Archive for 2005

The nice thing about…

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Some links on learning theory

Scales on Bass

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Silly picture for the bank holiday with link to Chicago based design company doing magazine layouts on Web pages

MS Excel dynamic graphs

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Use the ‘forms’ toolbar in MS Excel to link a slider control with a cell. Then you can make ‘dynamic graphs’. Projected onto a screen, you can ask students to predict what the result of a change is going to be.

MS Excel simulation

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

Download a spreadsheet that simulates breeding 60 fruit flies
The spreadsheet simulates the results of breeding fruit flies (F2 Generation – Second Filial?) where the expected outcome is a simple 1:3 Mendelian ratio of vestigial winged flies to winged flies
The screen shot above shows an anomalous result – a chi-squared statistic well above 3.84, the critical [...]

TGIF

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Nice clipart GIF of TGIF spelt out in child’s blocks