Comments on: So Hold Onto Something /2007/so-hold-onto-something/ less helpful Wed, 05 Oct 2016 20:23:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Maria H. Andersen /2007/so-hold-onto-something/#comment-45160 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:29:14 +0000 /?p=548#comment-45160 You said “you haven’t met another math teacher as consumed by information design as I am”… but that’s just because you haven’t met us! We’re out there!

I’m commenting in a couple of links to brand new materials for algebra.

PDF of Teasers

Animation of Domain and Range

Also, David Hill (of demos with positive impact – a calculus resource) has started working on some algebra demos. Coming soon is a demo showing the infamous concentration problems (mix 20 mL of a 10% solution with 80 mL of a 50% solution…).

The long-needed revision of algebra materials is coming… I promise… and it’s going to be so cool and visually appealing that it’s going to knock your socks off. But it’s going to take a couple years to get through all the programming. (that’s foreshadowing, BTW)

]]> By: dan /2007/so-hold-onto-something/#comment-43941 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:04:49 +0000 /?p=548#comment-43941 Oh man. What a great time: Umbrella banging outta the speakers, a bunch of long-unseen friends, not a t.v. or a second hand among us, so we just raised glasses arbitrarily sometime around 11:59 Pacific Time and counted down.

I hope the two of you had as much fun as I did, enough to forget about classroom obsessions for a bit, but now we’re back and I’m pumped to have Neil back with us this go-around.

]]> By: Neil Winton /2007/so-hold-onto-something/#comment-43903 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:57:27 +0000 /?p=548#comment-43903 Happy New Year… and “Yaay! ‘Nother compo!”

]]> By: Lori Jablonski /2007/so-hold-onto-something/#comment-43597 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:36:49 +0000 /?p=548#comment-43597 I should have added that the hunting of the elusive and the magnificent is the stuff — meaningful, thrilling and, yes, dangerous too. It is bound to disappoint at times–sometimes achingly so. But I don’t know how to teach any other way and I would guess neither do you. I am so very glad you seem re-energized to keep on with the voyage. Here’s to the friends, the beer, the games, and whatever else that help keep us sane.

]]> By: Lori Jablonski /2007/so-hold-onto-something/#comment-43592 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:56:14 +0000 /?p=548#comment-43592 Nice. Can’t wait– although with your math stuff I only understand about a quarter of what I see (which will limit my direct participation, hope you don’t mind if continue to hide out in the back of the class).

While I am not consumed with information design, I too am after the same whale: energizing my subject so it becomes fiercely relevant to my students. It is one of the things I love most about the job and what I thoroughly enjoy about your work here.

You are indeed inspiring, young man.

Happy New Year. Have fun with your “dad gum” video games.

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