I’ve already blogged about the Most Important Key When Presenting with PowerPoint. The next most useful is the B key. Press the B key while presenting, and the screen goes black – your audience have nothing else to look at except you, and that means that you can get a hearing no matter how zappy [...]
It’s grim, it’s slow, everything’s badly designed and nothing really works properly: using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I wouldn’t change it for the world, because I’m an abject bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life. [...]
Download a JQZ file with 20 question MCQ on four functions, number words, and place notation.
Link to Web page that displays a random selection of 10 of the 20 questions.
There is a time limit of 20 minutes on the 10 questions just so my Numeracy students can get used to working against the clock. They [...]
Download a PDF version of a presentation on measurements with photos produced especially
Download a pdf with some group activities about measurement. This set of activities is designed to get people actually measuring and moving around the class. Along the way, they will confront skills such as recording data, making tables to show results, working with [...]
Download a one side handout with some estimation and BODMAS examples used for homework.
This one side homework was produced by copying and pasting from other worksheets I have written over the last few years. Definitely a 20 minute task. We use estimation questions as a way for students to show understanding of the sequence of [...]