"Maths is like ice cream, with more flavours than you can imagine - and if all your children ever do is textbook maths, that's like feeding them broccoli- flavoured ice cream." - Denise Gaskins  

It's difficult to complete everything in the year and then still make time for productive revision. Sigh. That sounds like more work.

Grade 11 Statistics builds largely on what was covered in Grade 10. This makes it so important to make sure the learners have a solid understanding of what they've done before. 

Tamlyn spoke about using tables to teach standard deviation, before teaching how to do it on a calculator. To be honest, I thought this was the normal way to teach it.

It's been a long year and it's quickly approaching the end. This is the last section to teach to the Grade 10s before going into revision.

Why do we avoid teaching this section? And when we teach it, why do we teach it like everything else? This section could be interesting, if we think out of out of the box.

It's coming to the end. It's almost school holidays and the Matrics are finishing off their prelims. We're tired and they're tried. But we can't lose stream now. 

We should have finished all teaching by now and be doing revision. This webinar focused on how to direct the revision to areas that needed it by doing an analysis of the prelim results.

We often get so lost in the teenage world we teach in that we lose sight of the professional nature of our career.

Some of us study further, but most of us rely on 'on the job' experience for professional development. Honestly, I think the last time I read any academic article/research paper was when I did my degree. But Craig appeals to the professional in each of us. 

This is now the fourth webinar we've done on Euclidean Geometry and with every person, I see a little more of how fun and interesting the section can be.


Dylan came out from behind the buttons to tell us about one of his favourite sections, Euclidean Geometry. It was quite obvious to see his passion.

I have struggled with this title a lot. How can you teach revision? Yes, you can teach topics, but in my mind, revision is a different process. And with the amount of work we need to cover in the Grade 12 year, it is surprising if we get more than 2 weeks to revise before the exams begin.

I was shocked to hear that Twanette has 4 weeks of revision planned with her class.

It's coming to the end of year madness. Matrics are almost finished and it feels like everyone else in the school wants to join in their silliness. We're tired, the learners are tired, and now we must teach an imaginative piece of content with excitement? 

If only it were easy. If only someone else could give us ideas...

Meaningful - That's the word that kept on coming up today. It is quite easy to teach the skills for this section but it's all pointless without meaningful data to work with.

For years we've recycled the same examples - favourite food at the tuckshop, methods of transport to school, etc, etc. The challenge is to do something different, something beyond the textbook.

Before I begin with the usual blog post, we need to apologise for the first 3,5 minutes of this recording. We had no sound until half way through our discussion about step 14 in Teach like a Champion. We have put in subtitles until the sound kicks in.

We were a little crazy, thinking we could talk about two sections in one hour. That's four weeks of work. Robyn and I covered a lot of ground, but I've also include links to other websites that could inspire you.