Fraction and percentage equivalence using ratio tables
It seems that two years of shameless use of ratio tables have finally paid off;…
LOTW 10/05/15 Comparing and ordering fractions and decimals
In the spirit of encouraging personal positive thinking, I've decided to start a new Sunday…
Pick of Twitter 02/05/15
As I was away in London last weekend visiting a friend and completely not thinking…
Pick of Twitter 18/04/15
@missradders ~ Link to a blog post from Disappointed Idealist about the issues with SATs resits; a very…
How I teach trigonometry in right-angled triangles
I've been teaching trigonometry from scratch with Year 10 this week, so thought it would…
PIck of Twitter 11/04/15
Only a few goodies this week, mostly because I've been neglecting Twitter in favour of…
How Big is Infinity (or how I learned to stop worrying and love set theory)
I'm currently a few chapters into Tony Crilly's book "How Big is Infinity"; I picked this…
Pick of Twitter 04/04/2015
Got a whole fortnight's worth of stuff to fit into this post as Easter holidays…
Teaching rounding
1. Crack place value firstThis might seem like a no-brainer, but teaching rounding on top…
xkcd Percentages comics
Following my trawl through the xkcd archives to find my favourite comics for A Level, I thought I…