My all-time favorite piece of software is Graphing Equations and Green Globs. The program has several components but Green Globs is what stole my heart. Figure 11-7 The game is simple to understand. When you start up the novice game, thirteen globs appear randomly scattered on a coordinate grid. (See figure 11-7.) The student’s goal…
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I don’t know about you, but I’m enjoying watching exciting reruns of football games from the NFL and College games. Also basketball NBA and College. I grew up in Pittsburgh so I’m still a huge Pirate and Steeler fan. I recently watched the 7th game of the 1971 World Series between the Pirates and Baltimore….
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April 1, 2020 With the advent of the Coronavirus and closed schools, NCTM has made available webinars for their upcoming 100 days of professional learning starting today, April 1. I tried to sign up for the opening session this evening but it was already closed out. A thousand teachers were already signed up. Can you…
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