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7 Weeks In

So the last week we've had two nights of conferences. They went really well this year! I felt like I did such a better job of letting parents know throughout the semester about concerns or options for additional help for students that needed it before conferences instead of discussing what we could start doing to get some kids help at conferences.

We are right in the middle of a unit on proofs. The way we teach them really bother me. I'm not talking about how my collegues and I have chosen to deliver instruction, scaffold, and build up to harder and harder proofs. I'm talking about the idea of messy confusing incredibly inelegant 2-column proofs... Proofs should be simple and elegant. If we could teach them with that idea always in mind and let kids explain however they want (this would be a perfect place to allow more writing in math) they would seem so much more meaningful in my opinion.

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