Robert Jones\’s Interactive Maths

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 afternoon I made it to Ross High School to visit Tracey and the rest of the department. As ever, I was made to feel very welcome, and was again struck by the skill and professionalism of my maths colleagues.
I chatted to Tracey about the November 3rd meeting of maths teachers at Ross, which [...]

My brief session at SETT went quite well I think. I spoke about how I’ve been using the Activote pads for formative assessment in my classroom, and gave out the voting pads for the audience to play with. Nothing particularly new about this, but I did emphasise a few points that have helped [...]

Tomorrow I’ll be heading off to SETT. I am doing a 30 minute slot in the Education Village Learning Zone B from 15:45, so please take a wander in my direction (if you haven’t already disappeared to check into you hotel by then!). It’s going to be a very “hands on” session, so come [...]

This afternoon I met with Ewan McIntosh then Karen Robertson. I’ve written a bit about my fascinating meeting with Ewan
here.
I chatted with Karen about what I’m going to be up to on Wednesdays this year. We checked up about the ActiVote installation issues that I’ve mentioned before - apparently most schools are still [...]

I had the pleasure of visiting the Dunbar Grammar maths department this morning. I was made very welcome, and even given a doughnut!
The whole department had some non-contact time at the start of the day, so we spent my visit discussing the use of the boards, and sharing some tips and tricks. I [...]

What a great day! On the first day of my one-day-per-week secondment to “support the use of interactive whiteboards in maths to improve learning and teaching” I visited Preston Lodge High School in the morning and Knox Academy in the afternoon.
Callum and Linda (the Principal Teachers) were both most welcoming, and I got a [...]

My last post said that I was visiting Ross and PL tomorrow (Wednesday). This was wrong - it’s actually PL (am) and Knox (pm). Ross will be seeing me next Wednesday, when I’ll also be visiting Dunbar. I didn’t get a chance to arrange a visit to Musselburgh with Fiona at the [...]

All the maths teachers in East Lothian got together on Friday to hear about
E-Starters. I was really impressed. It’s been on my computer since the beginning of term, but I hadn’t really taken the time to explore what it could do.
I’m guessing that many maths teachers across East Lothian may be in a [...]

My esteemed colleague Mr Stebbing got the chance to use the Activote system with his class for the first time this afternoon.
It took him a bit of time to set things up correctly - mainly because the class lists I used to create the user database were out of date - but once he’d got [...]