This school year is off to a fast start. Already we a juggling multiple assignments from English, science, social studies and math. We have been feverishly reviewing strategies for reading expository text and discussing ways to improve our writing. We’ve already had several assessments in math. As we review our daily assignments, we are working [...]

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Yesterday Mr. Bryden, our head custodian, came into my first period math class with a real problem. He had a bag of fertilizer and he was looking out the window at the peace garden planted in the lawn below. He was trying to determine how many bags of fertilizer he would need to fertilize the [...]

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Pre-Algebra class was completely silent yesterday. As students arrived I put my finger to my lips and zipped them, pointed toward their seats and made the universal gesture for sit down and read (i.e. I put my hands together as in prayer then opened them like a book and stared at them.) Clever students that [...]

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