Great Posts

Don Steward has been killing it recently with directed number problems. I love these posts in particular:

• Directed Number Equations
• Signed Digit Notation

Also, here is a nice visualisation of basic calculus on A Recursive Process blog.

Great Posts of March

• Inquirist's Cookbook by Think Thank Thunk: Shawn's rough and ready guide to creating inquiry based learning.
• What value Khan? by Angles of Reflection: A look at why khanacademy is still useful and powerful (even though its a bit rubbish).
• Coding IS a super(edu)power by Gealgerobophysiculus: Another edu-blogger takes to coding to create the exact tools they need.
• Being an SBG teacher in a non-SBG world by Continuous Everywhere But Differentiable Nowhere.
• If you like learning, could I recommend analytics? by e-Literate: Great read which explains clearly why you cannot apply similar analytics systems in education as are applied in online shopping.
• Foil Prank by Yummy Math: Lovely little lesson about surface area.

Great Posts of February

To celebrate finally figuring out how to share my starred posts on Google Reader (see the new widget in the sidebar), and to make this feature more prominent, I will also describe some of my favourite writings each month. This one is for February up until now:

• Differentiating Maths Homework by I Speak Math:  A list of great links to posts from teachers describing their methods for differentiated homework.
• Visualizing Concepts by I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down: Some examples of how Mimi makes concepts more concrete by introducing them visually/kinaesthetically.
• Oscars 2013 by Yummy Math: Using the flawed 'top grossing movie of all time' stat to motivate learning compound interest.
• Two Tens for a Five by f(t): A well considered way to introduce irrational numbers.
• The First Relativistic Video Game by Starts With a Bang: Actually from ages ago, but this is amazing! An open-source video game which allows you to experience relativistic physics. Try it out!