Tina Cardone

• Blog: http://drawingonmath.blogspot.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/crstn85

Nix The Tricks

History

In 2013, Cardone sparked a conversation on twitter about tricks that teachers hate seeing their students use. She proposed creating a shared document for teachers to add the tricks that they found unproductive for learning. The document attracted many collaborators, and soon grew to 17 pages. Since then Cardone has expanded and reorganized this document into a full length book form.

Influence

Nix The Tricks serves as an example of the potential of collaborative efforts on the internet to yield significant results. It also helps identify and provide a shared language of "tricks" for high school math teachers.

http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2013/nix-the-tricks/ http://mathcoachblog.com/2014/02/15/nix-the-tricks-ap-stats-edition/ http://mathcoachblog.com/2014/05/02/dont-f-ing-curse-in-math-class/ http://mathcoachblog.com/2013/03/05/3-phrases-from-math-class-we-need-to-expunge/ http://blog.mrwaddell.net/archives/962 http://gfletchy.com/2015/01/12/teaching-keywords-forget-about-it/

http://nixthetricks.com/

Publications

Cardone, T. (2015). Nix The Tricks: A guide to avoiding shortcuts that cut out math concept development..