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Nexrad

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  1. Nexrad

    TE Jared Cook to Raiders

    If he turned down the offer from GB he must not have liked his role in the offence.
  2. Nexrad

    Dynasty Rookie Draft

    Agreed, it is so hard for TE to make impact in rookie year. They need to adjust to both NFL caliber D linemen and NFL receiving route trees.
  3. Nexrad

    Kenneth Dixon suspended 4 games

    Yes I will be keeping an eye on Dixon on the waver wire in week 3.
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    Spencer Ware?

    Lots going on in the Chiefs backfield, and they could go RB in the draft. Too soon to guess what value Ware is going to have, but a situation worth monitoring.
  5. They have the opportunity to reflect on the decisions they made, and decide how to adjust their choices going forward. I think that these are lessons that all fantasy players are faced with at times, because nobody make perfect predictions. We make the wrong prediction, we adjust our playing habits, and grow as fantasy players. Learning that even the best predictions can turn out to be wrong is a life lesson that can be transferred from a fantasy football game.
  6. Thank you for the resources. About your concerns about different interests, I am working with small groups in math intervention. I have already identified the group that I would incorporate FF into first - they all come to group wanting to talk football anyway. If I were to use FF in a whole group I would make it an activity students could choose for enrichment or to extend their studies.
  7. Fourth and fifth grade, but I work in small group setting with students who struggle with math or have fallen behind, students that need something to make math practice more meaningful.
  8. I knew that there was the possibility of negativity from this idea, I asked for both positive and negative feelings about the project. I thought that because we are all ff players that the concept of ff in math itself would be supported but I posted on the internet, so I should not have been surprised by the backlash. I do think that there might be a valid reason, out there, to not use ff in math and I have not heard it yet I am open to people's ideas. That said I feel that I have had a lot of support and some great testimonials, that I will use to reassure parents who are worried when I launch in the fall. I'll make sure to keep the FF Today community updated with my studies progress.
  9. I am a teacher, it comes with the territory, if I wanted respect in my profession I could have been a lawyer.
  10. No participation trophies, just friendly competition, which is a motivating factor for my students who are good sports and compete with each other well. Also "grading" with be on if students can take the raw stats from the weekends games for a player and accurately calculate player/overall scores. For example is your quarterback throws for 326 yards and yards are worth .15 then you need to be able to multiply 326 x .15, then you need to add up all the quarterback's scoring categorizes (touchdowns, rush yards, negatives for fumbles or interceptions) to get your QB score and then add all your players to get your weekly total. Lots of great math practice in calculating ff scores by hand!
  11. Thank you for the input, I am working with struggling math students and I do not see ff as a replacement for their math curriculum, just a fun and engaging way to practice calculations and making predictions a few times a week. My philosophy is to teach the skills then motivate the students to apply the skills. Also, thank you for your balanced view on American education. I think that teachers with their eyes open would agree that our system is not all that it could be and are willing to accept that teachers themselves have a share in the responsibility for what has gone wrong. I do my best from within the system to make sure I have my students needs and motivations at the forefront of my planning and to support/encourage my peers to do the same.
  12. Hello, I am collecting information from players of fantasy football about using fantasy football as a math activity on a fantasy football discussion board. I never thought it would cause so much drama. But this is the internet and so now that it has I am not surprised. I am going to share positive testimonial from ff players with parents to reassure them about the decisions I have made about the education of their children. I know that I don't have all the answers so I am open to criticism of my idea, I do not, however, plan on using criticism as testimonial to parents. I see criticism as potential areas that parents will push-back against my plan, I have seen already that the concern of gambling is going to come up right away and know that I will need a response showing that ff is a game not gambling. I also think that there might be a reason, that I have not thought of, why that this is a bad idea. If a poster shares that quality reason supported with facts and convinces me that I should not use ff, I will not need to present anything to parents because I will drop the project. I have not heard that reason supported with facts, yet. You supported using baseball stats for math class and I agreed that the stats from any sporting event are what makes those sports useful as a tools in a math class, and in my math class students do not only calculate answers, they using calculations to make decisions and support those actions - like setting a fantasy football lineup. I am still open to the reason that ff in math class is not a good idea but I am not going to consider to unsubstantiated attacks. You have made it very clear that you dislike teachers and consider them lazy, you comments did not seem directed at me personally but universally to all teachers, as a teacher I take offence to your repeated insults. They may come form a place of ignorance or you may have been deeply hurt by a teacher in the past, and if this is the case I am truly sorry. Your attacks on teachers, however, have not moved me to change my mind about my project. In fact I want to employ ff into my classroom more now, so my students understand that their teachers want them engaged in learning and don't grow up hating teachers.
  13. Right you hit the nail on the head. This is an extension of the math curriculum that will give students motivation to practice the skills from the curriculum. Thanks for sharing that resource, I had not see it.
  14. Thank you for sharing, would you mind if I included your thoughts as a testimonial when I present this project to parents?
  15. You have so many great ideas. Do you mind if I include some of your thoughts as a testimonial, when I present the project to parents?
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