Yup. I'm Ray Appel.
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"Loved your sense of humour, your passion, the reassurance that this is something I can teach, the assurance that we can teach it in many different ways. I learned a lot!"


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"Just so much useful information that can be used tomorrow, next week, throughout the year! Really practical ideas and creative ways to teach!!!"


“You gave another awesome, inspiring workshop today - thanks again! Finally, I'm beginning to understand where adaptation of resources and student communication of ideas fit into my program, and your ideas have been instrumental in helping me work that through!”


“Thank you very much for presenting at these workshops you have made math fun for me to teach and your workshops are interactive and engaging!”



"It was an awesome morning.  Ray has to come back!  I learned so much and was so motivated by the content.  His presentation was entertaining and so interesting!"


"Lots of good thinking and sharing time, with a lot of connections to our classrooms!"


"I started the session feeling very tired and was amazed how engaged I was despite this!"


“You gave another awesome, inspiring workshop today - thanks again! Finally, I'm beginning to understand where adaptation of resources and student communication of ideas fit into my program, and your ideas have been instrumental in helping me work that through!”


“Thank you very much for presenting at these workshops you have made math fun for me to teach and your workshops are interactive and engaging!”


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Get to know me...
My mom loves this clip! She says this is ME.
What do you think? Weird thing is, I do things like this!


How can we get more time?
If you do something in your class for 15 minutes every day, that equals 2 full weeks of school time! Yikes! Ray gives a few ideas in just 180 seconds!


Fraction Juice?
Procedure and Concept have to solve a problem. Which orange juice recipe is stronger? One walks away with a procedure and a correct answer. The other walks away with a correct answer and a deep conceptual understanding by using one-half as a benchmark. Do we SKIP the concept over the procedure?



Adding "Trick" (with patterns!)
This is another Zapple Teachable Minute! How can you add up sets of 3 digit numbers that your friends or students call out? How can you add up in just seconds? Here's the trick! ...But we'll also look at the patterns that we can find, so it's way more than just an adding trick. ...all in less than 180 seconds.


Division with Remainders


The Born Numeracy
To be used in classrooms to help students see and share their ideas of how math is used in the real world. Done in a quick, fast-paced, action-packed style of the Borne Identity.


Yeti Goes for a Walk
A test. I took my 18 year old cat for a walk. Then I filmed him with my new iPhone 3GS. After that, I put it into iMovie, added some music and transitions and then this is the result. I just wanted to see what it would look like that's all... It didn't seem to work when I tried to upload it as a .mov or a .mp4. Now I'm trying DivX, but I've heard it not that good... Let's see what happens. That's all.



Yeti Goes for a Walk Two (the sequel)...
This is the sequel to Yeti's walk last summer. It's done in the style of those old annoying educational videos from the fifties and early sixties where the narrator totally patronized the school kids by treating them as if they didn't know anything... The narration is meant to be kind of annoying... it's all part of the show. Created with my iPhone. Lots of fun!



Yeti Goes for a Very Short Walk
Took 20 year old Yeti for a walk. Clear skies above. I stepped back, turned around, walked ahead, and looked up. At least five hawks appeared out of nowhere, and swooped down... lower and lower. Look out Yeti! I took Yeti inside. Yikes! Incredible how quickly it all happened...


Yeti's bestest friend: Jupiter


Gabriola Petroglyphs meets Indiana Jones and LOST
Here's a little video I made about going to the Gabriola Petroglyphs with two male buddies.  We were just walking along and I shot a few clips on the iPhone, then got back and made it into a short little movie. 


Some of my paintings:


SOLD - 48" x 36" Dark Poppies, 2006
(Acrylic painting)


24" x 30" Twin Beaches, 2011 (Acrylic painting)


Twin Beaches, 2011 DETAIL


NFS - 36" x 24" Lesley's Kayak Tip, 2010
(Acrylic painting)


48" x 36" Yeti Dreams Of? 2009 (Acrylic painting)
Currently on display at Yaletown Pet Hospital


NFS - 48" x 36" Here Comes the Sun 2005
(Acrylic painting)


36" x 24" Good Day Sunshine 2008 (Mixed media)


SOLD - 48" x 36" Where Are You Winston? 2003 (Mixed Media)


Constructivism (Coloured pencil drawing)
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