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Deborah Pransky Levine
Joined: 10/20/09 Posts: 7 View Profile |
Mrs. Mellus' math curriculum Posted Thursday, December 24, 2009 02:58 PM Hi fellow alumni of Mrs. Mellus - I thought of our infamous math teacher the other day. As a special needs teacher, I spend a lot of time working inclusively in a Grade 3 classroom. The other day, they were doing a holiday math activity that required them to plot points on a graph. The connected points formed a Christmas Tree. I am mentioning this for two reasons. It brought back memories of the many papers that many of us did in our 8th grade math class. I remember making a Thanksgiving turkey among other things. Also, the activity is just one example of how education has changed since we were in school. I am always noting specific curriculum items that my second and third graders are asked to do that I remember doing years later. Happy Holidays! Debbie Levine (Debbie Pransky) |
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Phyllis Speen Reilly
Joined: 10/22/09 Posts: 4 View Profile |
RE: Mrs. Mellus' math curriculum Posted Friday, January 1, 2010 01:59 PM Boy do I remember her. They fondly called her piano legs! I always remember making those spirals or whatever the technical geometry term . Remembering too that you wanted it to look awesome and like stain glass. Then it would make you famous & get posted on the wall. She would brag to the next class what an awesome job that student did the pervious year. I recall my dear friend Wendy Elizabeth Mason always making fun of her and how many kids were afraid of her too. |
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Lisa Wingersky Gilman
Joined: 11/02/09 Posts: 1 View Profile |
RE: Mrs. Mellus' math curriculum Posted Thursday, January 14, 2010 06:45 PM Can you imagine what we would do if any of our kids had a teacher like Mrs. Mellus? |
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Karl Freedman
Joined: 03/14/10 Posts: 2 View Profile |
RE: Mrs. Mellus' math curriculum Posted Sunday, March 14, 2010 02:58 PM I'll bet every one of us can still correctly recite the Pythagorian Theorem. |
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Phyllis Speen Reilly
Joined: 10/22/09 Posts: 4 View Profile |
RE: Mrs. Mellus' math curriculum Posted Sunday, March 14, 2010 03:35 PM I can remember the subject not the details! I may have cheated off of Wendy Mason's paper ! LOL Only kidding. Mellus was too scarey to cheat in her class. |
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