Category Archives: General

Welcome to our class blog!

This is where you’ll visit once in a while to get certain information, for example, details about a certain activity or assignment. To start out our year, here’s the video-gone-viral introducing the Learn teaching staff!

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Your last Geogebra/Desmos assignment! :-(

In the past, I’ve had my students do a memory aid for all of the conics, uploaded to their blogs. This year, you will be making a memory aid, but using geogebra. Since that’s probably more work, I’ve decided that … Continue reading

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Identities Assignment

You will be submitting 5 identity proofs. You have SOME choice about which ones though! Your 5 must come from the examples indicated in the grid below, all of which come from Visions 2 and Carousel 2. Your mark depends … Continue reading

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VFW Revisited: What I’ll Be Looking For

In epearl: (10 marks) Task description (of blog post only) List of criteria (for blog post only) At least two drafts for your blog post. (I’m not talking about drafts of the complete blog post. I mean two things that … Continue reading

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Epearl/blog post assignment: The Virtual Ferris Wheel Revisited

Due date: Friday, March 28. More details to come about what I’ll be looking for, possible bonus points, how it will be assessed etc, but I thought you might like to start thinking about this in the meantime: The blog … Continue reading

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Desmos and The Big Seventeen

Today’s padlet wall is brought to you by St. Patrick’s Day! Created with Padlet Now that you’ve played with Desmos a bit, we’ll use it to investigate TBS more closely. Here’s what you’ll be doing: Go to the desmos siteĀ , … Continue reading

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First day back after march break!

First of all, hey there! I hope I have as many students now as I had on Feb 28! I look forward to hearing about your adventures. I started my March break by blogging about logs. NO NERD JOKES! So … Continue reading

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Feb 26: The Impossible Ferris Wheel

After we discuss yesterday’s graphs, you’re going to do pretty much the same thing, except this time, on an impossible Ferris wheel. You’ll see why it’s impossible when you open the geogebra. Once again, you can print up these notes … Continue reading

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Feb 25 Ferris Wheel Activity

Big day today! Everything you’ll need is here, files, instructions, etc, but I have also put copies of everything in sakai as well, just in case things go awry from here. First, download and print a copy of this, just … Continue reading

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Teacher Appreciation Week – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

What a lovely sight – a word cloud generated by the Learn Students! Thank you all so much! I’ll let my Valentine’s day friend say it for me:    

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