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For the first time in about four years I won’t be visiting BETT this year in London. For the un-initiated BETT is an enormous educational technology trade show / conference held at Olympia in London each January. Things I’ll miss: Bumping into other educators I know from Twitter etc. Attending some of the fringe events…
£100 million for Kaka – crazy? Look at the Maths…
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…
Letter Rush
Letter Rush is yet another word game for iOS devices. I’m looking forward to trying this out with learners at school next week. The twist is that the words that need spelling are provided for you, you then make them from the word grid as quickly as you can. Games like Letterpress or Wordtower where…
cre8ate maths
Cre8ate maths is a fantastic set of rich mathematical activities developed by the Centre for Science Education (CSE) with the mathematics lead from the Mathematics Education Centre (MEC), of Sheffield Hallam University. They have been created to support schools in Yorkshire & Humberside, and are focussed on the 12 priority industry sectors of the area. …
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Gapminder World
At the end of an ordinary Year 9 lesson on scatter graphs I had a flash of inspiration and remembered the fantastic Gapminder World tool courtesy of Google and Gapminder. For the uninitiated this is a dynamic graphing package populated with a range of data about countries covering the last 30 years. You choose two…
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Using Google Docs For Shared Revision Lists
I have put together a list of revision topics for my Y11 GCSE class on a Google Spreadsheet. Pupil names along the top, topics down the side and a set of cells in-between with Red Amber Green conditional formatting. Once it’s finally unblocked at school (don’t get me started!!) I hope that the class and…