Musings from Mrs. Galvan

I have gotten behind on updating my blog. I will get more into my excuses in my next post. I know I am almost two weeks late, but I must join the bandwagon of those proclaiming the awesomeness of Edcamp. I went to EdCampLA on January 17th and ended up leading two discussions. My most recent experience giving a session at a conference had been presenting at  UCLA Mathematics Department's Philip C. Curtis Jr. Center for Mathematics and Teaching Conference last February. It was a complete flop as I failed to consider that most of the attendees would not be lucky enough to work at schools with thriving 1:1 programs... #fail So, I was quite nervous when I ended up leading a session on student blogging. Luckily, leading turned into co-leading with my friend Jed ( @mathbutler ), which turned into a friendly discussion with a great group of teachers  across  the curriculum and one administrator.  I got to share my thoughts on blogging and show a few of my students' b...

I remember thinking about how to teach certain concepts last year at EdCamp LA. Meeting twitter acquaintances like  John Stevens , Jed Butler , and Matt Vaudrey , I finally got the sense of the scale of the power of the Mtbos. They were able to fill in a few gaps with engaging lesson ideas.... and they are just 3 of MANY math teachers in my PLN (are we still using that acronym?). Before EdCamp, I didn't know what I didn't know. Now I know, or almost know, and it is both awesome and overwhelming at the same time. Make sense? Anywho, it is almost time for EdCamp again and the same question I had then is still milling around my brain. How do I make everything  interesting, fun or filled with problem based learning goodness? Can all topics from our traditional (read not common core) curriculum be made into engaging lessons? I hope so. But then chapter 8 rolls around every year. Yes it closes with exponential growth and decay, but it opens with this: So again, the que...