Age :14-15 There is a big party in our town. Our school has to decorate the town. We want to hang up bunting (using designs by our students) from the floor to the top of the tower. We already know the distance from the floor to the base of the tower (20 meters) and the 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…
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…
Collecting things
Scientists through the ages have always liked to organise things into collections and taxonomies as a way of better understanding them or providing a logical methodology for studying them. A great way to do this online with your class is to use Pinterest but beware, it can get addictive! Here is our collection of STEM “pins” but Full Article…
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…
Podcast some patterns
You can use podcasting or slidecasting as a way to create and share patterns. Use random.org or similar to generate a list of at least 20 random numbers, use one number per slide and create a presentation, be creative! Add music and upload the results to youtube or vimeo or slideshare. You can do the Full Article…
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