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Percentage Composition

Posted by malyn on February 17, 2010

I wanted to make this lesson a bit more interesting as well as incorporate opportunities for connections with other maths topics. I knew my year 8 class students loved music so I devised a very simple poll on Rob Thomas (one of the students was going to his concert): like him, don’t like him, don’t know him. [...]

Reflection as part of learning

Posted by malyn on November 4, 2009

Our maths faculty head teacher set a ‘soft’ challenge a while ago to have some subjective assessments. I took this on board and have devised an assessment task that incorporated self-reflection which was another skill I’d like my students to practice; 2 birds in one stone. Reflection is essential in developing sound mathematical thinking, apart [...]