How to Become a Better Post Player

When trying to become a better post player there are several things you need to concentrate on and try to do. Here are some of them.

1. Creating space/thinking about where you are posting 

   When posting the most physical player usual wins. A good post player knows how to create space to get open on the block and create space to create passing angles for the pass. Creating space is done with your butt and your arms up and no fending off with your arms. Once you understand how to create space then worrying about where you catch the ball becomes important. Good post players score with no move needed. You should try and catch the ball as close to the basket as possible. 

2. Running the floor 

   Running the floor along with rebounding are the easiest ways for a post player to get free points. Running the floor is all effort and you do not need to be fast to be great at running the floor. 

How to Buy Fireworks on a Budget

How to Buy Fireworks Cheap

So the 4th of July is approaching and you want to buy some fireworks but don't want to spend much money. Here are some tips on how to do this. 

Create a budget.   

Before ever going to a fireworks tent or warehouse determine how much money you are willing to spend and decide to stick to that amount no matter what. Let's face it the job of the sells people is to explain what firework does what and to sell to you. If you have a money amount already determined then their only job to you becomes to inform you. When first walking into the tent let the salesperson know your budget so they can steer you in the right direction. 

Shop around.  

Fireworks tents seem to follow a philosophy. The better location the higher the prices and the worse the location the lower the prices. If there is one tent where you are there are bound to be more in the area so visit them all to see which has the best prices. When looking find an item in every section and compare at the other tents. Avoids the bottle rockets comparison except if you plan to by many bottle rockets.

The 10 Best Apps To Get You Started on Your Android Phone

If you just received your android phone or have gotten a new android phone here are ten apps you must have along with the apps preloaded on your android phone.  As you can see when looking at the apps I really enjoy the customizable features of the android phone and its apps.

• AutomateIt - Allows your phone to read your mind.  You can load actions for the phone to automatically take when something happens.  Really useful in the car.  I have mine automatically turn my volume on when I get home, start Pandora when I plug in headphones, set my media volume to 70% when Pandora opens, etc.  The combinations are limitless.  I have the free version but there is a paid version with more features.
• Dolphin Browser - Simply the easiest fastest browser to use.
• ESPN Scorecenter - Customizable alerts on your favorite teams makes this a must have for any sports fan. 
• Handcent - A better messaging option than the stock messenger.  Allows for tons of customization from the viewer to notifications to sending and receiving messages.

2 Easy Ways to Make Money as a College Student

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Moral and Easy Ways to Make Money for College Students

As a college student or an ordinary person looking to make a little cash without extending much energy two easy ways are donating plasma and submitting writing to the internet.

Plasma – Plasma is a life giving and wallet extending experience. You can give plasma up to two times a week usually earning 50-60 dollars a week. The key is finding a plasma center which efficiently gets patients

in and out. When I was giving plasma while in college I earned $55 a week and it took me about 3 hours to donate (1.5 hours a visit). The key is to drink a ton of water before and after going to remain hydrated because plasma is mostly water. I have never experienced any side effects from it and have done extensive research on the process and it is safe. It does leave you with a nice looking scar though.

Writing – Everyone in college has to write papers for one class or another. Since you already have to write them why not make a little money off them. creating your own blog. It is fairly easy to set up and once that is done the only thing you have to do is copy and paste your papers to submit them.

Playing with Probability, Percent, Ratios, and Circles Lesson 5

Children's Books

Using Children's Books to Understand Probability, Percent, Ratios, and Circles

The beginning of this unit plan can be found here.

Lesson 5

Today's lesson is going to take everything we have learned in the previous lessons and combine them. Hopefully the other lessons have introduced combining the mathematics but today this will be driven home. I really want today to be more like a work day and not a teaching day. I want to read A Very Improbable Story and for them to do the rest of the project with almost no instruction from me. I plan on walking around while they are working on their projects but hopefully in their groups they will be able to answer each other's questions without any of my help. This is how the differentiation will be done in this lesson. Also I will spend more time with groups which I feel might struggle more.

Playing with Probability, Percent, Ratios, and Circles Lesson 4

Children's Books

Using Children's Books to Understand Probability, Percent, Ratios, and Circles

The beginning of this unit plan can be found here.

Lesson 4

In today's lesson we are going to be using what we learned about percents and turning them into a visual display of data. Today's lesson is going to be fun because we are going to be creating charts so therefore the students are going to get to use markers and their artistic ability. Where in the other lessons in this book were used to introduce and give the students problems to solve, todays book in mostly going to be used for a background and reasoning for why we are going to calculate the central angle theorem. Today's lesson background information is a proof on the central angle. I do not expect my students to be able to comprehend the proof but do want to point out two things. The first being what a professional mathematical proof looks like because many have never seen one. Also the radius and diameter are used in the proof so therefore what they learned in previously math classes is not unimportant.

Playing with Probability, Percent, Ratios, and Circles Lesson 3

Using Children's Books to Understand Probability, Percent, Ratios, and Circles

The beginning of this unit plan can be found here.

Lesson 3

Today's lesson can be approached in two different ways and I want to do it both ways. I want my students to be able to understand a percent as a ratio and also a proportion as a ratio. In the book Pythagoras and the Ratios: A Math Adventure ratios are presented using only two but since in this unit we are working with probability problems which can deal with more than one I need to introduce this also. Today's lesson has a moment where the students can show me their transfer ability and critical thinking skills. In today's lesson I am going to ask the students to answer a question which we have not covered yet but they have all of the tools to solve. I think it is important to ask these questions periodically because in the real world examples students are shown almost always are similar but not the same as the problems they will be asked to solve. Again this lessons activating strategy is also the exit ticket because I am using the activating strategy is the goal we are working towards. The lesson will be differentiated in two ways. The first being when I walk around I will spend more time with the students who usually struggle. Also the students are encouraged to ask someone else in the class for help if they are struggling. This allows for more than one teacher in the room.