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Universcale

Tuesday, 26 May 2009 ·

Depending on what they’ve previously experienced, students struggle with the immense scale of the universe (mind you, so do I).

Isometric Drawing

Saturday, 23 May 2009 ·

When starting “Volume” with Year 8, we start by looking at cubic units and isometric drawings. This year, with an interactive whiteboard (although, these resources are also suited for use with just a projector or in a computer lab), I was able to use a couple of excellent online resources.

Drawing Mathematically

Saturday, 16 May 2009 ·

Are you drawing mathematical diagrams in Microsoft Word? You might even be achieving success doing this; once you’ve worked out how to wrangle Microsoft apps to do what you want, they can be powerful. But, for drawing mathematical diagrams there are better options.

FX Draw by Efofex is the application for drawing static diagrams for inclusion in worksheets, assessment tasks etc. The one down-side of this software is that there is no Mac version. (The rest of the Efofex MathPack is worth the money as well)

The Perfect Tree

Tuesday, 12 May 2009 ·

I was preparing for part of a presentation to the staff at my school tomorrow, highlighting the importance of numeracy being included in all subject areas.

Preparing for Laptops 4 Learning

Sunday, 10 May 2009 ·

Term 3 will see the roll-out of netbooks to Year 9 at my school (some photos of the Lenovo S10e).

I’ve been thinking about how to prepare for this roll-out in my own teaching.

Transformations

Saturday, 02 May 2009 ·

screenshot of PowerPoint fileHere’s a PowerPoint file I made to quickly review transformations before getting into congruency.

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Simon Job — eleventh year of teaching maths in a public high school in Western Sydney, Australia.
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