Today was my first day as Head of Department of our high school.  Six years and a fair bit of work has resulted in a position where I can mo...

I was chosen ("volunteered") to work with students transitioning from year 7 to year 8 this year and needed a hands on lesson to p...

Over the last five years there has been a change in resourcing mathematics.  Once the domain of the textbook and worksheet, increasingly mat...

I had the pleasure of being involved in an interview panel for the first time and realised that interviews in the dept. had much to do with ...

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

"Low ability" students have always been a bit of an enigma to me.  I put them in quotes, as many times they are not actually low a...

Last time I looked at iBooks Author it was a big load of useless.  No equation editor and only worked on an iPad.  It couldn't be used f...

I don't know if anyone noticed but the October 23, 2012 update of iBooks Author included a latex/mathml editor. Good News!