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My classroom
I really appreciate having my own classroom for many reasons, but one is the ability to place student work (the fun stuff) around the classroom.
Chocolate Bar Graphs
Some chocolate discussion starters for looking at bar graphs: a series of chocolate bar graphs.
Heat Sinks - Surface Area
I’m about to get into Surface Area with Year 8. Of course, there will be chocolate. But, since I last looked at Surface Area with Year 9 I’ve been thinking about Heat Sinks.
Perimeter of curved shapes
This week, Year 9 were looking at finding the perimeter of shapes that include curves (parts of a circle).
What’s in the fridge?
What else could you do with capacity? As I was getting a glass of juice to have with my breakfast, I was thinking that I could use this image as a quick question at the start of a lesson.
Digital Media - Capacity
With laptops rolling out shortly and projectors appearing in some classrooms, we should be thinking about collecting digital media for use as stimulus or investigation material. So, the other day when filling up my young daughter’s bottles, I took some pictures.
Million, billion, trillion
I used to think that I knew what 1 billion was, i.e. 1 000 000 000 000. Then a couple of years ago, I looked on Wikipedia and found there were two defintions: Long and short scales.
The Big Picture
If you don’t have The Big Picture from boston.com in your RSS feeds, it’s time to add it. Alan Taylor regularly collects some fascinating photos together. This edition, At work.

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