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  1. Waterfall Trivia. Find the howto I wrote at http://kalamitykat.com/2009...
  2. Show me where it says constructivist-taught kids score better on traditional tests. It's not happening for me & I'm getting frustrated.
  3. Teaching the irrational number e to high school students? Reference http://bit.ly/w8OiD
  4. Love this via Boing Boing: http://bit.ly/4Gzhi5 TSA disallows snowglobes cause they can't determine how much liquid is in them.
  5. Just spotted Eudora on a professor's desktop. Welcome to the internets, circa 1996.
  6. My school's state director walked in to observe as I was teaching students to count in binary on their fingers. I was on #4. Think about it.
  7. Mail Merge still rocks. I now hold little slips bearing student name, ID, and 2 URLs.
  8. @ddmeyer Used your Graphing Stories http://bit.ly/PHs7 today for piecewise function lesson. Lots of debate from the entire class. Thank you!
  9. The fall of the Berlin Wall is probably the first international news event that resonated with me. Still wish I had a piece of it.
  10. Teachers: what % of your students would you estimate turn in homework? Is it graded, checked for completeness, something else?
  11. The mean number of births per mother is under 2 in Europe. My math kids got a social studies lesson yesterday. Stats: http://bit.ly/8QK6V
  12. http://twitpic.com/o4ycc - "Waterfall" trivia was a hit with my 2nd block class.
  13. Need a pile of stats to use in a math class? Check out http://www.bts.gov/ for airline departure delays and a heap of others.
  14. Mean & standard deviation on a Casio calculator. My kids are in heaven. http://bit.ly/22Gnh1
  15. http://twitpic.com/na5be - Good results from a Gallery Walk - a peer feedback mechanism
  16. If you covered the US w 1 mole of marshmallows, it'd be 16.5k miles thick, neglecting marshmallow compression.
  17. Want to use texting to remind your students of homework -- free? http://bit.ly/3w6kjC
  18. finally figured out how to manage homework reminders via SMS: use each wireless co's email gateway. Eg, number@mymetropcs.com. It's free!
  19. RT @Mrs_Fuller In the spirit of @ddmeyer check out http://bit.ly/1GyB6B . Are you being "too helpful"? Are you sure?
  20. Having fun with TweetStats http://tweetstats.com - I especially like the tweet density. Can you recommend another twitter stats site?