My daughter is in Year 5 and yes it is NAPLAN year; even if I’ve forgotten this fact, her homework would have reminded me. She has just finished worksheets on multiples and factors – including concepts of highest common factor, lowest common multiple. She told me they haven’t been taught in class – which, if […]
TeachMeets are fantastic events for teaching and learning. Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be part of a big one at the ATP (TMWR2012); big enough to be featured in the Sydney Morning Herald: Lesson in Numbers. The TMWR2012 journey began for me from the moment I volunteered to be part of the organising committee, […]
More About Me I am a parent of two girls who are lovely, most of the time. One’s a young teen and the other is a tween. I worked as an IT professional in Software Development in its heyday and lived through the clichéd IT terms like Y2K bug, Project and Process Management (remember Business Process Re-engineering?), […]
This is a quick post to share an idea and related resource. Year 8 is about to have a maths exam next week with multiple topics: Algebra and Equations, Fractions/Decimals/Percentages, Angles, Circles/Areas and Ratios. To make revision a bit more fun, I’m doing it as team work and relay style. The main objective is for […]
I started Equations with my year 8 maths. I love equations – probably why I love Algebra – and have decided to buck the textbook trend. Lesson Instead of teaching technique by technique, I decided to go with the big picture. And really, students in year 8 already know this big picture. I started the […]