by Carrie Duncan | Jun 17, 2019 | Grades 9–12
Six months ago, I hated trigonometry. By Becca Phillips In fact, when my daughter missed a week of school, she announced on her first day back, “Someone has to teach me trig because I missed the whole thing.” Her father jumped in, “That’ll be me. Your mother hates...
by Carrie Duncan | Mar 18, 2019 | Grades 9–12, Professional Learning
By Kate Nowak When I was teaching high school mathematics, my local colleagues and I spent a whole lot of time creating problem-based lessons. We were convinced that this style of instruction was a good way to learn, but the textbooks in use at our school simply...
by Carrie Duncan | Feb 3, 2019 | Grades 9–12
By Sadie Estrella Illustrative Mathematics’ high school curriculum is scheduled to be released this summer. This is an exciting time for Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 teachers. I honestly am ready to take a job at a school just to have the opportunity to teach...
by Carrie Duncan | Jan 21, 2019 | Grades 9–12
By William McCallum What are extraneous solutions? A while ago I wrote a blog post about solving equations where I talked about seeing the steps in solving equations as logical deductions. Thus the steps \begin{align*}3x + 2 &= 5\\3x &= 3\\x &= 1\\...
