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Teaching Year 10 with Laptops

Sunday, 07 February 2010
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In 2009, Year 9 got their DER netbooks and now they are in Year 10. This year’s Year 9 does not have their netbooks yet, and so this gives teachers a little time to get their heads around the inclusion of netbooks into the classroom. This year, I’m teaching a 5.2 pathway Year 10 class (and a Year 9 5.2 class).

World’s Fastest Clapper

Saturday, 01 August 2009
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Here’s a quirky little activity that uses the DER laptops.

Heart Rate Activity

Saturday, 19 May 2007
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An outdoors activity is always a welcome change to a maths lesson.  To introduce rates, I take the class outdoors to measure their heart rate.