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Ease **** Overview Learners will further develop their understanding of gravity by comparing weight measurements here on Earth with those on other worlds in our solar system. Learners will be asked to publish a report on their findings. Description Review what learners already know about gravity. You may wish to have them investigate Newton’s biography  Full Article…

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On-line Maths Glossary

Overview In order to encourage learners to use maths terms in class, creating a glossary on a wiki can be very helpful. By merely researching terms and definitions they will have to use the terminology! Discussing the quality and appropriateness of glosses will also improve their understanding and use of terminology in general. Description You  Full Article…

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ICT for ‘hard-to-teach’ maths topics

http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Hard-To-Teach-Secondary-Maths-Using-ICT-6047747/ Love this video – both because it provides practical ideas you can copy and also because it illustrates some of the tensions and divergences of opinion within maths teaching. In particular, it raises the issue of how much hand-calculating is necessary  – if any.  My personal opinion veers towards the ‘no hand calculation’ end  Full Article…

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The maths of bar codes

Investigate the maths behind bar codes and QR codes. On-line quiz Create a Pinterest board or a Glog and pin or stick text, images or multimedia that answer some or all of the following questions. All the answers are easily available using a Google search or searching with Wolfram Alpha How many digits does a  Full Article…

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Social Networking Statistics

Check out this beautiful visualisation by facebook with explanation here There used to be a great app called Friend Wheel which showes all of your facebook friends and draws lines to show who they are also friends with, at the time of writing the app is not working on Facebook but we’ll keep an eye  Full Article…

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