Meaningful Math Effort

1) Think out loud.

2) Get it no matter how impossible seems. Make it make sense, keep going keep going and don't give up.

3) Your skill doesn't matter, it is not innate

4) Master it if you have the attitude

5) Success is taking 22 minutes on something that typically someone only takes 5 seconds to give up on.

Make your culture undefined

Any number divided by zero

Math means something because I wanted an explanation

Math was unusual.

I had the will to succeed because I wouldn't just walk away.


I was not a math natural

Homework tonight is MORE Circles

Tangents tonight and Blog over the weekend. The blog will be about MCAS 3rd grade and how it relates to what we are doing now. DO you think you can relate geometry to any of the material?

http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/search/default.asp?intro=yes

February 12, 2009

Homework on Tangents and Secants