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**My name is  Danielle Oslager  and I fell in love with math at a young age. It has been a constant battle (we fight a lot), but overall the relationship has been pretty good. Which is why I have decided to pursue a career in math. I am a senior at Clemson University  majoring in  Secondary Education - Mathematics  and I plan to graduate in May of 2010. As I look back on my high school education, I can remember my experiences with some of my teachers, and one teacher in particular had a big impact on my decision to become a math teacher. Her passion  and enthusiasm  for math were contagious, and I hope that one day my students will look back and say the same thing about me. And I'm awesome! But not as awesome as EP Keller  (you can see his information by going to his page). ** ======

media type="custom" key="4310821"** I chose this video because it provides an in depth explanation of the commonly used phrase "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" which is used in many classrooms to help learn and remember the order of operations for math.
 * "Who's Aunt Sally? - Order of Operations

The lesson is called "2004 Indian Ociean Tsunami Activity" and it is a measurement lesson. This lesson seems to be appropriate for high school students, with a concentration on measuring distances, and even calculating speeds. The instructional approach seems to be having students calculate the speeds it took waves to cross the ocean, and then using the data, determine an equation, and use their formula to make predictions. The lesson seems to be strong in that it encourages the students to use informatino they have gathered (or been given) and formulate their own patterns and even equations to model it. However, if students haven't ever been introduce to formulating equations or formulas, they will strong. This could be a weakness. All students would have to be proficient in formulating equations to complete this activity. I might would preface this activity with a lesson about exploring and creating equations. Google Sketchup** Below is a problem I came up with for students to explore the Pythagorean Theorem using Google Sketchup as an illustration tool.
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Here is my motivational picture. **