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Augmented Reality Maths – Your Ideas Please

November 17, 2009 By MrStucke 7 Comments

I attended a SSAT training day today about ensuring Maths progress for all. This included a 30 minute section about using IT within Maths. During this Paul Hynes from the SSAT demonstrated an augmented reality program that the Trust are currently working on.

For those new to the term Augmented Reality it involves overlaying virtual images on top of a live video stream. Some of the first examples are on the iPhone and the PS3.

Here is an iPhone example called Nearest Tube, directions to the nearest London Tube stop are overlayed onto the image from the phone’s camera:

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Filed Under: EdTech, Maths, Tools Tagged With: AR, Augmented Reality, iPhone, math, mathematics, Maths, playstation, PS3, SSAT, Technology

TeachMeet North West – My Presentation

October 1, 2009 By MrStucke Leave a Comment

I’m doing a quick presentation at Teach Meet North West tomorrow night in Manchester.

If you haven’t been to a Teachmeet before it’s an ‘unconference’ where enthusaistic teachers get together to share ideas, usually with an E-Learning theme.

I’m doing a 2 minute nano-presentation on Google Forms, based on my interview / blog post from earlier in the year.

Here’s the presentation.

Hopefully I’ll see some of you there

Filed Under: Classroom, EdTech, ELearning, Maths Tagged With: Classroom, education, Google Doc, Google Spreadsheet, math, mathematics, Maths, TeachMeet, TeachMeetNw, Web2.0

BrainPOP Maths Videos

September 27, 2009 By MrStucke 3 Comments

First up a disclaimer: The lovely people at BrainPop UK offered me & my school a free 3 month subscription to their site in return for a post on their new Maths videos, this is said post.

With that out of the way, what’s BrainPop? The website has videos for many subjects, all starring Tim and his beeping robot friend Moby. Subjects covered include: Science, English, Maths, Humanities, Arts, PSHE, Citizenship & Design & Technology.

Tim & Moby can probably explain it better than me, head over to there introductory video here.

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Filed Under: Classroom, EdTech, Maths, Tools Tagged With: brainpop, Classroom, education, ICT, IWB, math, mathematics, Maths, mymaths, online, Resources, video

cre8ate maths

August 20, 2009 By MrStucke Leave a Comment

Cre8ate maths is a fantastic set of rich mathematical activities developed by the Centre for Science Education (CSE) with the mathematics lead from the Mathematics Education Centre (MEC), of Sheffield Hallam University. They have been created to support schools in Yorkshire & Humberside, and are focussed on the 12 priority industry sectors of the area. Activities are based around the chemical industry, food production, childcare and many others.

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Filed Under: Maths Tagged With: math, mathematics, Maths, Resources, rich tasks, teaching

Mapping Data on Google Maps

May 28, 2009 By MrStucke Leave a Comment

I’ve been playing around with two tools for mapping data onto Google Maps. They both have potential in and out of the classroom.

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Filed Under: EdTech, Maths, Tools Tagged With: Data, Google Doc, Google Spreadsheet, MapAList, mapping, maps, Maths, SpatialKey, visualising