Archive for October, 2006

Learning about math learning

The Univeristy of California at San Diego has developed interesting teacher preparation courses called "Teaching Math: The Challenge" and "Teaching Science: The Challenge".

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Abe’s education push

Abe Shinzo, the new prime minister of Japan, has continued Koizumi's weekly email magazine. This week, Abe talks about education reform.

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CYBERCHASE - interactive math activities for kids

CYBERCHASE is an animated TV show with an associated interactive website and it promotes mathematics learning.

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Listening to Learner Voice

Futurelab has an interesting article about Learner Voice, that advocates an organised and institutionalised requirement to listen to learners.

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Ubud, Bali - an enjoyable respite

It was good to get away to Ubud in Bali for a few days.

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Escaping the haze

It's starting to feel like 1997, the first year we were in Singapore.

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More crazy non-standard standards - power plugs

Why do we have so many incompatible power plugs? I'm all for standard plugs, voltages and so on, just like weights and measures should be standardized on the metric system.

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The history of money

The history of wealth creation is quite fascinating. What is money, anyway?

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The maths of music

I have always been interested in the close connection between math and music.

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Rapper loves math

Lloyd Banks says: "I wanted to know how to count my money, so I love math."

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