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 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 is very [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: November 16th, 2009 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: discussion | math | mathematics | maths | parallel | perpendicular | photos | Sheffield. Leave a commentI really like using photos as a starting point to get my students talking about maths. I used this slideshow [PowerPoint] with Y7 to get them talking about parallel and perpendicular lines. Parallel Perpendicular All the photos are taken in Sheffield; I’ve found that pictures of our local area always go down [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: October 17th, 2009 Posted in: 3. Teacherhacker | displays Tags for this post: display | European Day of Languages | mathematics | maths. Leave a comment
This display may not look all that amazing, but it has proved to be a huge hit with our students. A couple of years ago, whilst on holiday in France, I spotted some postcards with cartoon drawings and some simple puzzles – in French. It struck me that these would be perfect for the [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: June 4th, 2009 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: education | elevation | M6 | math | mathematics | maths | module 6 | OCR | plan | Resources | views. Leave a commentI had a bit of fun with Google maps and street view today. I was teaching a Y9 maths class, it was our first lesson on the plans and elevations topic. I wanted them to understand what plan views and front or side elevations are Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: November 30th, 2008 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | e-learning Tags for this post: centimetre | cm | conversion | convert | education | free | Imperial | m | math | mathematics | maths | Measure Island | measurement | measuring | metre | metric | millimetre | mm | Resources | ruler | units. One comment so far - more welcome!OPTION 1: I’ve only got 5 seconds – what’s this all about? Click here to see the menu for The Ruler of the Island – a set of videos and activities that are designed for students to learn about measuring accurately using a ruler or tape measure. |
Hi, I'm Lois Lindemann - welcome to my blog! I teach maths and ICT at Birley Community College, 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 Birley CC.   |
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