Archive for the 'mathematics' Category

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 [...]

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.




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