Small victories

Wow, one of the boys who dropped out this year (would never come to school and was repeating most of his classes) just called asking for help solving quadratic equations.

I pointed him to hotmath.com as that website does a better job than most of stepping you through problems. (If you ever visited education.yahoo.com then math, this was the website you were actually seeing).

But the best part was the comment: You know Ricochet, everything I am having trouble with was all that stuff you told was important and you tried to teach it to us.

Hopefully the Internet will provide him with the interaction and instant answers that will help him learn.

Learning Styles

If you are looking for a learning styles test to give your students (and don't want one of the many, fantastic interactive ones) try http://www.businessballs.com/freepdfmaterials/free_multiple_intelligences_test_young_people.pdf

I find that most of my students are kinesthetic learnersm which surprised me.