I've decided to make the lesson plans, materials and such I write freely available under an Attribution, NonCommerical, ShareAlike license from Creative Commons.
The first lot of material I'm making available are the lesson plans for teaching Pythagoras' Theorem that I developed last semester (and wrote about using). If you're interested in teaching, mathematics, or teaching mathematics why not have a look at my free lesson plans.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Inclusive Education
I'm currently sitting in a lecture about inclusion and inclusive schooling. We're discussing a case-study about a primary school class and approaches that we might take to differentiating our curriculum and practice for students with disabilities. In particular we're considering a hypothetical student with Down Syndrome in a grade 5/6 class. We've had some interesting points raised including the inherent inclusivity of the Essential Learnings and the possible effects of differentiating the curriculum (will we be, in effect, "dumbing down" the curriculum?).
More later.
More later.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
LaTeX output for HsColour
On a somewhat related subject to my last post (the one about LaTeX), I've just started working on adding LaTeX support to hscolour. The structure of the program has made it easy to add support for LaTeX output: all I had to do is add two items to a pattern match (for option handling), and define a function to render the code to LaTeX (plus a few helpers to escape LaTeX special characters, etc. ).
Once I've managed to get it working adequately, I'll submit a darcs patch to the maintainer.
See also Malcolm's posts about hscolour: one and two.
Once I've managed to get it working adequately, I'll submit a darcs patch to the maintainer.
See also Malcolm's posts about hscolour: one and two.
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