It has been a busy time since I last posted about my NCTM conference. Since then I've gotten my students hooked on Mathletics and we have successfully added Mathletics to our curriculum arsenal. Currently I am using Mathletics as a warm-up for students in the classroom, but we are also using activities and lesson plans to get students engaged in learning in a whole new way. Just after getting Mathletics on board in school, I headed to another conference. This time I went to a Differentiating Instruction conference held by SDE . Honestly, I wasn't really excited about this conference. (1) During my graduate program and even during undergraduate studies, that is all you are taught. You are taught to differentiate instruction and how it needs to happen, ways it needs to happen, and why it needs to happen. DI, DI, DI... do it is what that needed to stand for. (2) My collea...