It’s the end of May, school is basically over. The week where it’s mostly catching up on missing assignments - many students already off on summer vacation and the frequent interruptions from things like graduation prep etc…
Student of mine that has struggled with math all year comes up to talk to me about internet ARGs, and I start talking about cryptography with him. I end up printing out a little packet for him working him through introductory stuff.
I wasn’t sure how well he’d take to it - was pretty bad about turning in assignments all year, not good at being focused - but lo and behold, he was working on it at lunch and I ended up helping him some more with it.
Oh that’s delightful.
I watched some videos on medieval math education recently, and I’ve been wanting to create a unit or something themed around what you’d learn as a medieval student.
I emphasize history a lot more than any math teacher I’ve known, but I think it can be effective. The Pythagorean theorem is absolutely critical to memorize and understand, and it can be very fun to go into all the Pythagoras cult stuff.
https://lemmy.world/post/43646761
Bonus points because I can’t find my former post…
I’ll see if I can find my cheatsheet and repost it later tonight, it’s probably in my wallet or sketchpad somewhere…
Found my decoded cheatsheet!
https://lemmy.world/post/47003140