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Spelling Tips

Posted by malyn on February 21, 2012

A few months ago, I told the story of Tania, a girl I met as a parent volunteer for the Literacy program at my daughter’s high school.  For a maths teacher, I place a seemingly unusual high importance on literacy and know that for some, numeracy problems stem from literacy issues. Today I met James (not his [...]

Art to express dyslexia

Posted by malyn on August 26, 2011

A year 12 student approached me today for help on sound editing as part of her HSC major work for Visual Arts.  As usual, I started off with my question, “What do you want to do?” As it turned out, Claire (not her real name) was creating a multi-media piece. She described how she wanted [...]

Reasoning in Maths

Posted by malyn on July 19, 2010

My year 8 class started a unit on Reasoning in Geometry today. Still going along the theme of teaching big-picture style as I did with Equations, I introduced this topic with a lesson inspired by @ddmeyer’s “How we talk about shapes” and @edteck’s (Peter Pappas) “Basic Communications exercise”. The premise is this…. Reasoning requires knowledge [...]