Comments on: That Is Not What I Meant

By: ST FOLK, come out of hiding please! | Sup Teach?

ST FOLK, come out of hiding please! | Sup Teach? — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:02:55 +0000

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By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:53 +0000

I send this stuff to you because you seem like you might actually enjoy figuring out if you could use it. http://www.teachers.tv/video/21597

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:58:15 +0000

Yes, but just wait until the girl in this picture starts coming out of the projector screen, then you will really get the student’s attention! Maybe you can use CNN’s holographic technology!

By: Jason Dyer

Jason Dyer — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:56:17 +0000

Of course, using the picture to ask how many degrees her head seems to be turned is more like it!

If I remember my scary movies correctly, her hair is just covering her face.

The Exorcist is the head-spinny one.

By: Brian Cormier

Brian Cormier — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:40:59 +0000

That’s good stuff. Dan, I know you know this, but I’ll say it anyway. It’s just like math basketball. The basketball part is certainly not part of the curriculum, but if you can use it to keep interest up and have them vigorously bang out a bunch of problems, do it! The scary pictures will motivate the kids to do the problems just so they can see the next one.

Of course, using the picture to ask how many degrees her head seems to be turned is more like it!

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:15:02 +0000

I’ve found that I can shock and horrify my students without even using scary clips or photos…. but just by asking them to derive the Distance Formula from the Pythagorean Theorem!!