Ed Balls has, well, sorry, had the balls to ditch SATs for 14 year olds in England. I can’t quite describe how elated I am! Ignoring last years fiasco, these tests have narrowed the curriculum, the teaching opportunities and pupils enthusiasm for the subject for years. The league tables that accompanied them often narrowed 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…
“Blue sky thinking” Thanks Frank for tagging me to participate in the meme passion quilt. It’s the first time I’ve been ‘tagged’ in one of these things and I appreciate it 🙂 The picture I chose is a photo I took at Glastonbury Festival some years ago, I got lucky lying by the Jazz stage…