Do Nows
It could be difficult to get students ready for a difficult lesson or to any kind of lesson at 8. They need some kind of warm-up to get their brains/moods tuned right before you start your lesson. T...
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An Innovation Venture!
Innovation Month! Come February and the mental swing toward radical or incremental changes is very much palpable around our campus. This, after all, is Innovation Month! Along my principle of “l...
Intelligent Guess in Mu...
There is no doubt that mastering the subject matter is always the key to succeeding in any test, whether it is a placement test, a language–proficiency test, college assessment, an aptitud...
Number Cruncher
Marking listening exams can be demoralizing. Our students often perform poorly on gapfill activities where they are required to add a number such as a price, a date or a percentage. Teachers lamen...
XO – Tic Tac Toe ...
Tic Tac Toe is a favorite childhood game, popular way before electronic entertainment ever existed. This game has withstood the test of time. All students that I have taught played it as kids. How can...
Current trends in mathe...
In this short article I am describing a small activity that I carried out in one of my Math-020 classes. The design of this activity is aligned with a theory of mathematics teaching. The first section...