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Mapping Data on Google Maps
I’ve been playing around with two tools for mapping data onto Google Maps. They both have potential in and out of the classroom.
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Experiments in Spaced Learning
It’s exam time again already, and with it came the usual request from my Head of Department for any innovative ideas of how we could approach revision / lay on extra things for the Year 10 & 11s before there first exam next month. This prompted a memory of a newspaper article about a school…
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Data Collection & Questionnaires with Google Docs & Twitter
Interview Reflection: Part 2: My interview lesson was rated as ‘good with outstanding features’ and as that was in part thanks to my network I thought it only fair I shared it with the World. I chose to teach a lesson focusing on data collection using questionnaires. A tricky lesson to get right I finally…
Sharing Resources
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…
£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…
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Maths 2.0
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…
A LEMA Teaser
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 😉 )
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nrich – rich mathematical tasks
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…
A weight lifted – SATs
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…
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Tutpup.com – Mental Maths Magic
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…