Introduced volume to year 7 supp class today as part of our measurement unit. We began with an image on screen similar to this one, using the ‘delete the textbook’ method to generate some questions/discussion: One of the students knew Read More …
Tag: videos
Surface area tasks (inc Pop box design one for Year 8?)
Found this website on a search of the net for some good discussion/opening type question on surface area: http://mrpiccmath.weebly.com/blog/3-acts-pop-box-design Thanks to the author there who has created some nice little videos and even accompanying worksheets to go along with the lesson. Read More …
Simple and compound interest with Year 9
Looking forward to trying this one tomorrow! Looks like a cracker to me to introduce the idea of simple and compound interest in my year 9 maths class… http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/frysbank/ Although this one is based on the simple compound interest formula, Read More …
Video/Other resources on understanding/teaching those with a disability
Confronting video shown in RINE putting adults in situation of what its like to be a student with a disability (of various kinds) in a classroom where it’s not really catered for. Explores different assumptions, pressures, stresses etc… How Difficult Read More …
Funny maths video – complex numbers
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNxaSct3UHs?fs=1&feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&w=480&h=270] see also: http://youtu.be/ixSCjigDeM8 – on how to do it!
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/
Technology – changing who we are, how we relate
Thought provoking video on digital technology re: communication etc. Where is it taking us? To places we don’t want to go?? People now not connecting as they were, not knowing how to be alone, searching for online connections, yet ultimately Read More …
Students teaching themselves?!
“A teacher that could be replaced by a machine should be”! See what happens when students are left with a computer and each other (collaboratively learning)… [ted id=949 lang=en]
Video Resource site and File listing stacks of web resources
Potential sources of some good information 1) http://www.freetech4teachers.com (see also http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/02/vusafe-safe-way-to-view-youtube-in.html about a ‘safe’ way to view youtube in schools. 2) http://www.schoolsworld.tv/index.php Came across second one during uni watching a video all about a family with multiple kids on the Read More …
Changing Education Paradigms
Cool you tube video to challenge thinking about the education system and the potential for nurturing ‘divergent’ thinkers… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U?rel=0]