Musical Spearman’s Rank
Posted: November 13, 2011 Filed under: GCSE | Tags: education, gcse, KS4, Lesson Idea, math, maths, Spearman's Rank, statistics, teaching 4 Comments »Thought I’d blog about the lesson I use to teach Spearman’s Rank after a bit of interest on Twitter. I’m about to use this lesson with top set Y11 who are studying for GCSE Higher Statistics. The basis of the lesson is to see how well pupil’s musical taste is correlated with the Great British Public’s taste and this is how it goes…
Composite Functions
Posted: November 9, 2011 Filed under: A-Level | Tags: alevel, C3, Compositefunction, function, ks5, maths, RISP Leave a comment »I love using Johnny Griffith’s Rich Starting Points with A-Level groups; they are self differentiating by outcome and any KS5 student can get something out of getting their teeth into them.
Classroom Layout
Posted: November 9, 2011 Filed under: AFL, NLP | Tags: AFL, Classroom, NLP Leave a comment »During our INSET recently we were given some AFL training. The first part focused on the layout of classrooms and how pupils interpret this.
Standard Form and the Planets
Posted: November 8, 2011 Filed under: KS3, Uncategorized | Tags: display, KS3, project, scale drawing, standard form 4 Comments »I’ve put together an idea for a project to use with 9A focusing on the solar system. We’ve recently covered Standard Form and I wanted pupils to have the opportunity to work as a team on a project which would give them the opportunity to pull together lots of different Maths skills.
