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The answers is yes.
They did say that.
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Why not let a ninja help middle years students learn about angles?
While students negotiate a myriad of sticky situations it is their understanding of angles that saves them.
Check it out right here.
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My Year 9 mathematics students have been learning about money. We have covered aspects of taxation, simple interest, compound interest and considered that latest executive bonus payments issue in Australia.
In order to see the implications of investing wisely we were refreshed with this lemonade stand. This lemonade task met the working mathematically outcome of students using a “guess and refine strategy when investigating unfamiliar problems” (NS5.2.2). This work links with the work that students study in Commerce.
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Next week my Year 12 General Mathematics students will be sitting their half yearly examination.
I have started a wiki where students can post their ideas on how to best prepare for the task.
Screen shot of a wiki
The benefit of a wiki is that the students can collaborate to create a useful resource.
If you aren’t familiar with wikis then hover over this link and press play.
I am officially a loser.
I danced in a night club on Second Life (SL).
So there may be some educational implications to this but right now I just feel dirty.
On a postive note, I am going to attend a conference called, RezEd’s first Seasonal Meetup.
It is going to be run by the guys at http://www.rezed.org/ and this is the blurb.
For our first virtual meet up, we are going to discuss a very hot topic: “Educational implications of mixed-age versus age-segregated virtual worlds.” There are going to be three speakers and there’ll be time for Q&A and discussion.
I’m wanting to learn something good from the professionals.
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Imagine a number line site that could help students to learn.
Imagine no longer and visit this special place.
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Vex spending time with his thoughts
So my Year 9 Mathematics students are going to be enjoying a value packed lesson of gathering tree information on our Second Life (SL) island and then analysing the data using Microsoft Excel.
We are currently learning about statistics and I know that adding SL into the mix will make things interesting.
Let’s see how it goes.
There are many educational opportunities in SL.
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Now it’s time to be free from the shackles of pain-staking manual box and whisker plot construction.
Take a short moment to visit this site where a portion of your box and whisker plot dreams will come true.
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You want to start a maths lesson with something interesting and engaging so that students are glad they have arrived in your class.
I really like using the Transum starter of the day.
The processes of questioning, applying strategies, communicating, reasoning and reflecting are present in most of the questions.
The reason I like these processes is that they are the main ingredients of ‘working mathematically’.
My favourite question so far has been this dancing one.
