Category Archives: Independent Practice

This is material either specifically designed for or appropriate to use for what is more commonly known as “homework.”

Pierre de Fermat

OK, if you have some more advanced math students on your hands, this reading on Pierre de Fermat–with an excursus on his Last Theorem–might be of some use to you. This vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet accompanies the reading.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

A Short Worksheet on the Commutative Law of Addition

Let me continue to offer some of the materials I’m working up to teach math with this worksheet on the Commutative Law of Addition along with its answer key

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Libido

I’m not sure where this reading on the Freudian concept of libido and its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet fit into the curriculum. Health education seems the logical choice, but if you’re an English teacher trying to teach students to speak in a more sophisticated manner of, uh, intimate affairs, this might be the material for that.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

A Short Worksheet on the Associative Law of Addition

On this cool and damp morning in Vermont, here is a short worksheet on the Associative Law of Addition and its answer key if you can use them.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Four Very Basic Addition Worksheets

I’ve been assigned a math class this year. I’m not exactly well-suited to teach math; I struggled with it as a student, and really never made it past pre-algebra in high school. Nonetheless, I’m charged with teaching the subject. My students certainly deserve a better math teacher than I am–something I mention to them a couple of times a week.

In any case, here are four addition worksheets and their answer keys that I wrote for this class. There are a number of things I’m trying to assess with this preliminary work in the subject, one of the most important of which is any given student’s fund of working memory, a cognitive ability simply essential for math. You will see some problems repeat in different orders in an attempt to see if student recognize that they’ve seen the problem before. Also, using the same problem in different order gives students a chance to rehearse the commutative law of addition and teachers a chance to assess students’ understanding of this key concept in basic operations of mathematics.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Cultural Literacy: E Pluribus Unum

Finally on this Monday morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Latin phrase e pluribus unum, the motto of the United States, appearing on the nation’s great seal. Unfortunately, this elegant phrase was never codified as the nation’s motto, so in 1956, in a counter-enlightenment move, “In God We Trust” was passed into law at the official motto of the United States.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Red Blood Cells

Alright, moving right along on this relatively balmy Monday morning in southwestern Vermont, here is a reading on red blood cells and the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies it.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Word Root Exercise: Hem/o, Hemat/o, Hema, -Emia, -Aemia

Health teachers, nursing students, and others pursuing careers in the medical professions might find this worksheet on the Greek roots hemo, hemato, hema, emia, and aemia useful; they mean blood and blood condition.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Everyday Edit: Columbus Sets Sail

OK, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet, “Columbus Sets Sail,” which serves, I think, as a pretty good introduction to how Hispanic History begins.

Incidentally, if you, or more importantly, your students, like this kind of exercise, the good people at Education World give away a year-long supply of them at no charge. Just click on the hyperlink in the previous sentence to get to them.

If you find typos in this document…well, that’s the point of it. Ask your students to correct them.

The Weekly Text, September 20, 2019, Hispanic Heritage Month 2019 Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on the Bay of Pigs Affair

Last Monday, September 15, marked the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month 2019. Last year at this time I knew I was running out of materials to properly observe the Month Over the summer I struggled to assemble materials to publish. Unfortunately, finding a new job, moving, and the typical vagaries of life intervened; the section of the warehouse at Mark’s Text Terminal where the appropriate materials are stored is nearly bereft of goods. So I begin the month belatedly and with a regrettable deficit, which embarrasses me.

In any case, to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month for 2109, here is a reading on the Bay of Pigs invasion and the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that attends it. These cover both Hispanic history and United States history. These documents have served, along with others, in my classroom, to start students thinking critically about the wages of imperialism.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.