Posted in News on Oct 14th, 2008 No Comments »
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 school’s [...]
Posted in Maths on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
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 but [...]
Posted in Me! on Mar 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
“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 [...]
