One of the things I like about returning to topics that I’ve taught many times is that I can predict what misconceptions my students are likely to have and try to address them. Sometimes that’s not so easy, especially if the nature of the misconception isn’t clear to me. This is the case with [...]
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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: September 26th, 2011  Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post:  Leave a comment Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: September 22nd, 2011 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | 2. Events and Happenings | resources and ideas Tags for this post: Leave a commentHere’s a nice maths activity for European Day of Languages: BODMAS / BIDMAS bingo. So far I’ve made four versions: French, Spanish, German and Italian. To play you will need: Bingo grids A list of the numbers from 1 – 10 in the language that you are using. The lists include pronunciation guides. [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: June 4th, 2011 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: 2 comments - more welcome!It’s that time of year again, GCSE exams are imminent for several year groups, end of year exams loom for others. The revision season is definitely in full swing. I’ve been using a few starter activities for my classes as a bit of quick revision on some topics, the ones listed below are all [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 15th, 2011 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: angles | exterior angles | polygons. Leave a commentI started a lesson with my Y8 top set which assumed some prior knowledge of exterior angles. They’re a great class, so I wasn’t expecting to do much in the way of a recap, but we did a quick understanding check using some mini-whiteboards before launching into the main part of the lesson. [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 13th, 2011 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: Mobius | Valentine's Day. Leave a commentI don’t really do Valentine’s Day. To say Mr MTM dislikes it would be putting it rather mildly, so to be honest, it’s just not worth the hassle. I changed my mind last year though, when Peter Rowlett tweeted a link to a Möbius Valentine’s card. It’s really simple: two Möbius strips get glued [...] |
Hi, I'm Lois Lindemann - welcome to my blog! I teach maths at Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School, a secondary school in the UK. This is where I'm planning to share links and explore ideas that I find useful or interesting - hopefully other educators will also find something of interest here. Thanks for dropping in. Feel free to comment. NB: Any opinions expressed here are those of the author or commenter; they don't (necessarily) reflect the view taken by Dronfield Henry Fanshawe.   |
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