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Truthfully, collective bargaining in teaching only makes great teachers get paid the same as shitty teachers. After 2 years, it is extremely hard to fire a teacher..... Thanks to the California election of 2006
I will tutor locally
Sorry, no
The Shop
If so, when he gets in high school, save up some money and take him to HCRI in Virginia. Just about the only place with verifiable near-to-100 fluency rate. Cost me about 5000 bucks total from California
He once passed out test results and mine had some porting specs stapled to it.
If a kid decides to do research for a summer they might get a stipend of 3K-5K. A NY based quant internship can pay over 8K per month for 3 months! That's hard money to walk away from knowing that it only goes up from there!
Number theory is usually one of the first proof based classes you take after intro to proofs, intro to set theory, or intro to logic. They will help young students learn to prove truths in mathematics and understand that math is the only place where absolute truths again.
Are you talking about quantum mechanics?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Koblitz
I get the "pure math" thing. That was his big reason not to simply jump on board the Applied Math major. He thought about double majoring, but with the "comprehensive" math degree, he'll get his BS 3 years out of HS and be aiming for a decent grad school.
This fall he has Math 402-Modern Algebra, Math 424 Fundamental Concepts of Analysis, and Math 441 Topology. He's also got a Classics and a French class thrown in for his "spare time". Going to be a busy quarter for him for sure!
Please tell him to save some GE classes for Senior year. It's death with only major classes your year.
I had a good time for my first time hosting BTSN. I have never been able to meet many parents at the other school sites I was at. I wasn't very nervous, thought I did ok, parents seemed to like me. Some of the parents who I wished were there, were not....
Looking at his "ratemyprofessor" comments, it sounds like my son isn't the only one who enjoyed the guy, but he may be in the minority.
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=38925
he was in testing all week to re-evaluate. have a meeting soon to get results.
even with his IEP he has managed to make honor roll a few times. biggest problem is 0 interest in school.
There is no perfection other than math. Humans doing math is not perfection
Pit Row
The Japanese kamikaze pilot in WWII who flew 35 missions was probably interested in being successful at his job, but he wasn't really committed......
Our area is currently going through a very expensive issue because of a minor arithmetic error. An engineer made a very small mistake in his calculations for the Wanapum Dam on the Columbia River. This little arithmetic mistake has meant some drastic changes in the pool levels behind several dams, affected irrigation and recreation, and resulted in something like $70 million in direct repair costs to the dam itself.
While I understand your desire to make a student feel good about their efforts, what mechanism will you employ to get to the point that accuracy is crucial? Is there a plan to begin holding that student accountable for completely correct answers or will you continue to allow incorrect computation for the entire term? Will you give each and every student this leniency? If a student makes small arithmetic mistakes on every question on a final exam, would you overlook that also?
I'm not bagging on you, so I hope it doesn't come off that way. I actually envy you because you obviously have much more patience than I do if you've chosen teaching as a profession. When my children were in K-2 grades I used to go help teach reading in their classes and I quickly realized that their teachers had a gift that I simply didn't possess.
That being said, I think the best thing that a teacher can give a student is to hold themselves to high standards. I remember when my oldest started middle school and started receiving letter grades on assignments. She came home one day and said something to the effect that her teacher had only "given" her a B+ on an assignment. First thing I did was to correct her and say that the teacher hadn't "given" her a B+, she'd earned a B+ and the teacher was just letting her know that that was the level of her work.
Good luck with your class this year and thank you for choosing a career that can make such a huge difference not just in the lives of your students, but in their next generations also. I truly believe that the expectations I have for my kids and their education is directly influenced by several of my teachers.
make sense of problems & persevere in solving them
reason abstractly & quantitatively
construct viable arguments & critique the reasoning of others
model with mathematics
use appropriate tools strategically
attend to precision
look for & make use of structure
look for & express regularity in repeated reasoning
If you are letting arithmetic mistakes slide right now, how will this affect them next term when another teacher holds them accountable for not only understanding the process, but also for getting the correct answer?
Truthfully, though, Common Core is more about the process and not the final answer. The final answer is important on a test, but the process is more important. These are children; they are not perfect
The process is only important if you get the correct answer. The process is designed to help you get the correct answer. The process(es) are tools, not the ultimate goal.
As in my example above about our local hydro dam math error, should the engineer who made the mistake be given full credit because he followed processes, or should he have actually gotten his arithmetic correct.
Would you like to fly knowing that the engineer who designed the wings on the airplane didn't actually have to find the correct answers to get his engineering degree? Or would you rather that he was held to a standard of getting the correct answers in order to continue through his degree?
This isn't about always being perfect, but in mathematics being perfect should be the goal. One error isn't going to fail anyone, but ignoring errors will eventually lead to failure of the student.
All I could ask for is a teacher that was passionate about what he/she was teaching. Sounds like you have that -- I hope the kids can respect you for it because that's what makes all the difference from my perspective.
The professional engineer should be held responsible for his mistake. How long has he been doing this? At the beginning of a concept, students are given leniency. After they do it more and more, as the year goes, they will be held more responsible for their computations.
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