Attempts to upgrade to WordPress 2.8.1 led to me not being able to log into the admin pages. The database tables updated OK, but my passwords were not recognised and attempts to reset the admin password using the MySQL database manager application failed. I’m not alone, although some people appear to be authenticating OK but [...]
Download one side on foreign currency conversion. It explains converting from Sterling to foreign currency and back again, and has a few questions of each kind. The worksheet assumes that students will use calculators.
I was searching for Web pages with simple explanations of the topics in the Number unit of an access maths module so [...]
Nice photos from NASA in the Boston Globe with captions.
Moondust by Andrew Smith is worth reading, despite the review, because its the only account of the thoughts and reflections of those who walked on the Moon that is easily available. The author felt a need to put Project Apollo into the context of his life [...]
Twitter includes a 140 character limit on each twit. Sounds like an ideal constraint to me. Challenge to students: summarise today’s lesson in one twit. Provide a copy of the blank above to each student…
Paul Constant has written a review of twitter as a series of twitter posts (via daringfireball.net). Now, what I want to [...]
Image detail taken from a scan of a notebook opening on Kyle Gann’s Post Classic blog.
I’m just beginning to replan my teaching of fractions… I’ll have to get some simple music examples in there somewhere.