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I can't believe I spent the whole day in front of the TV! I had ordered some "math courses" on DVD from The Teaching Company. Just in case I might end up teaching some math this coming school year, I wanted to see how some of the "country's best" teachers present stuff. I watched ten half-hour lessons of Algebra 1 and five half-hour lessons of "The Joy of Thinking--Classic Mathematical Reasoning". The latter was about numbers and patterns, like the Fibonacci sequence, the Golden Ratio, and the Golden Rectangle and the Golden Triangle. I actually enjoyed them. I don't know if my students would, though. In any case, I got to see the teacher model using technology (graphing calculator) and slide effortlessly between lecture, using math manipulatives, the overhead, etc. It's different from what I used to do back in the 70's, which was just write everything on the board. It was nice for me to see how each time, even in the tenth lesson, the teacher repeated definitions when she used terms, just to help understanding.
Bob and I square danced and round danced tonight in Ohio. The caller called a tip (two songs) dressed as Elvis. He actually did a fairly decent impersonation. It was a lot of fun watching him wander in and out of the squares as he called and the dancers tried to dance around him. He'd periodically grab one of the women and hug her, while the other eight would try to continue the dance. (You have to pretend there's a ghost dancer to make that work, so it's a bit of a challenge for that square.) It was a fifth-Friday tri-club dance, so it was well attended. We had fun.
Joseph came home for the weekend. We'll see what we end up doing. So far, he's been out with some of the guys. He showed us some pictures and some videos he took from his recent long weekend in Las Vegas. We saw some cool shots of a beautiful water show put to music. The water is sprayed out of jets that are raised to the water's edge for the performance. The two we saw were done to "The Lord of the Dance" and "All that Jazz."
Bob and I square danced and round danced tonight in Ohio. The caller called a tip (two songs) dressed as Elvis. He actually did a fairly decent impersonation. It was a lot of fun watching him wander in and out of the squares as he called and the dancers tried to dance around him. He'd periodically grab one of the women and hug her, while the other eight would try to continue the dance. (You have to pretend there's a ghost dancer to make that work, so it's a bit of a challenge for that square.) It was a fifth-Friday tri-club dance, so it was well attended. We had fun.
Joseph came home for the weekend. We'll see what we end up doing. So far, he's been out with some of the guys. He showed us some pictures and some videos he took from his recent long weekend in Las Vegas. We saw some cool shots of a beautiful water show put to music. The water is sprayed out of jets that are raised to the water's edge for the performance. The two we saw were done to "The Lord of the Dance" and "All that Jazz."