RSSMixhttp://www.rssmix.com/This feed was created by mixing existing feeds from various sources.en-gb http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2007/01/18/visit-to-knox/Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:54:56 -0600I went in to see the maths department at Knox today. It was interesting to see how confidence has grown in the use of the whiteboards, and gratifying to be able to answer some questions about the use of the boards.Rotation seems to lend itself particularly well to whiteboard work, based on what I saw [...]5fbe6759b81b5d21f8b622ac7368e34e http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2006/11/21/a-great-information-handling-site/Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:48:14 -0600I came across this today - the best high school level stats site I’ve seen:http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/8cf4791cf085a2a761cddef3b7f5cd83 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2006/11/15/higher-mulitiple-choice-flipchart/Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:41:19 -0600The word on the street is that multiple choice is coming back for higher. With this in mind, I’ve scanned 40 old (I mean very old) higher questions and put them into a flipchart as ACTIVote questions, with the right answer stored for each one. This could definitely be improved, but as [...]e911dfd480ff98ee94d228c5f687603a http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2006/11/09/the-beauty-of-maths/Thu, 9 Nov 2006 12:42:46 -0600It isn’t often that you come across a blog entitled “the beauty of mathematics” so I thought I’d share it 18c7178334de8224c09100d5e7a84952 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2006/11/08/visit-to-north-berwick/Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:07:46 -0600Today I visited North Berwick High School. I had a great day, but only managed to visit half the department. This was partly because I got caught up in Ski trip admin first thing - getting caught up in stuff is always a risk when you are out of classes in your own [...]18ba9905e1500f172553f5018309db71 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2006/11/04/friday-afternoon-at-ross/Sat, 4 Nov 2006 08:33:48 -0600This Friday, the maths teachers of East Lothian were guests of the Ross High School maths department. We were treated to a mouth-watering spread of home baking before we began the session - most appreciated, and I’d like to think that a precedent has been set!John from Promethean kicked off the afternoon with a session [...]e0a7aa4cf6ba6e6c49a4b8c567666a0c http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2006/11/01/our-first-learning-blog/Wed, 1 Nov 2006 07:15:34 -0600My wonderful S3 general maths class have begun blogging. Mhari volunteered to be scribe for yesterday’s lesson, and produced a great first post, on Prime Numbers. She has set the standard high! Her post does contain one little slip - I’m hoping that someone else in the class will spot it and mention [...]f9eb46b3732d2d58dcb9e9d366a7fcae http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2006/11/01/visit-to-dunbar/Wed, 1 Nov 2006 06:40:39 -0600I popped into Dunbar this morning - and had the good fortune to walk into Wendy’s birthday party.We discussed the use of blogs in education, and despite my confusing explanation Mags has decided to start a learning blog with one of her classes. Douggie also expressed interest in doing so. I’m delighted about [...]e5d40dfd6db789e19e45fab5b78563e4 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2006/10/27/logical-implication/Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:25:44 -0500I was trying to explain to my advanced higher class why F=>T and F=>F both come out true. I came across this Web site, that explains it quite nicely in terms of a promise.dcd468cb9c4cc1eefb282ce51a981e02 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/jonesieboy/2006/10/25/so-whats-so-special-about-blogs/Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:09:07 -0500In reply to my last post, Robin Strain asked “Can you persuade me the advantages of blogging?” Great question Robin - I think it deserves a fresh post 6 months ago I would have asked exactly the same question. I am involved with an online community of educators and technologists who seek to [...]ab55c5b1349e65b90d8256caea0e1557