Posts about education, teaching, learning etc.
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 😉 )
My Promethean Activboard is great, I need a new projector, but I’m a big fan of the boards and the software. So I’m quite excited that there is some new software incoming. I’m really pleased that I’ve been offered an early download of the software. Canny marketing work by Promethean offering the software to bloggers…
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…
As I have previously blogged, the introduction of adverts on Edublogs was enough to make me finally move out and set up on my own. This proved to be both a simple and satisfying process. Eggs in 2 baskets: After reading up a little around the web about hosting your own blog it became apparent…
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…
Many thanks to all those who commented on my rant last month with regards to Internet filtering etc within school, I know it’s something a lot of us come up against each and every day. I thought I’d quickly update those who were interested on my progress. I put together a list of exemplars of…
As I have just ranted about on Tom Barrett’s blog post about using Google Docs for online reporting to parents, I am becoming increasingly frustrated with trying to use the Internet both myself and with pupils at school. It is to all intents and purposes blocked and Web 2.0 seems to be considered a security…
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…