Mr. Higgins’ Blog

Note: Don’t forget I am a Tablet PC teacher and use SMART Notebook just like anyone else; however, I get to walk around the room.
As a teacher, I have the responsibility to show my students the the Applications and Models of Trigonometry to my Pre-Calculus students; however, I could simply use the whiteboard and some [...]

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While the national trend seems to be leaning toward “shoveling” four year of  mathematics into high school everywhere, Ohio is just beginning the process through the new Ohio CORE curriculum which starts with the class of 2014.
Why use the word “shoveling”?  Because I have a feeling that it will be used to create new senior [...]

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Video Student Focus #1 for Honors Algebra II and Pre-Calculus

"If you build it, he will come" – Field of Dreams
Darren Kuropatwa may have beat me to the punch; however, he ended up providing me with a great template for a great assignment in which the students create video content in the mathematics classroom.  My [...]

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Here is a YouTube video of my experience today with my Zune 30 GB media player that I have learned to love…just not on a Y2K like day.

Aren’t those beautiful hands?  Anyway…
According to many different reports out there, the Zune 30 GB version has a hardware configuration problem which made EVERY SINGLE ZUNE 30 TO [...]

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