In the 21st century, it is vital that students learn to be innovative, develop logical reasoning and develop resilience and persistence to solve problems. Problem-solving…
Category: Maths
Teach 3D mathematical shapes through oragami, Apply Mathematics in real life situations: Explore Mahigon
Posted in Fractions, Maths, and Shape and Space
Mathigon is an excellent interactive website to explore maths. It has some fantastic resources. The ebook is amazing!!!!!!! The resources are all interactive, professionally presented…
Scratch: Mitchell’s Post
Posted in Classroom, Creating, General, Literacy, Problem Solving, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
Today’s post has been written by my son Mitchell, who discovered scratch and then created his own game. Hi Everyone, My name is Mitchell, for my…
Wideo: Make online animated videos
Posted in Classroom, General, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
Hi everyone, I was looking this morning and found this web based animated video creation site. I have been playing with the tool and created…
Ideas for using Lego in the classroom for literacy and maths
Posted in Classroom, Fractions, Literacy, Maths, Measurment, Number, Problem Solving, Reading, Speaking and Listening, and Writing
With the much-anticipated launch of the Lego movie on the weekend, I thought how exciting it would be to use Lego and ICT for learning…
I have had a request from a wonderful friend who teaches numeracy to find and create some blog posts on resources to teach fractions. There…
Reinventing maths instruction using technology
Posted in Maths, Thoughts, and Uncategorized
This is a great you tube video by ISTE (international Society for technology education). It was part of their 2013 conference. This video is quite…
Scribble maps
Posted in Classroom, Geography, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, and Maths
The website scribblemaps is fantastic. It allows you to access any Google map and then add icons, lines, shapes, information onto the map. These maps can…
Websites for 3D shapes
Posted in Classroom, Maths, and Shape and Space
Todays post follows on from the last two posts but this time focusing on 3D shapes http://www.starrmatica.com/standalone/starrMatica3DEarthExploration.swf – I used this is on the whiteboard as…
Websites for teaching and learning 2D shapes.
Posted in Maths, and Shape and Space
There is a plethora of websites which contain interactive shape games. These games act as a reinforcement and consolidation of skills. I have listed a…
Fruit Shoot: Maths Games
Posted in Chance and Data, Classroom, Maths, Measurment, Number, and Shape and Space
A friend of mine recently told me about this site, which is chock full of interactive maths games. The games are in a shoot them…
animated-gifs.org Todays post is on interactive websites which have activities and games for children to practice their skills in identifying numbers which are greater than…
Sploder: Game Creation
Posted in Classroom, Creating, Featured, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Problem Solving, Speaking and Listening, Web 2.0 tools, and Writing
http://www.sploder.com/ Following on from yesterdays post about the benefits of game creation for learning, here is another great website. This is another website…
Cartoon network: Create your own Game
Posted in Chance and Data, Classroom, Creating, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Problem Solving, Speaking and Listening, Web 2.0 tools, and Writing
This website allows the children to plan and create their own game based on star wars the clone wars. It is fairly easy to navigate…
Quiz Busters
Posted in Classroom, General, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Reading, and Teacher Resources
http://www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/quiz-busters/ This site allows you to create and then play with your own quiz or it allows you to use one of the quiz’s that…