MathsClass

Things are tough at my school at the moment, tougher than normal. There are many reasons for that, this is not the post to discuss them though.

After 2 terms as a relieving Head Teacher, moving back to the normal classroom teacher load has been a bit of a shock. Even with faculty matters, I found myself achieving more of the extra things as a Head Teacher.

For Australian teachers with access to objects from The Le@rning Federation, the resource Bridge Builder is a nice way to deal with geometric patterns and finding the algebraic rule.

It’s that time of year again… that’s right… Year 8 solving equations.

Welcome to the new look MathsClass site.

Each year for the Term 3 SDD (Staff Development Day), the four schools (three 7-10 and one 11-12) in the collegiate I work in get together for a combined program.

In recent years, Sydney Water has been encouraging households to save water. “With limited and highly variable rainfall in the catchments, the community can no longer rely on water from the dams.” source

After the recent redesign of MathsKit, the next site I have redesigned, or really launched is MathsLinks.

The end of term series of posts are some of the most popular on this site.

For a while, I’ve been developing a new look for this site and working out how to better connect my maths sites.

This is a resource for skills in working with time.

I’ve been trying to increase my use of the laptops with Year 9.

In the NSW Mathematics Syllabus students are to learn about “rounding numbers to a specified number of significant figures” [NS5.2.1].

This is a fairly simple activity that allows for something different in the teaching of Pythagoras’ Theorem.

I think this is essential viewing for Mathematics teachers. I’ve been waiting for a meeting with my faculty to show them, which I got to do on Thursday.

Dan Meyer blogs at dy/dan, which you are already reading as a maths teacher… right?