- Unit I Test - tough test with lots of stuff to memorize (compound interest formulas, exponential and logarithmic graphs). Students took this on Thursday. About 60% got As and Bs; 25% got F's. I'm having mandatory tutoring and retake for those 25 students this week. The hard part about this unit was there was only 3 main concepts and if you messed up on one part early on, the rest of the problem was screwed up. I'm hoping a little revisiting will help these students do great on the reassessment.
- It was neat to talk to students about saving, investing, bank accounts, etc. Every year I'm surprised by how little they know and am glad to be able to play a small part in educating them.
- I'm really happy with the way my students are able to articulate themselves on their student videos on their blogs. Students who are quieter in class and who I would never have the chance to sit down and hear a full explanation of a concept, I can go to their blog and listen to them explain through it. It's really awesome. I highly suggest it!
This week we start matrices, which students either love or hate. They are very tough at first, I admit it. But, we are spending 5 days on them so hopefully by the end students will feel confident.
I have some (what I think are) pretty cool WSQ chat activities planned for Unit J. I'll post them up and talk about them in the next 2 weeks as we do them in class.
7:49. 5 minutes tired-er. Good night everyone! Thanks for reading and being a part of my PLN!
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