Thank you so much for attending my session, “Math with a Purpose: Making Students Think“. I truly am passionate about finding ways to foster creative thinking in my math class and have been since I started teaching in 2003. I have consistently been on a mission to find new and
Yes, I am continuing to travel this school year and while I have several places I am working with right now to set up workshops, I have also got some great ones already booked! Interested in knowing where I will be then check out below. September begins with my hubby
I am SO excited to be in Tulsa today for the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference at Oklahoma State University! Not only do I get the pleasure to present to some amazing Oklahoma educators but I also have a booth set up in the exhibitor area with Interactive
Last week I had the privilege to work with a group of Kindergarten, First and Second Grade teachers in Southwest Georgia on how to incorporate Interactive Notebooks into their classroom setting as well as giving them strategies to benefit them! I will admit that when I was preparing for this
Wake up in the morning feeling mighty sleepy, got my layers on and I’m thinking I’ve got this city. Traveling all the way to the DF-Dub I’ve got this flight like it’s nothing bub. {Now go back and sing that to the tune of Ke$ha’s Tik Tok.} Yea, or so
So it’s January and we are all trying to recharge to make sure that we can make it through the last five months of the school year. There are limited breaks in the Spring and it also is now big “state testing” time for many that are coming up. So
This week has been a blast and it all started with a workshop that I gave in San Antonio, Texas for a group of 80 middle school teachers in all content areas from Math and Science to Woodworking and Nutrition. Yep! Everyone was there. I walked in and was amazed
This past weekend while preparing for my latest Interact with Me and Engage Me workshop in San Antonio, Texas I was chatting with my blogging buddies Jamie and Meg about a way to get the teachers back in the mindset of learning as it as the first day back from
It’s the first Wednesday of December which means it’s time for our linky – Math IS Real Life. If you want to see how the linky works, or just want other real world math ideas, check out the link-ups from August , September , October and November OR check out out Pinterest Board of all the posts so
Did you miss me? Wow, it feels like forever since I have blogged because all of last week was spent down in the lovely city of San Antonio, Texas conducting three different workshops on using Interactive Notebooks in the classroom. My first stop as down in South San Antonio ISD
Today brings back none other than Jonna The Great who is helping as the 4mulaFun assistant while presenting workshops once again in the lovely town of San Antonio. So a few weeks ago Jennifer asks if I was up for 1 more trip before school started and it involved NO
Listening: I will admit I have a daily habit of bouncing from Numbers to Bones to House to NCIS and some Law and Order SVU to help just have background noise on at home. Then about 90% of the time when I am on the computer I am on Skype
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