My tablet is on its way home! Yay!

I thought it might be fun to try and get the Jeopardy! theme song on my Algebra 2 and Precalc blogs since we're playing it the next couple of days in class. So off I went to search for a way to do it.

First, I found a version of the song online that I could download (as an .mp3).

Then I came across a website called DivShare where you can upload and store media and then you're given an embed code to use on your blog. It worked perfectly and was so easy to do!

Here's a link to my Algebra 2 blog where you can see how it turned out!

Still no tablet. :( (not mine, anyway)

A couple of cool things already have happened today.
1. I checked out the "eSolutions" disk from our new Algebra 2 book. You can actually customize the solutions that are shown! Like if I assign #1 - 4, 6 - 10 on a certain page, I can plug in those numbers and just show them. Love it!

2. I just threw together a Jeopardy review for my Algebra 2 kids for tomorrow. Their Chapter 1 test is on Wednesday. What I liked about it is that because I already had the powerpoint format, all I had to do was plug in some questions/answers. Did it in about 30 minutes. Love it again!

I came upstairs to go to bed almost an hour ago and got sucked into Twitter. Dan Meyer posted an interesting question about grocery store lines - Which line would you choose? A line with one cart (of 19 items) or a line with four carts (of 1, 2, 3, or 5 items)? It was cool to see the responses coming in!

Just ran across this joke on twitter user treed's blog. Would be a funny one to show when we talk about interest!

A Worksheet Generator. Hopefully worth a look!


I seriously can't wait to get my tablet back. Seriously. From what I hear, it's been sent back to the manufacturer to get some parts replaced. It took almost a week for the tech guy here to get the box to ship it in. I'm hoping to have it back by Christmas! (Said with only a little bit of sarcasm!)

Something new to remember:

This is a website with interactive measuring of lines/angles. Would be a good thing to show my Integrated Geometry classes when we get to our geometry chapter (yes, that's singular... we just switched names but not curriculum yet - the parents were all confused about it at Open House last night!).

An Algebra 2 project where we make a catapault? Could be fun. Could be dangerous. :) Definitely a blog that I need to add to my reader!

My tablet's been sent away to have some repair work done, so I'm borrowing a fellow math teacher's for the time being (he got a new tablet this year because he's an e-coach). It's killing me! Sure, I have the tablet (which is nice) but I'm missing a lot of the things that I have on my desktop.... and didn't think to save to my network storage before I gave my computer away. :(

One big thing that I'm missing is my inability to use Diigo to save links - I actually e-mailed myself one earlier today! I was just about to do that again when I thought about putting them on here so I can come back to them later.

1. This is a link to an article about Michelle Duggar, who is pregnant with her 19th child. (Can you imagine?! I can't - my two drive me crazy!) The projections near the bottom are funny. It would be something to show my algebra 2 classes when we get to exponential functions.

2. I've been thinking that it might be fun to try out a slide rule with my precalc kids when we do logs. Here's a link to a tutorial (hopefully it'll be a good for a first timer, too!).

3. I discovered last year that my Integrated kids really enjoyed looking at optical illusions. Seriously, they got really excited when I found some new ones. Here's a cool one that Sol at Wild About Math found.

I think that's it for now. I'm sure I'll be adding to this as I'm tablet-less!