Overusing Teachers’ Websites
Getting homework assignments on-line from teachers’ websites is wonderful. However, overusing the service has a down side—it erodes responsibility.
The old-fashioned way of copying assignments from the board, legibly, and gathering the books and materials, requires a variety of valuable life skills. It also requires responsibility, the ‘R’ on our acronym STRONG.
If assignments are available only […]
What do pies have to do with math?
“What do pies have to do with math? I looked up ‘pie’ in the math book and couldn’t find it.” This was a frazzled parent talking. It sounds like a cute math joke, but it’s true.
The word is spelled pi. It is a cute Greek letter that stands for a number a little bigger than […]
Geometry Proofs Made Easy
Remember geometry proofs? For many students, they are the basis of recurring nightmares.
Here is good news; they don’t have to be. Just do them as if you were telling a story. Huh? Bear with me.
If you were telling a story about your trip to a beach, is there any way you would mess things up […]
