Archive for November, 2006

A Great Information Handling Site

I came across this today - the best high school level stats site I’ve seen:
http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/

The word on the street is that multiple choice is coming back for higher. With this in mind, I’ve scanned 40 old (I mean very old) higher questions and put them into a flipchart as ACTIVote questions, with the right answer stored for each one. This could definitely be improved, but as [...]

The beauty of maths

It isn’t often that you come across a blog entitled “the beauty of mathematics” so I thought I’d share it

Today I visited North Berwick High School. I had a great day, but only managed to visit half the department. This was partly because I got caught up in Ski trip admin first thing - getting caught up in stuff is always a risk when you are out of classes in your own [...]

This Friday, the maths teachers of East Lothian were guests of the Ross High School maths department. We were treated to a mouth-watering spread of home baking before we began the session - most appreciated, and I’d like to think that a precedent has been set!
John from Promethean kicked off the afternoon with a session [...]

Our first learning blog

My wonderful S3 general maths class have begun blogging. Mhari volunteered to be scribe for yesterday’s lesson, and produced a great first post, on Prime Numbers. She has set the standard high! Her post does contain one little slip - I’m hoping that someone else in the class will spot it and mention [...]

Visit to Dunbar

I popped into Dunbar this morning - and had the good fortune to walk into Wendy’s birthday party.
We discussed the use of blogs in education, and despite my confusing explanation Mags has decided to start a learning blog with one of her classes. Douggie also expressed interest in doing so. I’m delighted about [...]




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