Some Quadratic Equations

 

I havenn't posted math in a bit so here goes.  If you are teaching quadratics and need a couple of questions for an assignment or an exam I found these on naikermaths website.  To see the questions click here and the solutions click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the Black Friday ads below.  

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How to Be a Better Role Model for Your Students

 

You are a teacher.  You are a super hero.  You are a role model.  Want to be better?  Sure you do.  So you need to read here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the Black Friday ads below.  

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How To Handle The Student Disrespect Sweeping The Country

 

Michael Linsin says the usual steps are always needed such as: set clear boundaries, being 100% consistent, have calm enforcement and stay cool.  To read the other strategies click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the Black Friday ads below.  

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Student-Created Review: Engage Your Learners and Save Time!

 

To our US friends, Happy Thanksgiving Day.  I could just put up a picture of a turkey and call it a day but some of you will actually want to read something so here goes.  As a teacher you do most of the work.  Dr. Tucker posts about having your students do all the review.  To read the article click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.  

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Do You Hate Boring PowerPoint Slide Presentations?

 

Of course you hate boring 100 bullet pointed PowerPoint slides that your students just read.  I always told my students keep a picture and a few key words on the slide that's it.  Period.  You can have other things written on a sheet of paper but no need for your audience just to read also.  Richard Byrne talks about his 10-30-30 rule for student presentations.  To read the article click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.  

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Instead of Being the Phone Police, This Teacher Tried A Restorative Approach to Cell Phones

 

Every teacher has had to deal with kids not wearing their masks and using their phones in class when they are not suppose to.  Emma-Kate Shaake writes about how she has lowered the unauthorized use of phone use in her class.  To read the article click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.  

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Campaign Against Library Censorship

As a former Librarian I believe that a diverse selection of literature is necessary in a school.  Classics, Contemporary, Graphic Novels, fluff, whatever.  I also believe that our libraries need to reflect the diversity of our clientele.    I am totally against censorship of books.  I don't think we need Fahrenheit 451 happening in real life.  I do love Ray Bradbury's writing.   What is going on in Texas and other states I find to be just crazy.  I am not trying to make this political as I have not done much of that in this blog but Librarians need to make sure that we give students the opportunity to think and decide on their own.  What I like you may not and what you like I may not.  Doesn't matter.  Pick a different book if you are offended.  That being said here is a good article for any Librarian or English teacher, just click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.   The JBL ear buds below are a great price again.  I might even buy a pair at $89 for myself.

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Make Units More Inspiring with Vision Boards

Want to make learning more visible for your students?  Sure you do.  According to Amanda Cardenas, "A unit vision board is a lesson planning tool that allows teachers to imagine their units as an experience and think through what it would feel like to be part of that experience."  For example this is an example for The Great Gatsby.

She has a folder that has many examples.  To see her article and podcast click here, hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.   The JBL ear buds below are a great price again.  I might even buy a pair at $89 for myself.

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5 Lessons For Teachers From Ted Lasso

T&L has a nice article on using Ted Lasso to model what you can do as an educator in the classroom.  It is a quick read and hopefully you are already doing some of this.  To read the article click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.   The JBL ear buds below are a great price again.  I might even buy a pair at $89 for myself.

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Pixar’s 10 rules for teaching and lesson planning

 

This website always has something.  Today I am posting a link to their summary for educators for the classroom  of Emma Coats rules for storytelling that she used at Pixar.  To see this summary either click here to read the article or look at the image below,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.   The JBL ear buds below are a great price again.  I might even buy a pair at $89 for myself.

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Youglish for ESL Pronunciation

 

I know that some students  learning English will use google and type "How to say" and then type the word.  It works but it does not give context.  If you are teaching ESL or ELL you might show this site to your students.  It actually shows real people on youtube using the word.  Also if you are Canadian you can use the drop down menu and select Canada or whatever accent you want.   To see the site click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.

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4 Ways to Make Parent-Teacher Conferences Easier

 

We all love parent teacher interviews.  It is a great time to discuss issues with the parents you really want to see.  Okay that might be dripping with sarcasm but parent teacher interviews can be very important for those 4 or 5 kids that  really might make the difference.  To see this article click here,  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.

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Why Understanding Data Visualization is Key

 

Todays post reminded me of back in teachers college (yes I know the 1800s) we had a prof I call Dr Flooby Stats as he always would produce a graph and state something about it that I would always lose my mind over his interpretation.  The worst was when he had a bar graph with no vertical data and no sample size.  One bar would be twice the size of the others  and he would say that this bar was much larger than that bar and blah blah blah.  I would raise my hand and say your data has no values so I cannot judge myself.  When pressed on his data it usually turned out that one bar was only a couple percent larger as when he put real numbers on the chart it was not to scaled from zero.  He would then say, "well it is statistically significant".  I would then usually say something like, I should be the judge of that.  You should place numbers on your graphs and tell me what the sample size is.  If you would like to read the article that reminded me of this click here, hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.

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News Literacy lessons on Facebook, Marjorie Taylor Greene and more

 

If you are teaching anything to do with online literacy and deciding whether something is fact or fake you should definitely read the article in the Washington Post. The article highlights the New Literacy Project and the website Checkology which "helps educators teach middle and high school students how to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources, and know what to trust, what to dismiss and what to debunk."  To see the article click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.

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New York Times Word of the Day

 

Yesterday I posted about the S.A.T. Word of the Day Free on Amazon but you need Alexa.  If you don't have Alex then no worries.  The NYT has you covered.  They post the word of the day.  If you are studying for the S.A.T. you might want to download a list of words such as these 500 and make flash cards using the link I have at the bottom.   To see the NYT's word of the day click  here,  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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S.A.T. Word of the Day Free on Amazon

 

Getting something for free is always nice.  If you or your students are studying for the Scholastic Aptitude Test or better known as the  S.A.T. and if you own an Alexa then you can enable it free to respond to queries like “Alexa, start SAT Word of the Day.” If you are studying for the S.A.T. you might want to download a list of words such as these 500 and make flash cards using the link I have at the bottom.  To see the amazon site click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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National STEM Day

 

Today is National STEM Day in the USA and if you would like to see some good sites to peruse, Discovery Education is always a good place to start.  To read their article click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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Certify'em

 

I used to get in a beaucoup of trouble putting an Atta Boy certificate in a colleague's mailbox when they did something I thought was a bit stupid.  That being said if your students do something great (you define) and you are using google forms for a quiz then you can have them receive a certificate automatically.  To see how click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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Before you blast the oilsands, check your own carbon footprint — and get ready to plant a lot of trees

 

I just read a very interesting article.  The following jpgs illustrate the main parts of the article.

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A lesson in Indigenous traditional math

 If you would like to integrate Indigenous knowledge into your curriculum then read the following article by clicking here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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76 Videos on Food Chemisty

 

Reactions has a ton of short on topic videos of food chemistry.  To see videos like Better Pizza Through Chemistry click here,  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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