Math
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How I Teach Calculus: A Comedy (Concavity)
This post is a part a larger series documenting the changes I am making to my calculus course. My goals are to implement standards-based grading and to introduce genuine applications of the concepts being taught. I’m not suffering any delusions that any of this is all that ground-breaking, I just want to log the comedy [...]
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How I Teach Calculus: A Comedy (Implicit Differentiation)
This post is a part a larger series documenting the changes I am making to my calculus course. My goals are to implement standards-based grading and to introduce genuine applications of the concepts being taught. I’m not suffering any delusions that any of this is all that ground-breaking, I just want to log the comedy [...]
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How I Teach Calculus: A Comedy (The Product Rule)
This post is a part a larger series documenting the changes I am making to my calculus course. My goals are to implement standards-based grading and to introduce genuine applications of the concepts being taught. I’m not suffering any delusions that any of this is all that ground-breaking, I just want to log the comedy [...]
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How I Teach Calculus: A Comedy (Income Taxes!)
This post is a part a larger series documenting the changes I am making to my calculus course. My goals are to implement standards-based grading and to introduce genuine applications of the concepts being taught. I’m not suffering any delusions that any of this is all that ground-breaking, I just want to log the comedy [...]
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How I Teach Calculus: A Comedy (The Power Rule)
This post is a part a larger series documenting the changes I am making to my calculus course. My goals are to implement standards-based grading and to introduce genuine applications of the concepts being taught. I’m not suffering any delusions that any of this is all that ground-breaking, I just want to log the comedy [...]
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How I Teach Calculus: A Comedy (Limit Definition of the Derivative)
This post is a part a larger series documenting the changes I am making to my calculus course. My goals are to implement standards-based grading and to introduce genuine applications of the concepts being taught. I’m not suffering any delusions that any of this is all that ground-breaking, I just want to log the comedy [...]
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How I Teach Calculus: A Comedy
I then show how the text book distills the idea down to a lifeless corpse, and I assign ungraded practice problems. To act as a foil to my ongoing series on Standards-Based Grading, I would like to provide you all with a more in-depth study of how I think a math class should be run, [...]
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Standards-Based Grading: Math (1 of 7)
This is the first in a series on the implementation of standards-based grading in specific disciplines. A lot has already been written on this subject that I hope to expand on. A bit of motivation before moving on: Ask yourself, “Does my gradebook mean anything to anyone other than myself? How can I use assessment [...]
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Rabbits vs. Wolves
This blog entry is more of an announcement than anything else. I have a separate page linked above specifically for web apps that I will develop and provide support for. My goal is to provide you all with a useful set of web apps that are directly linked to specific content standards and allow for [...]