Rachel Cooper

AP Statistics, On Level Statistics, Geometry, and ACT Prep teacher collecting ideas to build critical thinking skills and a love of math

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@k8roulette2 Had a senior on the last day of the year pull a waffle iron and tupperware full of batter out of his backpack. The waffles smelled delicious! On another day, a boy pulled a bag of hearts of romaine out of his bag and just ate them whole like Bugs Bunny eating a carrot.

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@khuangedu @abel_jennifer What is something you could teach me about? I think they give more insightful answers than when I ask them about their hobbies/things they like to do.

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@fawnpnguyen 3 year old: "Five is the biggest number"

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@fawnpnguyen 6-year-old: "One hundred? I mean one-hundred-two!" But he just keeps thinking of bigger numbers. He is up to 122.

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@coachpate @AnkerMath Same, and then constantly remind them about the card activity. "How likely are we to get a sample of cards SO unusual, if it is a FAIR deck?"

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@jessien20 @abel_jennifer We have been doing this since September. One group of kids is just a day behind the other, so I do the things that need to be in person when they are in the building and then they have something to do at home the next day while I teach the same lesson to the second group.

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@approx_normal We talked about dilations in perspective drawing. This PPT starts with a picture drawn before the technique of perspective drawing was developed. Then we talk about perspective drawing with a vanishing point (which is the center of the dilation) https://t.co/oyyQrHahwx

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

Help #mtbos #statschat #iteachmath! I put this "compare the distributions" question on a quiz, and after reading their responses, I am torn on what to accept as correct. Could the bottom be bimodal? I would say it is skewed left, but could it also be roughly symmetric?

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@JennSWhite If you have a projector, you can make it a second monitor. It isn't the same, but it might work for some things.

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@NWSKansasCity Since your predictions are based on data and probabilities, would you have anything you could share with an AP Statistics class?

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@TRemotely @iteachmathAll Sure. I would love to see that.

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

Any stats teachers have a good survey they use to collect data from students that can then be used in examples throughout the year? #mtbos #iteachmath #statschat

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@JennSWhite Maybe she can answer this for me. My 2 year old woke up an hour after bedtime last night to ask me why dragons have tails. I was unable to answer satisfactorily.

[Evan Handler @EvanHandler]

I now have nothing further to say to anyone for the rest of my life.

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[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@kellyamims He was a fun kid! I just said "You make a good point" and left him to whatever it was that he did at his desk while the rest of us said the pledge.

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@druinok @abel_jennifer Exploragons?

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@ddmeyer When they finish with the polynomials, I can share some two-column congruent triangle proofs with them.

[Rachel Cooper @RCooperMath]

@MrsDill2 @iteachmathAll Actually, I looked closer and there is a check box to use if you don't have a Shift key, so it would work on a tablet or phone too!