Damion Beth

Thanks for this post. The MTBoS helped develop my math network greatly and many of the math friendships I have developed over the years is due to online networking. I never had the fortune of meeting@druinok.bsky.social in person, but we had communicated via Twitter many times, & she will be missed.

I'm switching it around and calculating 75% of 60. Divide 60 in half to get 30, and then add half of 30 back (15) to get 45.

#iteachmath #mtbos Does anyone have a course for students who are NOT ready yet for Algebra 2? After the Algebra 1, Geometry sequence?? With all students having to enter at Algebra 1, but then want to be ready for college options, many juniors are taking Alg 2 that do not have the needed skills.

Hi Howie! Hope everything is going well with you. Hopefully we cross paths again in the future.

Why is it so hard for students to remember and/or retrieve any information beyond 24 hours any longer?

Glad to be given the opportunity to present at the WMC Annual Conference again this coming May. I got two proposals accepted, one I've done before and one that is new. Can't wait to see everyone again! #iteachmath #wmc2025

Waste. Of. Time. Ugh.

Welp, break is done after tonight. 12 days off, I didn't step foot in school on 4 of them. Basketball season is a killer!
Let's get after it tomorrow!

Been a very basketball start to break after sending students off Friday. HS game Friday night, Bucks game Saturday night, Badger game this afternoon. Now I can relax a bit....

Happy birthday!

I feel you fully this year, my Alg2 class feels the same. 4 steps forward, 3 steps back the next class

Thanks! I'll look into it. Tough to create a lot new in the thick of hoops season.

Of my 69 Algebra 2 students, I have 16 that missed test day the last 2 days and need to make them up. I feel so defeated right now. Year 25 is on the struggle bus....

I am really REALLY struggling with student retention and accountability this year in my Algebra 2 classes. Ideas or hints?? We've done activities, practice, notes, discussions...if 5-10 minutes have passed, it's like what we just did or talked about never happened! #iteachmath #mtbos

"What did you do your first day of break?" I'm at school at 8am ready for practice. Same for Friday. That's the part I forget about; winter sport coaches really don't get their breaks due to practices and games.

Then I previewed the quadratic formula for her and she saw the x=-b/2a in it! Her mind was blown!!

Did completing the square visually with the box method today in Algebra 2. Student had a genuinely happy 'aha' moment seeing that a solution of x=4+-3 mean the axis of symmetry was at x=4 and the intercepts were each 3 units away!

Still one of my most favorite random signs I've seen in quite a while!

Am I missing something on this sign on many of our doors at our middle school? A door won't protect you if closed? If not, why have the door?

Oh my! You are one lucky person. I can only imagine the conversations...and the joy!

It's Friday, I've given tests in 4 of my 6 sections, and I only have 21 tests that need to get made up from missing class. Sweet!

Same. I've been looking since things started going sideways over there and have kind of felt lost. Happy to see familiar faces over here...like waking up from a long sleep.

Oh my goodness, for the first time in FOREVER, I feel like I'm connecting with the greater community again! I forgot how much I missed this good feeling! Now, if I could get my tech and hoops coaching stuff here, I'd be set to ditch the doom bird machine once and for all!

Thanks for sharing this list! Trying to get a foothold here after a year or so, and like how people can share these curated lists. Helps speed up the process.

5 days until I start Year 20 of coaching hoops. Looking forward to the group of boys we've got this year; gonna surprise some folks!

I'm going to call this a little win today; several times during our Alg 2 lesson I heard, "Logarithms are easy!". Win. #MTBoS

If someone had shown me this in high school, I would know a lot more math today. Integration was the first thing in math that seemed surprisingly difficult, and I assumed I just wasn't good at it rather than that it was inherently hard.
xkcd.com/2117/

That's why I kinda hate geometry sequenced after Alg 1; it's just disguised stupid algebra problems. We forget about the geometry context and true relationship understanding the course can provide.

Classic! I had a colleague that would write test questions like that...and forget to see if the answers made any sense. Just blind algebra.

I've never thought of the problem you posed on all the years I've taught geometry...never went that next step. Great prompt for kids.