Lovely logic puzzles
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Category Archives: TickTock TV
Why did Assessment for Learning fail?
The Progression Of Addition and Subtraction
I don’t know about you, but as a secondary school teacher I’ve not often thought about teaching some of the maths fundamentals. We assume students can already add, subtract, multiply and divide single digit numbers. Secondary teachers don’t pay enough credit to primary teachers, who have the critical job of embedding concepts like place value.… Read More »
The Best Number
Can’t disagree with Sheldon here.
What is the point of maths?
I’ve made my first youtube video! I went to the Crytek offices to find out how they use maths to make incredibly complex videogames. Watch it below.
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
This is really cool. The graphs look like trig functions! Might be a way to introduce them.
Chris Moyles' Quiz Night
A while ago, Chris Moyles had a TV show called ‘Quiz Night’. Part of the program was a maths quiz, done by various pop acts (including, shudder, One Direction). A lot of these are available on YouTube, so I collected them all together to make a convenient playlist. Here it is I’ve used these a… Read More »