Algebra Meltdown Game Goals In this maths game you have been recruited by Lissaman Industries to assist in one of their super-secret, ultra-dangerous research projects. As the new controller of the mighty Nuclear Generator, your job is to serve scientists waiting at the Generator's outlets. Each scientist needs a certain atom, which you create by solving linear equations and then guiding 'raw' atoms through the Generator's maze of machines and tubes. Be quick: the scientists are impatient to continue their work. The ultimate aim of the project is to construct a monstrous mega-machine known only as 'The Device'. How To Play Algebra Meltdown's action takes place across multiple level or 'shifts', each featuring a unique Nuclear Generator layout. Across the top of the screen is a rack dispensing 'raw atoms' between values -9 and +9 (B). If an atom passes through a machine, a nuclear reaction takes place and it's transformed by the operation shown (D). Game Controls Change switch boxes by clicking on them. Add
Romans - The Roman Army About David Mitchell About David Mitchell David is a Google Certified Teacher and is currently Deputy Head Teacher at Heathfield Primary School in Bolton. he is known to most people as @DeputyMitchell as Twitter is where he spend much of his time if I’m not in school or not on blogs! David introduced blogging to Heathfield Primary School in December 2009 and in this time both Heathfield and David have seen interest from media but more importantly other schools who are looking for a new tool to engage their learners. Heathfield Primary recently featured live on BBC1, you can watch the footage below: David’s enthusiasm to let blogging evolve in school and allow the pupils the opportunity to develop their use of blogs keeps on making national headlines. David Mitchell the InnovatorIndependent Newspaper ArticleDavid’s innovative Projects: Feb29th.net and QuadBlogging in the TESTES Article: Maths – Blogging BrilliantTES Article – Those that can Tweet! However, David believes that this is still just the beginning!
Functional Skills A Username and Password are required to view the page requested. Please type your Username and Password then press Login. Passwords should be lower-case characters and numerals only, ie abc123. NB By entering your username and password above, you agree to SQA's Terms of Use. Terms of use Login details for SQA's secure website are only issued to the Co-ordinator of each centre. Problems logging in? If you are redirected to SQA's home page after logging in, please return to this login page and refresh (Control f5) then re-enter your credentials. XtraMath Romans in Britain - Roman recipes of the upper classes blog.mrstacey.org.uk » Blog Archive » 50 question challenge I’ve been playing around with some of the opportunities for collaborate learning through Google Docs. I created this revision lesson for Yr 12 to fulfil several criteria. Firstly I wanted a student led overview lesson. Secondly I wanted that lesson to give me some feedback on areas of misunderstanding. Ahead of the lesson I created a Google Doc with 50 questions. In the lesson we logged in to two netbooks and opened up the Google Doc. Students had the hour to work together to answer as many questions as they could. Evaluation It worked well, generally students were focussed, plus it did marvels for their teamwork and problem solving skills. Variations If you don’t have Google Docs you could use any collaborative plaform – a wiki or a service such as primarypad
Budgeting Budgeting means managing your spending so it is not more than your income. So, if you have £200 of income a week you should try not to spend more than £200. Before looking at your own budget try this one for fun. Mr & Mrs Smith's budget Mr and Ms Smith have one child of school age and a weekly income of £200. Which of the following items would they need to budget for? Think about which items are most important. Activity: Drag 8 of the 10 items you feel are most important from the left to a free slot on the right. Personal budget Activity: Now type in your own details: You can add your own headings next to 'other1' etc on the 'income' column and also name your own headings under the 'outgoings' column To draw up a more detailed budget for yourself try our Budgeter in the Workshops section. Activity: Things that I need – things that I want Everybody needs a roof over their head as well as food and clothes. So what do you need? You should try and avoid juggling payments.
Radical Math cell phone project Project K-Nect is designed to create a supplemental resource for secondary at-risk students to focus on increasing their math skills through a common and popular technology – mobile smartphones. Ninth graders in several public schools in the State of North Carolina received smartphones to access supplemental math content aligned with their teachers’ lesson plans and course objectives. Students communicate and collaborate with each other and access tutors outside of the school day to help them master math skills and knowledge. The smartphones and service are free of charge to the students and their schools due to a grant provided by Qualcomm, as part of its Wireless Reach™ initiative.
History of Fractions Did you know that fractions as we use them today didn't exist in Europe until the 17th century? In fact, at first, fractions weren't even thought of as numbers in their own right at all, just a way of comparing whole numbers with each other. Who first used fractions? The word fraction actually comes from the Latin "fractio" which means to break. From as early as 1800 BC, the Egyptians were writing fractions. Here is an example of how the numbers were made up: Could you write down in hieroglyphics? The Egyptians wrote all their fractions using what we call unit fractions. Here is one fifth. Can you work out how to write one sixteenth? They expressed other fractions as the sum of unit fractions, but they weren't allowed to repeat a unit fraction in this addition. But this is not: The huge disadvantage of the Egyptian system for representing fractions is that it is very difficult to do any calculations. In Ancient Rome, fractions were only written using words to describe part of the whole.