Adam Cross

A husband, father, international mathematics teacher and physics teacher, science fiction reader, space nerd and traveler.

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If math or physics teachers had their own version of "Live, Laugh, Love" posters, what would they say?

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Students were tasked with taking a picture of something they could model with quadratic functions. Lots of good ones but the winning name this, the Purrabola.

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Half way through our Work, Power and Energy test we had a visitor. I don’t remember reading about this in the teacher handbook. Do you think giving them a few extra minutes at the end was the right call?

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Had some time over the holidays to complete my Lego ISS. Brought it in to school today and it looks great next to the Apollo.

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I really like the look of these particle model gifs, especially the one for gases. #iteachphysics https://t.co/NFwrO72yKU

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@Alan_Goodison We used the American based SystemsGo program to get our students ready. https://t.co/xdQ0MA4ruX

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From paper rockets to a successful liftoff in only a few short months. I'm very proud of the students and what they accomplished in the Rocket Club this year.

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Year end exams are approaching and it can be overwhelming for some students. I try to help them prepare by breaking up our study sessions and doing practice mini exams on 2-3 topics. This is the schedule we're using to prepare for our AI SL exam on June 9th.

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If a picture says 1000 words, then how many words does a gif say? This one sure says a lot. #iteachmath

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Last week our @acsabudhabi Rocketry Club launched a rocket in Texas as the culminating experience in the SystemsGo STEM curriculum. We are the first school outside of the United States to participate in this event! Shout out to @thephysicsboss and all of our students!

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ACS Rocket Club

How it started: How its going:

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I gave my students the quiz below to see who was the "best guesser". Two of the students somehow managed to get 4/5 correct! A pretty simple exercise that lead to rich discussion and further calculations using the binomial distribution and expected values.

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@ThePrimalDino We’re reading these books to my six year old son and he loves them. Dinosaurs left Earth before the meteor hit and have colonized the galaxy.

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Rounding your final answer to the correct number significant figures and including the correct unit:
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I know I tweet about this almost every year, but I really like these Venn diagram activities from @mrbartonmaths. Last month we studied arithmetic sequences and this was a great review activity while applying the principles of Venn diagrams.

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@AJamesMcCarthy Caught this photo in Abu Dhabi last night.

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This is a pretty interesting Voronoi diagram showing the cells closest to each NBA team. Do the people of BC support the Trail Blazers?

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@SamGower5 Please Make A Taco (PMAT) for the phases of mitosis and Go Catch A Turtle (GCAT) for the DNA base pairs.

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Nothing like a good old fashioned Linear, Quadratic, Exponential card sort to start your Friday morning right.