Sourced via twitter (@laurenduca), this one is a good statistics / bar graph / bar chart discussion starter! There was also a link Dan Meyer provided to this graph on life expectancy v. health expenditure (reminds me of the statistics Read More …
Tag: maths
Marking and Feedback
Marking seems to take up a stack of my time (I feel slow) and I am passionate about making it a worthwhile learning experience for the students. And so, after considerable time consuming and being shaped by multitude of sources, Read More …
Video on using maths games to support learning
A look at how one residential school for boys with behavioural, social and emotional difficulties uses games to support the maths curriculum: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Mathematics-for-All-Playing-Mathematically-6084982/
Improving maths students performance
From case study exploring why Chinese students do so well compared to Western counterparts. One result from this particular study (albeit limited in scope) was that teachers need to: “encourage Anglo-Australian parents’ involvement in and motivating their children to learn Read More …