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Noggin Elastics: 2010-05
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. On the subject of slideshows. For this reason, I will briefly outline the talk below. Slide One: The Gadget. Slide Two: Ivy Mike. After mentioning that the first nuclear test occurred in July 1945, I projected a rendition of the Ivy Mike. Test I used my hands to indicate the approximate scale of the picture. I mentioned the TNT-equivalent of the first nuclear test and tried to describe the sheer magnitude of the event. Slide Six: Atoms for Peace. During...
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Noggin Elastics: Stemming the Tide
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. While not entirely relevant to high school learning, there was recently a House panel on STEM education at the college level. The participants were informative and offered suggestions on improving the declining fields. Fixing US STEM education is possible, but will take money. Something to think about. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Noggin Elastics: 2009-12
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. I have a love/hate relationship with Wolfram. For example, Wolfram Alpha. Is a wonderful resource for online calculations, but it's coupled with a very restrictive user agreement. Likewise, Mathematica has tremendous functionality, but I always hated its notation. Well, I now have a reason to both be afraid of Wolfram, and be scared for the future of high school homework. I present to you, dear reader,. The short of it? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Noggin Elastics: Sound Principles
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. Today I gave my first large presentation to my two classes. On an earlier occasion I did a short talk on the LCROSS. In the application portion of my talk, I went over many subjects. The first one was on turntablism. Careful it’s nearly 20 MB). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Persistence Persistence Persistence Persistence.
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Noggin Elastics: Lillian's Lines
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. On the suggestion of Max over at the MathForum, I recently did a Problem of the Week called Lillian's Lines (#5180). In our discussions, we found that some of the problems I had done in the past were a bit abstract for the students to really get a hold of. In contrast, this one had a very straightforward solution (provided active participation and understanding of the rules), and several more in-depth solutions. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Noggin Elastics: 2010-01
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. When in the course of human events. It becomes necessary to tell a student "Alex! Get your hands out of your pants," you begin to wonder if self-discipline is something of a problem. Don't worry, the situation wasn't quite as lewd as the wording would suggest (he had gym shorts on underneath and was trying to hide his phone while texting), but the phrase caused a ruckus nonetheless. After the last attempt. Was also futile. Usually, the quicker stude...
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Noggin Elastics: 2009-09
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. I forgot how much of a rush high school was. As soon as each bell rings you see people spilling out into the halls as if the levies just broke. These are just some brief impressions for the moment, I had class again today, which I'll elaborate on in a short while. Once more unto the breach. My first day in class will be this Friday. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Once more unto the breach.
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Noggin Elastics: Causality
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. As mentioned in the prior post, some of the students' behavior is disrespectful, absurd, destructive and a whole list of other things I'd rather not say. To provide some examples;. S military-style discipline. Even if the school adopted stringent and uniform policies that were enforced equally by each teacher, the necessary momentum to change the attitude of high schoolers has got to be enormous. March 13, 2010 at 7:44 PM.
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Noggin Elastics: 2010-02
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. Sorry for the lack of updates in recent weeks. Thursdays and Fridays have been very popular for teacher development days, wisdom teeth extraction, and (upcoming) Winter Break. On the bright side, this gave me a chance to work with Mike. Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems. Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory. High schoolers really like Jimmy John's. The trip may have been better with some more hands-on acti...
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Noggin Elastics: The Nuclear Option
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Experiences as a Teaching Fellow at Ypsilanti High. On the subject of slideshows. For this reason, I will briefly outline the talk below. Slide One: The Gadget. Slide Two: Ivy Mike. After mentioning that the first nuclear test occurred in July 1945, I projected a rendition of the Ivy Mike. Test I used my hands to indicate the approximate scale of the picture. I mentioned the TNT-equivalent of the first nuclear test and tried to describe the sheer magnitude of the event. Slide Six: Atoms for Peace. During...
