Audience:
8th – 12th Algebra I
Objective:
Students will plot points on a graph given the coordinates and determine the coordinates given a set of points.
Month: October 2006
Total 7 Posts
School is great plus or minus a few off days. Today we played battleships in Algebra but instead using the traditional letter-number grid format, we practiced coordinate geometry. Instead of B4, for instance, they say (2,-4). We played boys-versus-girls. The losing team had a minor-league homework assignment over the weekend. My first period class had a nail-biter straight to — I’m serious — the last shot. Watch for the highlights on Sports Center, they were that crazy.
As I greeted students outside Geometry today, I heard JG yelling my way:
Heyyy, I found WALDO!
[Updated: Here’s the narration and slidedeck of my presentation. QuickTime movie. 20 MB.]
I was the second segment. The longest. My department head laughed on his way in and called me a sucker. Under different circumstances he would’ve been right. But I knew why I was there.
I gave my talk twice today … once in a cafeteria full of teachers and once in my pajamas to a room full of nobody. The one with the teachers felt much better.
