Robert Jones\’s Interactive Maths

I went in to see the maths department at Knox today.  It was interesting to see how confidence has grown in the use of the whiteboards, and gratifying to be able to answer some questions about the use of the boards.
Rotation seems to lend itself particularly well to whiteboard work, based on what I saw [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]