Monday was a day at sea, with not much to do except lounge around in the sun. We retreated to one of the bars in the afternoon when it got too hot, and decided to attempt to play Set with playing cards.We tried playing with a full deck, then one suit removed, and making sets …
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As we spent the day driving to Manchester, then flying to Munich and finally on to Venice, then getting a coach to the port, then doing our lifeboat safety drill, I had very little time to spot any maths. However, I decided that the infinite mirrored lifts onboard our boat were definitely mathematical enough to …
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In case you’ve missed the hashtag #chineseschool on Twitter and the blogs popping up everywhere at the moment, the BBC aired the first programme in a new three-part series on Wednesday night. Titled “Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School”, the programme follows five Chinese teachers as they attempt to teach a group of British pupils using Chinese methodology.Out …
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I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago about the importance of trust, so I thought I’d follow that up today with another tip for NQTs. It’s something I need to keep working on myself, although I am getting better – last academic year, I hit the Autumn term exhaustion wall about three weeks before …
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I spent a bit of time playing catch-up with all the #summerblogchallenge posts I’d missed from everyone else today and spotted @DrBennison’s Twitter History post. I’ve seen a couple more Twitter Wordles recently, and quite liked this idea, so thought I’d have a play in today’s post. I love how big both #mathschat and #mathsTLP appear; …
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I mentioned a while ago that I was going to do a #summer10 post at some point; despite the fact that I’m two weeks into my holiday, I’ve pretty much been living and breathing wedding plans and celebrations for most of those, and I realised this morning that I still have nearly five weeks of holiday left, which is …
Another cheaty pre-written post today – as you’re reading this, I’ll be nowhere near a computer and celebrating my wedding in my in-laws back garden. This is a really personal post, and possibly completely irrelevant to anyone but me and about three other people, but I thought I’d share a few images of where I’m …
It’s only a model… Read More »
So right at the start of August I blogged about my #summer10, a list of ten things I wanted to achieve this summer holiday. As it’s the last day of August and I’ve got less than a week to finish all my jobs off, I thought I’d do a retrospective check and work out what I …
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I’ll admit to having to cheat a little bit on this challenge; this post is one of the few I had to write ahead of time and schedule to post later. I have a good excuse – I’m getting married today, and I imagine that, even though my fiance is very understanding about the amount …
Something old, something new… Read More »
At the most recent Maths Conference in London, I spent one session sitting at a table with three NQTs, and was asked by one of them what my “top tips” were for surviving their NQT year. For a bit of context, I’ve now been teaching for six years if you include my GTP year, which …
The importance of trust Read More »