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 Ed Technology, Maths, News on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
The new KS3 Framework has a renewed focus on using and applying Maths along with developing the Personal, learning and thinking skills and the Cross-curricular dimensions introduced with the new National Curriculum.
On reflection the content which we need to deliver has changed little and so with some tweaking our previous scheme of work will suffice [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Mar 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
I have introduced a fantastic resource into both of my recent schools over the last 2 years. It continues to impress me to this day and it’s about time I wrote a glowing review of it!
MyMaths.co.uk has been around for a couple of years now and continues to grow. When I originally bought [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jul 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Following on from my previous post about GapMinder, Hans Rosling has made another inspiring talk at a TED conference.
His use of data continues to inspire me and pushes my thoughts on using this software in the classroom. With the abolition of data handling coursework next year more time will be freed up to look [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jun 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
At the end of an ordinary Year 9 lesson on scatter graphs I had a flash of inspiration and remembered the fantastic Gapminder World tool courtesy of Google and Gapminder.
For the uninitiated this is a dynamic graphing package populated with a range of data about countries covering the last 30 years. You choose [...]
