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Peterik Chapter 12: Writing for Stage, Screen, and Television

OK, my schedule at my new school has finally been revealed: I'll be teaching Integrated Math I and III this year. With this schedule, I can no longer justify running a blog with "Stats" in its name. On the other hand, my old blog has "Geometry" in its name -- and Geometry is part of Integrated Math I. http://commoncoregeometry.blogspot.com/ This doesn't mean that I'm definitely abandoning this blog. Perhaps in some future year, I'll be called upon to teach Stats, and then I can resurrect this blog once again. I'll see you over at the old blog!
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Peterik Chapter 11 From Country to Rock and Everything in Between: The Genres

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2.  Rapoport Question of the Day 3. More on Classroom Management 4.  Peterik Chapter 11 From Country to Rock and Everything in Between: The Genres 5. The Genres in My Math Class 6.  Conclusion Introduction Yes, I'm back at it again already. Even though Chapter 10 was just a few days ago, I wish to hurry up and get through the next chapter, since summer break is almost over. Chapter 11 shows us how to compose songs in different genres. Rapoport Question of the Day On her Daily Epsilon of Math , Rebecca Rapoport writes: Today is the x th Sunday in 2022. To solve this problem, we only need to count all the Sundays that have elapsed so far this year: January: 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th (Weeks 1-5) February: 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th (Weeks 6-9) March: 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th (Weeks 10-13) April: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th (Weeks 14-17) May: 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th (Weeks 18-22) June: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th (Weeks 23-26) July: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31...
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Peterik Chapter 10: Using Chords in Songwriting

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. More on Interactive Notebooks 3.  Rapoport Question of the Day 4.  Peterik Chapter 10: Using Chords in Songwriting 5. Chords in Mocha EDL Scales 6.  Conclusion Introduction We're now ready to move on to the next Peterik chapter on chords. Then we'll try to figure out how to add chords to our EDL songs. More on Interactive Notebooks It's been a long time since I've discussed the traditionalist debates. One website were traditionalists tend to post (and I used to link to all the time from the old blog) is the Joanne Jacobs site. The reason I'm returning to Jacobs today is that one commenter appears to attack interactive notebooks in math classes. All summer, I've written about interactive notebooks -- how I should have used them in past classes, and how I plan on using them in future classes. Here's the link and the comment: https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/grading-reforms-teach-kids-they-can-do-nothing-get-something Guest...
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Peterik Chapter 9: Making Use of Melody in Songwriting

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2.  Rapoport Question of the Day 3. The Factorial Problem in Dozenal Base 4.  Peterik Chapter 9: Making Use of Melody in Songwriting 5. Returning to the Mocha EDL Scales 6. Which EDL Scales Will I Play? 7. EDL's and Kite Colors 8. Melodies and Ranges 9. A More Melodic TI Program 10. Conclusion Introduction Today we reach Chapter 9 of Peterik's book -- the melody chapter. Therefore this will be a great time to relearn what EDL scales are and how they are used in Mocha. I'll fix the melody part of our TI music generator in order to take advantage of what we learn about melody from Peterik. Finally, even though I don't know yet what classes I'll teach -- and hence what songs I'll want to perform -- for fall, I already have an idea of which EDL's I'll be using to compose those songs. Rapoport Question of the Day Today on her Daily Epsilon of Math , Rebecca Rapoport writes: How many 0s are at the end of the decimal representa...
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