The Insanity
You can tell there’s something wrong with our system of keeping GPAs based on class average — i.e. out of 100 instead of out of the 4-point scale &#...
Tag: school
Textbooks suck
Today I was looking through my introductory calculus textbook* for no particular reason. Well, I say introductory, but I think that’s a particularly bad c...
Bored Students: Unite
I’ve often blogged (click the words to see my previous posts) about education in the past. As I am a high school student, it’s a topic that’s ...
I’m No Good At Taking Tests!
I hear people say they aren’t good at taking tests all the time. “I understand the material, but when I take the test, I fail!” I can understa...
The PowerPoint Method
PowerPoint seems to be a popular teaching aid. After all, it saves lots of messy writing on the board or the use of boring overhead projectors. And who doesn...
Understanding
I spend quite a bit of my time helping high school students understand physics and mathematics concepts, so I’ve also spent some time wondering how I can ...