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No sitting, minimal bending, mostly bed rest for over three months. New blog post about how I coped debraborkovitz.com/2012/06/no-sit… 9:14 AM Jun 1st via web
@GlobalLeanings Thanks. I got hacked direct message from you, checked your feed, appreciate msg. Sorry, what a drag. 7:57 AM Apr 29th via web in reply to GlobalLeanings
earlsamuelson Here is something to take very seriously. launchings.blogspot.ca/2012/04/maanct… #abed #mathchat 1:47 PM Apr 8th via TweetDeck Retweeted by dborkovitz
New free interactive online practice ?'s w/hints, explanations for general curric math mtel (03) debraborkovitz.com/2011/11/mtel-p… 1:40 PM Mar 29th via web
Draft of CBMS Math Ed of Teachers 2 report -- public comment period until Apr 28 cbmsweb.org 11:00 AM Mar 9th via web
Real Life Fraction Problems -- esp to help students find mult and div in context debraborkovitz.com/2012/02/real-l… 8:21 AM Feb 29th via web
Blog post writing Pick a Number Game w/Fractions #geogebra applet. Not trivial to pick random fraction. debraborkovitz.com/2012/02/pick-a… #mathchat 7:14 AM Feb 27th via web
Pick a # game -- between 0 and 1 w/fractions! Most complicated Geogebra applet I've written. #mathchat #geogebra 1:33 PM Feb 23rd via web
Pick a # game -- between 0 and 1 w/fractions! Most complicated Geogebra applet I've written. #mathchat #geogebra geogebratube.org/student/m5079 6:16 AM Feb 23rd via web
@davidwees Wow, excellent example regarding scale -- big deal.. would be more interesting graph as % of body weight... #mathchat #edchat 1:04 PM Feb 15th via web in reply to davidwees
Practical Strategies that helped me teach with a chronic illness debraborkovitz.com/2012/02/a-few-… #crohns #ostomy #colitis #chronicillness 9:45 AM Feb 15th via web
Practical Strategies that Helped me Teach with a Chronic Illness debraborkovitz.com/2012/02/a-few-… #mathchat #edchat 9:44 AM Feb 15th via web
MyMathCloud To a mathematician, real life is a special case. 4:24 AM Feb 14th via web Retweeted by dborkovitz and 14 others
Cool tool for making random striped patterns, choose colors etc. For knitters, but math class uses too? biscuitsandjam.com/stripe_maker.p… #mathchat 9:57 AM Feb 13th via web
DianeRavitch When the best & brightest are wrong (think Vietnam & US education): withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com/2012/02/when-b… 6:54 AM Feb 12th via web Retweeted by dborkovitz and 16 others
The tangent is a tangent! Every wonder why it's called that? debraborkovitz.com/2012/02/the-ta… #mathchat #geogebra 7:58 AM Feb 10th via web
New post: The tangent is a tangent! How geom def of tan helps develop intuition for prop and ident #mathchat #geogebra debraborkovitz.com/2012/02/the-ta… 6:18 AM Feb 6th via web
@busynessgirl "A good addiction: video....." or when addiction is good, or sometimes addiction is.... etc. ???? 7:03 PM Feb 1st via web in reply to busynessgirl
Figured out how to embed GeoGebra applets! Here is a slider for comparing k^x and x^k plus a pretty graph. #mathchat debraborkovitz.com/2012/01/kx-xk-… 9:42 AM Jan 31st via web
In what other profession are the licensed professionals considered the LEAST knowledgeable about the job? m.examiner.com/k-12-in-topeka… 9:26 AM Jan 26th via web

Name Debra Borkovitz
Location Boston, MA
Web http://debraborko...
Bio Math Teacher on Sabbatical, New to Twitter, Recovering from Surgery, and working on a better bio blurb.