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- Yoikes! – a classroom maths game
- Ideas for revision and exams for students
- Garden 2017
- Creative expressions of Depression
- Ideas for revision and exams for teachers
- Road to Aarhus and beyond
- Fun with Yangma
- Pat the Post meets Mack the Knife
- Flutterby – A Butterfly Detector App
- Rob Eastaway’s Dinner Table Problem
- Musical Analysis of Bird Song
- Creating a Wildlife Bed
- Weekly diary of my Wildlife Bed 2016
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- The Perfect Snowman
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Author Archives: Mr H
NOLO Beer Reviews
My new project for 2022 is to document the various no or low alcohol (NOLO) beers I drink as part of my attempt to keep weight down so I can perform as a reasonably good Masters athlete. I will record … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, beers, low alcohol, no alcohol, nolo, review, reviews
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Yoikes! – a classroom maths game
I first came across this game some thirty years ago when I was shown it by Stephen Froggatt a former maths teacher. The students need to have a set of ten boxes about a centimetre squared each with an eleventh … Continue reading
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Ideas for revision and exams for students
This is a distillation of my presentations in November 2016 to the Maths in Action days run by The Training Partnership in London and Warwick and to the Coopers Company and Coborn School in January 2017. A teacher version is here. KNOW WHAT … Continue reading
Garden 2017
Jan 10th The first flowers were showing around the garden but primroses and the various bulbs are still some way off. The impending snow will do little to encourage them on! Jan 3rd Last year’s project, the Pollinators’ Bed, is … Continue reading
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Creative expressions of Depression
I suffered a nervous breakdown in June 2015 and eighteen months later have not been able to return to teaching, a job that I love. I continue to struggle with both anxiety and low mood despite numerous changes of … Continue reading
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Ideas for revision and exams for teachers
This is a distillation of my presentations in November 2016 to the Maths in Action days run by The Training Partnership in London and Warwick. A student version is here. KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Topic guide – issue it, … Continue reading
Road to Aarhus and beyond
In nine months time from the time of writing (Nov 2016) I will have just finished competing in the triple jump at the European Masters Athletics Championships which next summer are being held in the town of Aarhus in Denmark. … Continue reading
Fun with Yangma
I was very pleased to discover recently that the shape formed from a net I like using for more advanced constructions has a proper name, a “Yangma”. I would normally require pupils to create the net using mathematical instruments then fold up … Continue reading
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Pat the Post meets Mack the Knife
Towards the end of February, I was much amused by a tweet from mathematician Rob Eastaway: A quick rummage on the keyboard confirmed his find and that actually the basic tunes were very similar. A quick moment in trusty old Sibelius helped … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Interweb et al, Music
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Flutterby – A Butterfly Detector App
As a lover of Lepidoptera there is nothing more exasperating than walking down a leafy lane with a group of friends and someone says, “Oh, what was that butterfly? It looked sort of purpley,” but by the time you have … Continue reading
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Tagged app, butterfly, conservation, Flutterby, identification
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