Dice Collection (#12)

A 20-sided die inside a clear 20-sided die (icosahedron). Pretty cool.
(From CMC 2012.)

New Tee

Two of my private tutees are top ranked junior national level badminton players.  They just returned from a tournament in the East Coast with this gift for me.  Thanks Krista & Jamie!

Dice Collection (#11)

Chinese character dice! Way to represent. I have only two left. I gave one to each of my four private tutees: Krista, Jamie, Curtis, and Tim.
(From CMC 2012.)

CMC 2012

It was another fulfilling learning experience at this year's CMC math conference in Palm Springs.  On Friday morning, I attended two AP Stats sessions by Starnes.  While the first session involved much pure math at a high level, the second session provide me with more inference activities that I may use for my stats class.  I picked up many freebies at the lunch meeting for AP Stats teachers.  After lunch, I attended an engaging TI-Nspire session by Reardon.  The last session was by Cheng, who provided many ideas on re-booting our instructions to meet the new testing challenges.  As usual, my brian was fried by the evening.  To clear my mind, I ran 5 miles up and down the Palm Springs downtown.

On Sunday morning, I attended an Algebra session on using myths and fables to engage students.  Presenters Wolf and Maggiore provided scenarios more student participation.  The second session was an TI-Nspire activity by Godbold for AP Statistics.  Lastly, I attending Lim's math in TV and movies session.  It was a more relaxing way to end my attendance at this year's CMC conference.  As always, I strive to bring back what I can to benefit my students.

PS - 100% of the cost of this trip came out of my own expense.  I took a personal day off to attend Friday's sessions.

Hair Care

AP Stats student Adrian M. gave me this before my trip to the Palm Springs math conference. Thanks for the shampoo...I guess. =)