My daughter wants to be a Math Teacher. She will be graduation with a math degree from SUNY Binghamton. She has applied and been accepted to both Binghamton Graduate School of Education and Columbia Teacher's College. Any thoughts? Binghamton is 2/3 the cost for tuition and it is not clear that she has housing at Columbia nor how much it would be.
On 11/07/13, Rich/CA/Math wrote: > On 11/07/13, Bopper wrote: >> My daughter wants to be a Math Teacher. She will be >> graduation with a math degree from SUNY Binghamton. She has >> applied and been accepted to both Binghamton Graduate >> School of Education and Columbia Teacher's College. Any >> thoughts? Binghamton is 2/3 the cost for tuition and it is >> not clear that she has housing at Columbia nor how much it >> would be. > > To be honest, with the state of education right now, and in > particular math education in the face of the common core > standards and the continuing trend towards micro-management I > couldn't recommend becoming a math teacher to any person with > a math degree. She will not be allowed to be the kind of > math teacher that she remembers having when she was in > school. > > Having said that, if she is really intent on doing it, I'd say > spend as little a possible, as there is a distinct > possibility that within 5 years she will see the light and > bail, and an education degree isn't really something that > adds value in the outside market place. Definitely do not go > into a lot of student debt for this. > > And as someone who got their math degree from SUNY Binghamton > (in the 70s) I have to say that spending a year or two in > Binghamton seems a lot more attractive than spending that time > in NYC. And I'd guess that the living costs would be a lot > lower as well. > > (PS, nice to see that some still adhere to the old name, not > the new Binghamton University stuff - like they are ashamed of > being a state school
my suggestion- get a job teaching first and than take courses. If she goes on for a Masters before getting experience she will be placing herself right out of the marketplace. I have a Masters plus 65 credits from Teacher's College and I am unemployable except as a sub.
if I were you - and this is not a commercial - I would go to someplace such as Edhelper and pull out a lot of worksheets for the kids. You might use them as extra credit to get the kids up to speed.
I was given a test covering mostly word problems far easier than precalculus or algebra 1 and 2. I failed the test miserably. It was a rude awakening and total embarrassment for me having two degrees from two CUNY colleges and I could not pass a rather simple word problem test of 20 questions. I walked away from the bank very depressed.
As stated above, I wanted to change careers but realized that a decent job is not going to say solve 3x + 3 = 9 for x. They will expect applicants to reason out word problems and develop the needed equation leading to the right answer. Mastering this skill is more special than gold; it is a skill most people envy. What do you say?
I am looking for a program that will allow me to create my own problems and then generate multiple worksheets. I teach a Business class and I have too many kids copy each other. I would love to be able to create multiple versions of a worksheet with out having to manually do it. Anyone know of any programs like this? Thanks
Math-Aids.Com is a free resource for teachers, parents, and students. The math worksheets are randomly and dynamically generated by our math worksheet generators. This allows you to make an unlimited number of printable math worksheets to your specifications instantly with the answer key included
On 11/15/13, Mike Theodore wrote: > On 11/15/13, George wrote: >> I am looking for a program that will allow me to create my >> own problems and then generate multiple worksheets. I >> teach a Business class and I have too many kids copy each >> other. I would love to be able to create multiple versions >> of a worksheet with out having to manually do it. Anyone >> know of any programs like this? >> Thanks > > Yes, Math-Aids.Com. > > Math-Aids.Com is a free resource for teachers, parents, and > students. The math worksheets are randomly and dynamically > generated by our math worksheet generators. This allows you to > make an unlimited number of printable math worksheets to your > specifications instantly with the answer key included
My colleagues and I (high school Algebra teachers) are wondering how different states are implementing Common Core Algebra 1. Specifically, we were wondering how the questions on the final exam review look like (or any other county/state assessments). Can anyone give examples? Thank you.
On 11/25/13, Kaylee B. wrote: > I am writing an argument essay on if math is worth the time > and effort in learning. > ~Does it benifit you in the long run for any future job > that you want? > ~Why are we taught things that are not going to be useful? > ~What are we likely to use in math? > ~Why do we have to learn Algebra 2 when we can have the > opertunities to learn by taking a Buisness Class(where a > student may learn about how to correctly do taxes or a good > bank account), or even a Real World Problems Class(Where > students would do real world problems).
On the first question, do the research. It is not that hard to find that the best paying jobs almost all require at least some higher math.
On the second, in HS you have no idea what your future path is going to be. If you do not go through Algebra 2 you close the door on many many potential careers.
On the third, if nothing else you will use the thinking and problem solving skills that you will learn in math. Something that your questions and the shallow thinking they reveal you are in need of.
On the fourth, the question is just being silly and lazy. And frankly most of the "real world problems" that are taught at the HS level aren't really real world. And in the real world, the skills you will learn in Algebra 2, pre-calc, and calculus will go a long way to allowing you to get a real world job and make real world money and have a real world life
On 11/07/13, Rich/CA/Math wrote: > On 11/07/13, Bopper wrote: >> My daughter wants to be a Math Teacher. She will be >> graduation with a math degree from SUNY Binghamton. She has >> applied and been accepted to both Binghamton G...See More