Blackboard Notes

Since I started blogging (not as well as others I admit-- see my first post HERE ), I have tried improving communication about what math is (and IS NOT- wish I could remember that post by Tracy Zager).  My new focus involves what I have found successful in students (while not necessarily successful by the district standards I've had to work with).  The students crave something new, not something old, while inspirational storytelling can get the job done no matter how old the story is.  Also, I am focusing more on intuition, reasoning, and sense making and not just the "rules of mathematics," which many students have turned off to once they hear Theorem, Proof, or Justify. I admit I have not researched methods lately, but have kept in contact of people whose pedagogy and scholarship I trust to do that.  As mentioned before, I have outsourced ideas from Making Math Moments , Lane Walker's Blog , NCTM , and many of the resources listed in my previous blog. My plan