November 10, 2017
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Comments Off on Writing in Role
Choose an everyday object from around you (e.g. a chair, a pen, the tv…). Use the drama convention Visualisation to explore what it would be like to be that object. If it could hear, what would it hear? If it could see, what would it see? If it could feel, what would it feel? Write […] Continue reading
November 10, 2017
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Comments Off on Using Photography in Teaching
Digital photography can be a useful tool and activity in the primary classroom. Almost everyone uses it, often without any formal teaching. Produce an illustrated guidance poster, video or hand-out for primary teachers and or pupils in the use of this medium. Consider aspects such as image quality, subject matter, composition, inclusion, accessibility, potential health and […] Continue reading
November 10, 2017
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Comments Off on Music and Storytelling
Choose a well-known children’s story and dramatise this, using musical motifs, sound effect, character songs and instrumental music to accompany the drama/narrative. This can take the form of a stage production or a radio version of the story. We choose the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and dramatise this into a radio version. To […] Continue reading
November 10, 2017
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Comments Off on Learning from Packaging
Collect and photograph a range of packaging such as boxes, packets and tins from your kitchen or shopping. Flatten out some of the boxes when they are empty. Make notes on the different designs, colours and letters used by the designer and reflect upon these choices and the messages they give out. Compare two different examples […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Gambling- More than Just ‘Luck’?
Gambling has never been something that has appealed to me or that I’ve taken time to consider. To me, it has always just seemed like you’re pretty much snookered and are just going to lose money most of the time, unless you’re lucky. I have, however, considered the idea of chance and probability which wasn’t […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths in Music
As someone who does not consider themselves musical, I hadn’t really put much thought into how maths is needed in music. I love listening to music and find it a great way to relieve stress whilst belting out a song! However, I studied music in school and absolutely hated it. I would dread walking into […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths causes major happiness!
There’s a link between music, maths and our emotions. How can this be and why do major chords in songs make us happy? This is what I am going to explore in this blog post! The links between maths and music: beats (the value of each note) timings rhythm string numbers if you are changing […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths in Medicine
I have always known that there must be some level of mathematics behind medicine and health care, however, I did not realise just quite how important it is in the world of medicine. As the daughter of a nurse, friends of medical students and someone who considered nursing as a career, I have a basic […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Being Born Lucky
Our maths input today was on data and statistics. It was mainly based on health care and hospital statistics, but our lecturer (Dr Ellie Hothersall, from the university’s medical school), also brought up the topic of University attainment in terms of students from the least deprived areas of Scotland, typically being the ones to attend University. She gave her […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Type 1 diabetes, maths and me
Maths is my life. And no, this isn’t me saying that I love maths, sitting myself down to do Pythagoras equations or algebra every day. What I really mean by this is: Type 1 diabetes. Rewind back exactly three years. After weeks of a vigorous cycle of drinking>peeing> constant sleeping and in the end, fainting, I finally went to see my GP to get blood taken to find out what […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths in Sport Workshop
During the Maths in Sport workshop, we looked at the factors that make up a football league table. Our task was to redesign the league table from 1888/89 to match a modern day premier league table. Both tables featured the results from the 132 matches played, the wins, draws, losses, goals for, goals against and […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths and Art
There are many aspects of art which relate to maths and this was explained in an input from Anna Robb. The part which captured my interest straight away was how Fibonacci affects so many different things in nature and other places. I taught the Fibonacci sequence at my school placement in first year when we were […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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As preparation for our Maths in Sport input, we were asked to consider the mathematics used in a certain sport. I chose field hockey as I played it for several years when I was younger. I had never really considered that maths would have a part to play in field hockey and simply just thought […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Discovering Maths in Sport
Discovering Maths in Sport As part of my journey in discovering mathematics, I have become aware of the fact that maths really is everywhere. So far, we have touched on maths in art, stories, music, computing, gambling and sport. In particular I’ve enjoyed looking at these aspects from a very open perspective, questioning the mathematical […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Teaching math
After the input about Intriguing maths I decided to consider the theory behind teaching of math. During the input, we explored Boalers research into the teaching of mathematics within two different settings. Within the first setting the children were taught with the traditional set methods and procedures much like that of the 5-14 curriculum where […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Mathematics in Sport
When I was younger, I tried my hand at near enough every sport which was on offer. I did swimming, netball, hockey, lacrosse, basketball, enjoy-a-ball, golf and ballroom and line dancing. I started most of these when I was in primary school, however, I did carry a few of them through to high school. Unfortunately, […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths Anxiety
Throughout my school life I had always just accepted that I was more talented in the area of languages than I was in maths. It wasn’t that I couldn’t do maths, it was simply that I felt more confident and comfortable in other school subjects. The above is one of the reasons why I jumped […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths Anxiety
Mathematics is something I have always felt very confident with throughout primary school. This confidence continued with me to high school however as the maths became harder and harder, I found myself struggling and starting to doubt my abilities. When exams started approaching, the focus was on trying to learn all of the different formulas […] Continue reading
November 7, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths In Sport
When I first heard we were going to be having lecture on maths in sport, I was extremely confused as I couldn’t think of a link between the two subjects. However, after some research yesterday, and todays input, I have been made aware of the links between these subjects and discovered how the fundamentals of […] Continue reading
November 7, 2017
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Comments Off on Music and Mathematics – Where is the link?
Music was never a subject which I took particular interest in during school. This was probably because I felt that you had to be able to play an instrument to a high standard to be successful in the subject, a skill which I had not yet mastered. My musical talents stretch as far as being […] Continue reading
