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Adding life to old problems! Free
I recently went to an International School in Geneva to work with their mathematics department for a day as part of their adoption of a 'bring your own device' scheme. It is always a pleasure to do such...
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Mathematics Scrapbooks Free
'Thinking about what we keep and how we keep it' This is an old blog post I wrote last year somewhere else. It has come back to my mind again because I recently read an article in the MT journal from...
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Wrong, right, misleading? Free
This post is a great example of the type of distraction that crosses my path all too often these days. My life was so much simpler before twitter and facebook. This one started when I picked up this article...
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Mathagogy, one question lessons and making cones Free
This is a blog post to support my video entry to the mathagogy project from @pepsmccrea. The project is a fabulous idea and I can hardly wait to see some of the video entries! Anyway, I have made my video ...
Getting started
BYOD Geneva Free
This page is set up for the BOYD professional development day at the International School of Geneva, Campus des Nations, May 21st 2013. The focus is on the impact of having computers at your disposal...
Getting started
ISMTF 2012 Engaging Learners Free
Dynamic geometry and graphing software provide an amazing opportunity to engage learners. Beautiful graphs, dynamic images, video type games can provide a hook to instantly absorb students. In this 90...
Geometry
Polygons & Stars TN
This activity gets students to discover how to produce regular polygons. It is best attempted before they know the sum of exterior angles. The aim is to generate a set of instructions for an online...
Statistics & Probability
Scattergraphs - 15 Countries Free
Match the scattergraphs with the countries! This task is really easily explained! Simply decide which of the scattergraphs goes with which of the countries. To do this it might help to consider the following...
Statistics & Probability
AIDS-HIV Statistics-TN Free
Practice interpreting statistics and graphs, percentages and ratio and have a look at some real data about HIV and AIDS worldwide. Students are given eight pieces of information about eight different...
Number
Squares Cubes Roots TN
“One thing we’ve seen is that the best learning experiences come when people are actively engaged in designing things, creating things, and inventing things - expressing themselves." (DMLCentral) The...