Archive for September, 2009
- Eastern bloc :: It’s grim, it’s slow, everything’s badly designed and nothing really works properly: using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I wouldn’t change it for the world, because I’m an abject bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life. [...] :: Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- 20 number question quiz :: Download a JQZ file with 20 question MCQ on four functions, number words, and place notation. Link to Web page that displays a random selection of 10 of the 20 questions. There is a time limit of 20 minutes on the 10 questions just so my Numeracy students can get used to working against the clock. They [...] :: Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 :: Tags: hot potatoes, quizzes
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- Measuring: numeracy introduction :: Download a PDF version of a presentation on measurements with photos produced especially Download a pdf with some group activities about measurement. This set of activities is designed to get people actually measuring and moving around the class. Along the way, they will confront skills such as recording data, making tables to show results, working with [...] :: Sunday, September 27th, 2009 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Estimating :: Download a one side handout with some estimation and BODMAS examples used for homework. This one side homework was produced by copying and pasting from other worksheets I have written over the last few years. Definitely a 20 minute task. We use estimation questions as a way for students to show understanding of the sequence of [...] :: Thursday, September 24th, 2009 :: Posted in 20 minutes, Maths | Comments Off
- Gratuitous Images :: Polish tea bags and Walker Evans :: Saturday, September 19th, 2009 :: Posted in Photos | Comments Off
- Number questions :: Just a PDF with 40 four function questions with numerical answers. You can never have enough examples. This was used as a class exercise as individual work, and I had useful conversations with individual students about concrete examples. Issues around columns, place notation &c as usual. A little bit of subtraction, some short and long multiplication [...] :: Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Smedley Butler :: “I believe in adequate defence at the coastline and nothing else.” War Is Just a Racket. Composed by Kyle Gann; performed by Sarah Cahill. The soldier speaks. Good luck chaps. :: Saturday, September 12th, 2009 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Schlingen-Blängen :: “As we entered Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, a perfect fifth was already ringing on the organ. Little by little Charlemagne added notes, held down with little wooden splints, and pulled out additional organ stops to thicken the roar of sound. Finally he plunged onto the keyboard with both forearms, and, with overtones at maximum [...] :: Friday, September 11th, 2009 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Upgrade :: Upgrade Now :: Monday, September 7th, 2009 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Comparing like with like :: “Researchers asked 3,000 11 to 14-year- olds in England to sit maths exams taken by pupils in 1976, and compared their scores with the earlier results. Analysis suggested there was little difference between the two generations.” BBC News article (no attribution) What I noticed about this research is the way ‘maths’ is assumed to have some [...] :: Saturday, September 5th, 2009 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- New Literacy :: “The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That’s because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom—life writing, as [...] :: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off