There are always groups of students that are difficult to reach.  Students that do not directly benefit from mathematics in the short term c...

Today I had a look at the expected standards "C grade descriptors". This document outlines the requirements of a C grade for a stu...

I have been teaching a low literacy class this year and it has taught me the perils of relying on the immersion technique to teach mathemati...

The actual project scheduling rule goes like this: "The first 90 percent of the task takes 10 percent of the time. The last 10 percent ...

I spent a fair bit of time thinking about absolute value problems in the form |x+a| - |x-b| = c. Many students were struggling with visualis...

An interesting question was posed to me today. How do I subtract two number manually when the answer is negative?? For instance, 3896 - 4321...

I sat through another round of someone extolling the benefits of rubrics/analytic marking keys/explicit marking keys. There was no doubt a l...

WACOT released the following figures about Perth teachers in their latest publication InClass , found here . • 38,125 Registered Teachers ...

One criticism of senior school and mathematics in general is the lack of consolidation of topics - especially when the course is prescribed ...

There's a poll on the right hand side asking how we found the new courses - are they better than the ones they replaced? For parents who...

Here's a basic outline of an Arkanoid clone, made by modifying the space invaders code of last week (it was done in a day!). Click here ...

Here's a little space invaders program that I wrote on the weekend. If it doesn't work the first time, maximise it and try again.. ...

Lockhart's Lament was recently /.'d and is a really good read about one person's thoughts of where mathematics has diverged fr...

Since starting teaching I've endeavoured to provide kids with just-in-time intervention. I'm not sure where the concept originated b...

Here is the first of (I imagine) many articles on the importance of teaching content in schools and the reemergence of the idea that develo...

Yesterday I was asked why run exams in year 8 & 9. I could think of 8 reasons: 1. To reduce fear of exams (students use the idea of exam...

Ok .. AP's and GP's are now a thing of the past (what?? huh?? when did that happen - in 8A of course!).. we're now onto applic...

Was caught today using one of my lessons from uni. It is about drawing histograms and the following data was used: score. f 1...... 2 2....

Sometimes I read past entries and think that perhaps I said that a bit strongly, and what is an opinion is stated a bit too much like fact. ...

A common catch cry in schools is that we need to improve literacy. Each year the same old rubbish is wheeled out in the guise of cross curr...