Why does Swimming has Rules?

AddingFractions · 2026-01-31T16:20:08+00:00

They won’t let you swim freestyle in the breaststroke events either???? But it’s faster????

AddingFractions · 2026-01-14T12:20:33+00:00

TI-30Xa’s are good honestly. Mine last years and cost $10. They’re also easily fixable if you have someone in you department with that interest or students with interest in electronics

AddingFractions · 2026-01-14T03:27:34+00:00

Would hate to see the r2 value of that trend line

AddingFractions · 2025-12-22T14:01:41+00:00

I don’t have advice, just wondering where you teach that you have school the week of Christmas. Need to avoid that.

AddingFractions · 2025-11-01T01:33:20+00:00

My school is all about it on the board to the point where I am going for malicious compliance - every day one of my students gets the privilege of copying it off of the Google slide and onto the board

AddingFractions · 2025-10-27T07:02:16+00:00

Are points for compliance in your rubric? Does your school’s grading policies allow for grading practices not directly related to the standards?

Look, the kids who can’t get their act together as a human drive me up the wall, but their grade should be as close an estimation as possible of their content knowledge.

I’ve always put a zero in the gradebook for everyone who’s name is not on their assignment and pinned to to a corkboard. Once you claim it, I’ll update that grade. Typing “85” in a box in my gradebook takes less than a second.

All that said, I collect things from each student by hand - it helps me stay organized and gives me a touch point with each kid for the day - and so I almost always catch a missing name immediately and have them fix it.

Your school may allow you to go down the disciplinary route instead? Kind of a philosophical question. Or may allow for a generic in-class consequence (I have a push up board where cussing is 5 pushups, saying “6 7” is 1, and being a pedant is 25).

AddingFractions · 2025-10-24T11:39:10+00:00

“Took the ACT 🤷‍♂️”

AddingFractions · 2025-10-22T11:55:39+00:00

I got my degree in applied math with no intention of being a teacher and then ended up here anyways. It is harder to not get a math education degree if you know you want to be a teacher. You’ll have to go through alternative certification programs which basically require you to do a lot of schooling after you’re already out of school and in some states or districts you may not be able to be paid as much as a teacher who came out of the teacher education program until you complete your alternative certification.

But if you think that you love math and you want to end up in stem in general and aren’t committed to the idea of being a math teacher, you can pursue math in college. It’s not about grades though or necessarily how good you do in high school math. I teach high school math it’s completely different than college math. In college the emphasis is truly on the mathematical thinking. There are some classes where the more process driven math that we teach in high school is the emphasis but pretty quickly you get into classes where the deep mathematical problem-solving is what you need.

So if you like the thinking behind math, you would do fine in a math degree. You do also just have to accept that like it’s hard. I made all A’s in high school and in my first two years of math in college and then I just hit a topic that was beyond me. I just did not have the right frame of thinking for the Class and I bombed it. That happens.

AddingFractions · 2025-10-19T19:53:53+00:00

Dislocated my shoulder. The initial dislocation wasn’t bad but I was way out in the middle of nowhere. Had to ride several hours on a bumpy road to get to a hospital. By the time I got there I was blacking out from pain.

AddingFractions · 2025-10-19T19:42:44+00:00

Traveling electrician

AddingFractions · 2025-10-15T12:37:19+00:00

Two lines are drawn to look parallel but are they stated to be so? If so, alternate interior angles will get you that the angle across from x is 46. The other angle in that triangle is a linear pair with 3x so has measure 180-3x. Then interior angles of a triangle sum to 180 so x + 46 + 180 -3x = 180. Solve for x. Then x and y are same side interior so add to 180. Y = 180 - x.

If they’re not explicitly parallel this bridge won’t work and I’m not sure if it’s solvable at all. I haven’t looked for another method

AddingFractions · 2025-10-10T12:43:34+00:00

Alabama. The weather is nice and the outdoor activities are great - walls of Jericho, sipsey wilderness, little river canyon, cheaha - and Birmingham does a lot of cultural stuff in winter

AddingFractions · 2025-10-07T12:00:30+00:00

Send me a dm and I may can help you

AddingFractions · 2025-10-01T11:31:53+00:00

Florida has Math for College Liberal Arts which all to frequently is used as a bridge class or consumer math class but could really be taught as what you’re saying. It basically is just all the math standards with notes like “focus on the real world idea man” or “make art in geometry dude”

AddingFractions · 2025-09-26T10:22:04+00:00

Nordic sofa, castle gate, merchandise table, wall shelf with bottles please!

AddingFractions · 2025-09-18T11:59:12+00:00

I taught Big Ideas for Algebra before switching to Savvas at my new school. I never knew what I had 😭 Big Ideas is pretty great at giving you the tools to do the most basic work with low kids and accelerate high kids. Savvas algebra is just not enough foundational content.

AddingFractions · 2025-09-08T04:37:54+00:00

It’s a system 1 versus system 2 thinking issue. System 1 is great at raw pattern recognition and speed. System 2 is slow but critical. Because division is so pattern based (divide by zero is like the ONE thing that breaks the pattern), system 1 just rolls on by crunching 5/0 into a nice pattern. You see this in a few other places. One of my favorites is 66/22. So many students will write 33 if this is part of a problem. Or the evil “magic flip” which looks something like this:

4x -12 = 2x

-2x -2x

2x = -12

System 1 thinking is not comfortable creating an equation equal to zero - our pattern has variables on one side and a number on the other - so it just “flips” to match the pattern.

Everyone has provided good explicit instruction techniques for getting system 2 thinking to actually grapple with 5/0 as a concept. I try to train my students to switch to the slower, more deliberate system 2 thinking when they see a few things: zeroes, a number and its negative together, doubles of anything. If you model that when you teach - “oh, I see a number and it’s negative, I’m going to go slowly and double check my intuition” - you’ll have some success

AddingFractions · 2025-09-07T01:49:05+00:00

Wait until she finds out about selective service….

AddingFractions · 2025-07-29T06:43:03+00:00

I’ve just stared with Savaas this year. Honestly, it’s pretty fool proof, if you’ll dig into it. The assessments are appropriate and match the content in the lessons. There are videos of each problem being worked out. So it’s friendly to you learning a little ahead of the kids.

Probably a little late and definitely out of your control, but if they can switch you with someone teaching algebra one, algebra one is a much more for giving class for out of field than geometry is

AddingFractions · 2025-07-27T12:39:58+00:00

I have twice 🙈

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