.htaccess snippets to optimize your website. All of the snippets below have to be pasted into your .htaccess file, which is located on the root of your Apache server. Waring: Always make sure you have a working backup before editing your .htaccess file! Force trailing slash Many clients of mine asked me for always having a trailing slash at the end of their urls. Looks like it’s great for SEO. The following snippet will alwyas add a trailing slash to your site urls. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /+[^\.]+$ RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L] </IfModule> Source: Prevent hotlinking Hotlinking (the act of using images from another site than yours) is unfortunely a common practice which can waste lots of your precious bandwidth.
Source: Redirect mobile devices If your site is not using responsive web design yet, it could be very useful to be able to redirect mobile device to a mobile-specific version of your website. SARA-Arithmetics. Mathematical Logic. Knights and Knaves 3: an outline solution to a simple word problem. Geogebra. Image by DavidErickson via Flickr There are some really great blogs out there written by maths teachers who really care about their practice. I enjoy reading their posts as they share their insight and ideas and think about how it could improve my own teaching.
There is wheat and there is chaff out there. To save you time in separating the two, I have compiled this list of the best blogs I have found so far: f(t) Written by the highly witty and entertaining Kate Nowak, I love this blog for lots of reasons. I find her blog a useful way of ‘keeping the big picture in mind’ rather than becoming obsessed with the details all the time. Keeping Math Simple One of the best blogs I have found discussing pedagogy in maths teaching.
“This blog isn’t about making math easy because it isn’t. There are regular blogs about using Geogebra effectively in teaching maths. Typical of the quality and thought provoking posts on this blog is “Teaching algebraic thinking without the x’s“. Math for Primates dy/dan. Numbers Machine. Root 2 - Numberphile Browse the Gizmo Collection. Mathematical Logic.