Love2Learn

… programming is not really the practice of writing lines of code. It is the art of taking big, intractable problems and breaking them down into ever smaller ones which can be understood, explained and then carefully assembled into a living, breathing work of art. Software is poetry. It’s the expression of ideas in the most [...]

I love it when things start to converge in my mind. This post will attempt to encapsulate this convergence; attempt being the operative word. As Jack Dorsey said, simplifying the complex is not easy. Try I must to help me document my thinking. I blogged about Maths not = calculating in reference to Wolfram’s computerbasedmath.org [...]

I came across computerbasedmath.org (maths ≠ calculating) via @JeffUtecht’s post My 25%PD. Both these links are worth visiting but let me focus on the first. computerbasedmath.org founded by Conrad Wolfram – yup, the Wolfram behind the site anyone who’s ever googled a maths problem/question would have visited at some stage. Conrad Wolfram’s TED talk \”Stop teaching calculating [...]

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. [...]

Analogies and Directed Numbers Directed Numbers – positive and negative numbers – is abstract, particularly the negative thing.  Bank statements aside, it is rare for us to see negative numbers. We don’t even have sub-zero temperatures here in Sydney; not in our waking moments anyway. While I’ve taught my year 7 class about ‘two negatives [...]