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#21 Mathematical Symbols by Emmanuel, Daniella & Kathleen

March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment

You are a mathematical symbol. (+, =, pi, x, , etc.) Introduce yourself to a young child, explaining what your life is like, why you are important and how you deal with other symbols in your mathematical world.
Emmanuel S.
“Who are you?” asked the young boy.
“I am a very important mathematical symbol,” [...]

Mar

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#23 Music and Math by Autumn and Rudo

March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment

How are Music and Math related?
Rudo

Math and Music are actually really similar if you think about it. When you are playing music you have to read the right note length, and when you are doing math you have to solve a question using the right numbers. So in Music there are these things called measures, [...]

Feb

14

M.C. Escher

February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I had an incredible experience today when I went to the Boca Raton Museum of Art.  There I spent 3 glorious hours viewing the work of M.C. Escher.  I first became aware of Escher when I started my classes on their study of tessellations. Then when my son moved back to Florida he brought with [...]

Feb

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#26 Favorite Classroom Tech by Rachel C & Dominick A

February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Think about how technology has benefited our classroom. Our principal has decided that students in our school can have new technology for all of your classrooms. Which technologies you would recommend should be in all classrooms to benefit our learning and why.
Rachel C
How does technology benefit our classroom? Technology has benefited our classroom in many [...]

Feb

7

Generous Students & Parents

February 7, 2010 | 2 Comments

As you know last Saturday I participated in the 2010 Susan G. Komen South Florida Race for the Cure®. Thank you for supporting my efforts. Due to your support and the support of the classes, I was able to meet and exceed my financial goal of $500.
It was a marvelous race with one of the [...]

Feb

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# 27 How we use computers in 2010 by Garrett & Avalois

February 7, 2010 | 1 Comment

Prompt #27: The computer has become a most important part of everyone’s life. Most of us have difficulty imagining what it could be like to live without it. Write an essay explaining how the American family uses it for business, pleasure, and emergencies. Assume that this will be published as a part of an encyclopedia [...]

Jan

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#28 Should we ban homework? by Alec, Manisha & Hannah

January 31, 2010 | 10 Comments

Alec G
Homework Be Gone! Hooray! No homework! Most kids enjoy the pleasure of not having any math homework. But I say yes to math homework. Math homework is the easiest subject, it’s my favorite, and you always come up with a definite answer.
To start things off, math is the easiest subject. All the methods are explained [...]

Jan

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A Big Thank You by Kyle Webb

January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments

Shortly after the New Year I received a very nice note from Kyle.  For those of you who do not know, Kyle mentored our class remotely from Saskatchewan, Canada. Kyle has given me permission to share his letter.
Ms. Ionno & Class,
It was such a pleasure working with you and your students this past semester.  Despite [...]

Jan

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#2 STOP…In the name of MATH! No more Calculator by Ari & Rachel Z

January 18, 2010 | 6 Comments

Essay #2 Persuade your friends to stop relying on a calculator for simple calculations.
Ariana D
You’re in math class working on how to solve larger problems with simpler ones.  Your friend gets called on and the math teacher asks, “So what is 63/7?” You watch as your friend sneaks out a calculator.  They’ve been doing it [...]

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#7 What is your favorite branch of math? by Brieonna

January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Most people like one particular branch of math more than others. What is your favorite part of math and why is it your favorite?
My favorite part of math is Algebra. I like doing Algebra because it makes sense to me. If you learn the basic laws of Algebra you can always do it. The deeper [...]

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