Posts about teaching Maths.
Like most teachers I have collected masses of resources over the years and created masses more. Lots of my resources which I believe to be free of copyright are stored online and catalogued with the excellent www.delicious.com. As I’m sure most readers are aware Delicious.com is a great social bookmarking website. It’s a place to…
Image via Wikipedia It is widely reported that Zinedine Zidane cost around £46 million pounds when he moved from Juventus to Real Madrid in 2001. In 2001 the Euro : Sterling exchange rate was around 0.6:1 £46m / 0.6 = €77m Now, that was over 7 years ago. That’s quite a while in the economic…
This post has been knocking around my head for a while, I hope it comes out as intended. I think it began to form whilst reading Dan Meyer‘s blog post questioning the use of Web2.0 in instructing Math. I have been trying to knit together my love of technology into my teaching of Maths ever…
I have been meaning to blog about a project I have had the pleasure of being involved with. The post hasn’t quite reached fruition yet so here’s a little teaser: How tall is the Giant? How did you work it out? Answers on a postcard (or preferably a comment 😉 )
I thought it time to share some of the resources that I use frequently and perhaps I take for granted. 1st up, nrich: nrich is a great UK website that is chock full of rich mathematical problems suitable for pupils from 5-19. The website has a teacher or pupil view. Following the link to the…
Sol Lederman has been filling my rss reader and my twitter stream with little golden nuggets of Maths over the last few months. He recently suggested a link/blog exchange between Maths bloggers which seems like a great idea to me – hence this post. So go check out his blog http://wildaboutmath.com/, maybe take part in…
Inspired by my former colleague Mr Hill, I have decided to approach my time with 9X1 a little differently this year. To cater for the range of ability and learning styles in this class I am going to offer them a platter of resources to learn from and a clear checklist of objectives for each…
Ofsted in their infinite wisdom have deemed that half of Maths teaching in England is not up to scratch. The focus appears to be ‘teaching to the test’, now who’d of thought schools might reort to such a thing when the other option is to be labled as failing? I hope that this is a…
Richard Taylor from www.tutpup.com passed his new site on to me in a recent comment on the blog: We have just beta released a new free maths games website which is starting to get quite a bit of traction in the UK. It’s free, has no ads, and allows kids to compete head to head…
The new KS3 Framework has a renewed focus on using and applying Maths along with developing the Personal, learning and thinking skills and the Cross-curricular dimensions introduced with the new National Curriculum. On reflection the content which we need to deliver has changed little and so with some tweaking our previous scheme of work will…