Graphing Google
Graphing Google Now you can plot mathematical functions right on the search result page. Just type in a function and you’ll see an interactive graph on the top of the search results page.
Ban Calculators?
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…
Raspberry Pi
Rasberry Pi gets one step closer! See here and here why it’s exciting.
Pre-Digital
Succinct and thought provoking piece by Seth Godin: Is your school pre-digital? I’ve spent much of the first 3 months of the school year setting up a new installation of SIMs. Much of our knowledge of our learners is digitised, but we really need some better software to make the most of this data. SIMs…
Return to Granny’s Garden?
The BBC along with Keri Facer at Manchester Metropolitan University are investigating the idea of a BBC Micro Mk2.0. For those of you who didn’t grow up in 80’s Britain, the BBC Micro was an Acorn computer, build for the BBC Computer Literacy Project and became the mainstay of early IT in almost every British school. An…
Arrington invests in Code Academy
Arrington invests in Code Academy I spotted the excellent Code Academy a few weeks ago. And it looks like I wasn’t alone. It’s received a huge round of funding including from Michael Arrington: What really excites me about Codecademy is that you can learn almost anything this way. All I can think of is how…
Digital game based learning: Minecraft maths
Digital game based learning: Minecraft maths Why didn’t I think of this? Exploring 3D shapes in Maths using Minecraft. Brilliant.
Keep Calm
Keep Calm poster maker app for iOS. Love it! will be using this in school for a poster campaign after half term. But for now off to the Lakes to follow my own advice!
Garden of cosmic speculation
skysugar: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is at Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. It is a private garden created by Charles Jencks. The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as Black Holes and Fractals.
Respect, Independence, Creativity & Drive
What videos or other resources would you use to share these values in a school? These are the four key values that we share as a school. We’ve spent a great deal of effort working as a school to develop and agree upon our core values and aims and from them a school improvement plan….