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Teaching abstraction in maths

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Claire Lotriet

When it comes to reasoning in maths, quite often (assuming they’ve got the arithmetic and calculations bit nailed) what the questions are testing is how […]

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The three types of mistake and how to use them in the classroom

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Claire Lotriet

When a child makes a mistake in my maths class, my typical response has usually been something along the lines of, “can you spot where you […]

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Developing language in maths

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Claire Lotriet

Whether or not you pay much attention to Bloom’s Taxonomy and the like, teaching children how to explain their thinking/working/methods etc in maths is key. […]

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Getting physical: computing at Raspberry Pi Towers

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Claire Lotriet

I was lucky enough to be one of 20-odd educators to be selected to take part in the first ever Raspberry PiCademy that took place last […]

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Year of Code gets a bashing – so now what?

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Claire Lotriet

Forget the year of the horse, the government have announced that 2014 is the Year of Code, but this latest initiative has come under much criticism. Unsurprisingly, […]

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A is for Algorithm: the A-word in three steps

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Claire Lotriet

When I first took a look at the new computing programme of study I was a tad worried. Mainly because ‘algorithm’ was the first word […]

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