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!
Ban Calculators? Just catching up on last week’s reading and found the Conservative’s latest idea from the NC Review. Banning calculators in early years of Primary school. As someone planning a one device per child school you’d think I’d be up in arms. But I teach maths. And most pupils arrive at our school aged…
Apparently a review of IWB use in London showed little benefit to a child’s progress from the use of IWBs. Personally I’d be mortified if mine was taken away from me, but whether it actually benefits my pupils is an interesting question. I can see the argument that many are simply used as glorified data…
I’m trying out new themes at the moment, so if the site looks like someone has broken it – it’s all my fault!
I was most impressed with the Desmos Graphing Calculator last year. It’s a powerful and user friendly graphical calculator. It’s just been re-written from the ground up in HTLM5 which means it will work perfectly on an iPad or other tablet. It’s genuinely impressive and exciting to see what magic coders are starting to weave…
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…
Not all online learning networks actually thrive, here’s a tale of a failed attempt by myself: Ghost Town I have been involved with a couple of projects in Manchester as part of a collaborative of schools from across the city. Part of this was the continuation of the LEMA project and the creation of some…