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 some of the Maths challenges and have a look through his blog-roll, there is a wealth of good Maths out there!
9 Ways to Turn Around a Failing School — Sir William Atkinson 2 min read I had the pleasure of seeing Sir William Atkinson close the GL-Assessment Conference on Friday. He’s an incredible character, responsible for turning around ‘the worst school in England’. He regaled that tale to us, reflecting on the 10 years it took to…
I’ve finally got round to changing my 3 default passwords using this method. I have 1 for banking. 1 for my main social media and blogging accounts and then 1 for all the other sites I subscribe to.
A short post to accompany a presentation at the AECRICT12 TeachMeet at Manchester Met Uni tonight. Digital Leaders is a simple but brilliant idea that has gained great traction in schools across the UK and beyond over the past 3 years. In a nutshell.. use students to lead technology supported learning in your school. Student leadership in…
School colour-codes pupils by ability I’m trying to work out just how wrong this is? I know it’s not right because it just feels terribly wrong. But. I do support setting, we do it in Maths in every secondary school I’ve ever worked in because it just works. Pupils do need to work at different…
The title sounds like a nasty affliction – but I actually want to describe a great lesson! I was looking for a nice challenge for my Year 9 Computing class to continue developing their understanding of variables, if statements and loops – ideally moving on to nested statements and loops. As ever Twitter came to…
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…