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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 13th, 2011  Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: coordinates | games-based learning | graphs.  2 comments - more welcome!Last week I found myself faced with the prospect of teaching two foundation groups (set 6 out of 6 in Y7 and Y8) how to draw straight line graphs from simple algebraic rules. Uh oh. I’ve tried lots of approaches to this over the years, but I’ve never really been happy with the results. [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 3rd, 2011 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: One comment so far - more welcome!I stumbled upon a very nice idea for some Chinese New Year themed maths on Yummy Math earlier this week. The animals in the Chinese zodiac are very well known, but the idea of elements was less familiar to me. A cycle of twelve animals, paired up with a another cycle of five [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 5th, 2010 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | e-learning Tags for this post: app | free | iPod | math | mathematics | maths | touch. 2 comments - more welcome!The maths department at Birley recently purchased 12 iPod touches for use in lessons. I’ve been getting them set up and trying them out. They have caused great excitement in my lessons – in fact, just seeing the iPods was enough to drive some of my students into a frenzy of excitement! Anyway, this [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 30th, 2010 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: Leave a commentThese were originally on a wiki, http://bccpgce.pbworks.com, but since I’m handing control of that over to the student teachers, I though I’d better keep a copy of my own: Starting out with Educational Technology The aim of the session is to provide you with some starting points and ideas that you can incorporate into [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: December 28th, 2009 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | 3. Teacherhacker | e-learning | Wordpress Tags for this post: image | rollover | Wordpress. Leave a commentYesterday I wrote about creating rollover images in WordPress. This is all very nice, but what’s the point? 1. Engagement Last term I sat with some students and asked them to show me things that they liked on various websites. There was no agreement whatsoever about preferred colour schemes, design styles or layouts, but [...] |
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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