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Teaching Year 10 with Laptops
(2) Comments | Posted in • Lesson Idea • Consumer Arithmetic • Congruence • Rates • Trigonometry • Software • Excel • GeoGebra • Technology • Digital Education Revolution • Laptops 4 Learning
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).
Bearing and airports
| Posted in • Lesson Idea • Bearings • Trigonometry • Software • Google Earth • What can you do with this?
As part of a unit on Trigonometry, we review compass and true bearings before working with bearings in Trigonometry problems.
To start this review lesson, we looked at some images from Google Earth.
A story for Trigonometry
A really easy way to create engagement when introducing a new topic is to explain some of it’s applications outside of the maths classroom. For Trigonometry, I use an explanation of how I used trigonometry in a previous career to find the height of trees.
