Recently, I've been specializing in teaching Precalculus and first semester Calculus... Some of these, however, can be applied to any topic and at any level.

I warn you though... I'm goofy and unconventional. After reading some of these, you might ask three questions:

1) Does she still command the proper respect with all this goofiness?
2) Does she maintain control of her students?
3) Does she have time to cover the material?

The answer to all three is YES! I stand at 5'1" and look like one of the students... I've NEVER had a problem. I think the fact that I give a 45 minute dissertation the first day of school on the perils of cheating that would make a police officer break down and cry might have something to do with it.  8-) As for "covering all the material"... these things seem to get students to learn the material faster.

All of this stuff IS copyrighted... You are free to use any of it in the classroom though. If you tell a colleague about it, please tell him/her about Coolmath too!

	How to Start the Year with SUCCESS:  Attitude is EVERYTHING! (This is the final key to getting all this to work -- and making your job much more pleasant!)
	My First-Day Speech
	My List of Motivational Quotes
	How to Keep Your Students' Trust (Think about this one...  Can you learn well from someone you don't trust?)
	Pierre the Mountain Climbing Ant
	Really Goofy Extrema Word Problems (Yes, this is where I maximize the psychological well-being of a grasshopper.)
	Music Before Class
	Monkey Math - Specifically, monkey proofs and monkey algebra
	Nike Math - Specifically, Nike integrals and Nike factoring
	Take an Electric Guitar to Class (Yes, you can teach them something with it!)
	Graphing Rational Functions - Throw away that laborious A-H technique in the text book! I can do it with 2 things and 2 sentences! (I'm sending you over to my Coolmath Algebra area for this one.)