Desmos For All
I was most impressed with the Desmos Graphing Calculator last year. It’s a powerful and user friendly graphical calculator.
It’s just been re-written from the ground up in HTLM5 which means it will work perfectly on an iPad or other tablet. It’s genuinely impressive and exciting to see what magic coders are starting to weave with HTML5.
Head over to https://www.abettercalculator.com/c on any device to try it out for yourself.
Source: hackeducation.com
Ban Calculators?
Just catching up on last week’s reading and found the Conservative’s latest idea from the NC Review. Banning calculators in early years of Primary school.
As someone planning a one device per child school you’d think I’d be up in arms. But I teach maths. And most pupils arrive at our school aged 11 and don’t know their times tables. And it genuinely does hold them back for the rest of their mathematical (and general) lives. Technology is wonderful, but basic literacy and numeracy skills are still vital and will be for the foreseeable future.
What do you think?
Assistant Headteacher from Manchester, UK. This is a space for my thoughts on education, technology and more. Has for now taken over from my old blog at www.mrstucke.com
