Hey Math

Well everyone, by now you've probably heard from your student about our new math schedule. The way it's worked out, I see the students for Math on Monday and Wednesday, while Ms. Gavan sees them on Tuesday and Thursday. This obviously changes on short Wednesday weeks when Ms. Gavan sees them on Friday and I see them on Thursday, but you get the idea. So in my class, I thought it would be great to use Hey Math, an online math support site from India and the Philippines but (in a move so unbelievably predictable, I'm ashamed to admint I didn't see it coming) not all the students like learning from a computer. So midweek I switched up the program. The new program offers Hey Math to whatever students would like to use it, and allows the other students to sit at the front of the room to learn by traditional lecture as before. This seems to allow each student to learn in the method most conducive to their own cognitive abilities, which was the goal of changing the math program in the first place. In case you were interested, in Ms. Gavan's class they are doing a project (for most it is a bound book) related to the math we cover in my class. This addition seems to be have been met with quite a bit of favor by our students, so I think the change of program has had a definite positive impact in that respect. We'll be checking in with the students at the end of each week to see how their impression of the program changes, and if the overall reaction remains positive before we break, I think we'll invest in a few Hey Math memberships. -Mr. H