All entries for October 2010

Microteaching lesson Plan

Here is the updated plan. If you think anything needs changing then let me know.

plans_and_elevations.docx

: 06 Oct 2010 22:26 |  Tags: Elevation Plan |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Differentiation Task

As a group we created a task to enable students to discover the rules of differentiating polynomials.  To make it more interesting and so that they would remember it we wanted them to conjecture the rules themselves.

an_investigation_into_the_gradients_of_curves.docx

: 05 Oct 2010 21:21 |  Tags: Differentiation |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Helicopter task

We made lots of helicopters and dropped them off the balcony. Here is the spreadsheet of our results.

helicopter.xlsx

: 05 Oct 2010 21:14 |  Tags: Statistics |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Partial Fractions

Writing about web page /briancuttell/entry/partial_fraction_lesson/

Writing about an entry you don't have permission to view

Sooooo, here is the link to our attempt at writing the beginnings of a lesson plan on the very exciting topic of decomposing partial fractions.

: 03 Oct 2010 17:01 |  Tags: Fraction Lesson Partial Plan |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Maths Joke

Writing about web page http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html

Q: What is the difference between a Ph.D. in mathematics and a large pizza?
A: A large pizza can feed a family of four..

(Just for you div!)

: 03 Oct 2010 16:59 |  Tags: Joke |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem