International Bingo

Here’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. [...]

A Mathematical Easter Egg Hunt

I was amused by an advert in the window of my local Oxfam shop a couple of weeks ago. "Easter Egg Hunt?" it asked, before adding, "Clue: they’re in here." I haven’t been in to buy any eggs yet, but it did remind me that it was time to set up a very popular [...]

World Maths Day

World Maths Day may have been yesterday (1st March), but happily the final dateline wasn’t crossed until late this morning, so my Y8 group had a chance to take part.

Sometimes it’s good to stop worrying about levels and just have some fun! And much fun was had – they loved it. There [...]

Teachmeet Sheffield

This is probably a really bad idea, but I’m going to try to live blog….

A nice welcome from Catherine…

… and the livestream is at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/teachmeet-nqt-sheffield

[Comments are my own blatherings. Errors are mine – don’t blame the presenters!]

1. Graham Hoey – talking about Activ Inspire

Demonstrates How to use [...]

On the Tiles

I was going to wait until we had finished until I blogged about this, but I’m really excited about our latest STEM Club project!

We’re making Escher style tiles – real, actual clay tiles and it’s great fun.

Last week we started by setting the students a challenge:

Making Escher Tiles View more presentations [...]

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