The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching has a range of simple Web pages that set up a problem in a context using GCSE level Maths.
Chance of false matches in DNA matching (genetic fingerprinting) is a useful leader for a lesson on combined probabilities – and directly useful to Forensic science students!
Mistaken DNA Identification has [...]
Sebastian Krauss provides MyMind 1.2 a small free outliner and mind mapping tool for the Mac OS X platform. Very simple and basic which actually makes it more useful than the all singing mind mappers around.
MyMind can export its map views as Web pages with a client side image map coded in. Site maps like [...]
“The formula for writing Essays is rather loose. It was invented by Michel Montaign in the sixteenth century. It was a variation on the sermon. A sermon is traditionally appended to an opening biblical text which it refers, or at least alludes to, the holiday when the sermon was delivered. It is a fantasy or [...]
The diagram above is re-drawn from Mike Ollerton’s book Getting the buggers to add up published by Continuum. Most of the issues he raises for engaging children and teenagers are alive and well for adults…
Take away aspects of ‘behaviour’ – less challenging anyway
Add in a big set of built in hangups and partial constructs about [...]
Gerry McGovern suggests (see Secrets of great Web headings )
Headings and titles less than 8 words, nearer 4
Summaries less than 30 words
Online research indicates most summaries coming in at 17 words with a low of 10 and a high of 25
Idea for lesson activity: take typical Intranet news item text and write a page title [...]