Google released their Parisian Love Story advert for the Superbowl earlier in the year – watch it, it’s ever so clever: You can now make you own stories with 7 simple search terms.  It couldn’t be easier, you just type in up to 7 search terms and then choose whether the video will show it as a [...]

Inspired by Simon Job, this is a post about how I surf the torrential tidal wave of information that is out there on the Internet, how I filter it down into a manageable stream to consume and how I save the best bits for later. I have been using Google Reader for the last 3 years or so [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

Like most teachers I have collected masses of resources over the years and created masses more.  Lots of my resources which I believe to be free of copyright are stored online and catalogued with the excellent www.delicious.com. As I’m sure most readers are aware Delicious.com is a great social bookmarking website.  It’s a place to [...]

I thought it time to share some of the resources that I use frequently and perhaps I take for granted.  1st up, nrich: nrich is a great UK website that is chock full of rich mathematical problems  suitable for pupils from 5-19. The website has a teacher or pupil view.  Following the link to the [...]