one topic. Have categories and tags.
  • Pages – often more long-term. Could be more lengthy. (Pages do not have categories or tags.)
  • Can use blocks or not use blocks
  • To edit, append /wp-admin (there is more than one editing environment)

Google Sites

  • Uses Blocks (blocks of code, of information on the webpage)
  • Uses pages (no posts yet)

Wix

Weebly

other

Feb 08

Instrumental and Relational Understanding

Good article on instrumental and relational understanding.

Focus on Relational Understanding

Feb 07

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/

 

Nov 01

An angle inscribed in a semicircle

Hereis a tweet with a nice proof of the theorem that is the namesake of this website https://twitter.com/professorbrenda/status/1323095111954288640?s=21

Oct 12

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).

Jul 12

Tostitos fiesta bowl – some of the best highlights of all time

https://twitter.com/drolsen314/status/1282391894664851456?s=21

Jul 06

Look at problems as a diamond, with multiple facets, and not as a coin, With only two sides

Quote

Jun 29

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.

Apr 13

Nathan Karsjens website

Nathan Karsjens website is https://mednathan.wordpress.com/

Nathan is a mathematics major in secondary teacher education at Western Illinois University (and a Leatherneck football player).