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Saturday, September 22, 2012
Toys and tools for exploring the Parabola
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Following on from three ideas to introduce locus, here are three ideas I used to help make the locus of the parabola come alive for my stu...
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
How do you do that in GeoGebra?
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Looking back on my own high school mathematics education, I realise I never really knew what a parallelogram was. I never knew how it ...
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
Three teaching ideas for introducing locus
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Here's three ideas I use for introducing locus. 1. What makes these shapes? Have you ever looked down from an airplane window and see...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Moves in translation with Miss Anna Parabola
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Some concepts are so powerful in mathematics, they just keep popping in your course again and again - like old friends. Such an idea is th...
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Art photography in the maths classroom - thanks to flickr
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So much of the mathematics content we teach appears to many students to be fairly dry on the surface - we hope we bring them on the journey...
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
The monkey and the mathematician learn calculus
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"Even a monkey can differentiate" - that's how I described the rules based approach that seems to dominate so many students...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
The wisdom of Year 7 : thinking about groups
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It's been nearly a year now since I changed my classroom configuration from rows to groups : Overall I'm very pleased with t...
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