We’ve had our iPods up and running for a few months now and it’s about time we shared some of our experiences with them. A little while back, I wrote about our initial plans for using them around literacy, which focused on comprehension strategies that are often reserved for teaching students to be better readers. [...]

March 1, 2010 is World Math Day! This is a global event that has been held every year since 2007 to unite students, classrooms, and teachers with other individuals around the world through the joy of math and numbers. Even though it is technically scheduled for March 1st, the activities are open to participants for [...]

Most of the Ripplers have been able to showcase their new angle knowledge on their blogs this week. Whether they like it or not, they’re seeing angles everywhere now! To show what they have learned so far, with Ms. Rogerson, each student wrote about their individual understanding of angles and created an animoto video based [...]

WARNING: If you don’t see angles everywhere yet…this post will really open your minds to a world of angles you have never seen before! Ms. Rogerson here to give you one last update on our angle adventures.  As you may have heard the Ripplers have been working very hard to identify and measure angles not only [...]

Alright everyone I, Ms. Rogerson, am back at it again!  Have you ever been so wrapped up in a new concept that it follows you around?  Well, I must admit that after teaching geometry for the past week I see angles everywhere.  Not only do I see them in my everyday environment, but I have [...]

One of Ms. Rogerson’s first lessons with us was a math review integrated into a PE activity. Yes, you heard right, math and PE combined! It was a great activity filled with Bouncy Ball Madness because you see, that was the problem: an evil gnome (who has since learned the error of his ways) had [...]