Robert Jones\’s Interactive Maths

I was trying to explain to my advanced higher class why F=>T and F=>F both come out true.  I came across this Web site, that explains it quite nicely in terms of a promise.

In reply to my last post, Robin Strain asked “Can you persuade me the advantages of blogging?” Great question Robin - I think it deserves a fresh post
6 months ago I would have asked exactly the same question. I am involved with an online community of educators and technologists who seek to [...]

North Berwick High School is a medium-sized school, with 6 teachers in the maths department. East Lothian Council is a small authority with 6 high schools, and around 50 maths teachers.
Since beginning my secondment (one day per week) I’ve had the opportunity to visit each of the schools in East Lothian and spend time [...]

Mathematical Visualisation toolkit - another function plotter, plus lots lots more
MERLOT - a great directory of maths elearning resources.

Ollie’s blog pointed me to this cool site
It could come in handy for little phrases you’d pupils to remember, like

In part 1, we set up the user database to store all your classes. Now it’s time to actually do some voting!
Labelling the devices
Your voting pads will have numbers 1 to 32 on them somewhere. Take the time to write these numbers on the top with indelible marker pen. Trust me, you’ll [...]

At my visit to Musselburgh Grammar this morning, I spoke to some of the maths department about using Activote. They were enthusiastic about the potential of the technology, but said something like “it looks easy as you stand there and explain it, but we’ll forget everything you’ve said by the time we next come [...]