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Does Gove Get Games?
Does Gove Get Games? A strangely positive sounding report from the great Edge Magazine quotes Gove speaking at The Royal Society, in particular referring to the excellent www.mangahigh.com that Marcus du Sautoy has had some input in. “I am sure that this field of educational games has huge potential for maths and science teaching and…
Thanks to my network
Interview reflection: Part 1: I was successful in my interview for the post of Director of E-Learning at Stretford High School, I’m delighted and thoroughly looking forward to starting in September. The day obviously went well, my lesson was praised as being good with many outstanding features, I’ll reflect upon that in Part 2 of…
LEMA – Update – More rich mathematical tasks
The fantastic Manchester collaborative of teachers I have been working with have finished our final set of rich mathematical tasks. I previously blogged about the work we had been doing and provided links to some zip files with the resources. These seem to have been really popular judging by the traffic on that post. Read…
