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 [...]
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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 3rd, 2011  Posted in: 2. Events and Happenings | for students Tags for this post:  3 comments - more welcome! Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 2nd, 2011 Posted in: 2. Events and Happenings | for students Tags for this post: Leave a commentWorld 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 [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: December 2nd, 2009 Posted in: 2. Events and Happenings | for students Tags for this post: Escher | STEM | STEM Club | tessellation | tile. Leave a commentI 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 [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: November 18th, 2009 Posted in: 2. Events and Happenings | for students Tags for this post: STEM | STEM Club. Leave a commentWe had second attempt at relaunching STEM Club today – and it was much more successful than the trip that we were forced to abandon last week. This week we just ran a few simple challenges for a group of Y7, Y8 and Y9 students. Science: Neutralise it We gave the students some sodium [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: October 7th, 2009 Posted in: 2. Events and Happenings | for students Tags for this post: Bang Goes the Theory | science. 2 comments - more welcome!This is public service blog post for the surprising number of people who have arrived here looking for it! Some Birley students and one of my colleagues featured in episode 10 of Bang Goes the Theory. They were brilliant, but you can see that for yourself if you watch them on the BBC i-player. (I’m claiming [...] |
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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