Blogging for Numeracy Students

This Blog was written for Numeracy Tutors or anyone else who is thinking of using Blogs to support students. It will show how Blogging was used in practice in Clydebank College to support Numeracy, Maths and Access to Nursing Students. I also use the site to experiment. The Disclaimer bit - Any views expressed in here are purely my own.

Monday, June 06, 2011

Dyscalculia - Discussion on BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9498000/9498587.stm Worth a listen. Brian Butterworth states that the curriculum in schools is s...

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Dyscalculium

Dyscalculium is an on-line screening tool for Dyscalculia for adults. I asked for more details on prices (see below). In college I meet stu...

Sunday, October 17, 2010

New Core Skills Bulletin

This refers to the new Numeracy Exemplar Assessment ideas now available on SQA Secure. Here is a quick link to the bulletin .

Friday, April 09, 2010

April Fool's Joke

On 1 April I played a joke on my Int 2 Maths class which went down a treat. I made up an official looking letter which accompanied the 1979 ...

Sunday, March 07, 2010

New HMIE Report

On Saturday (yes Saturday!!) I attended the Scottish Mathematics Council Conference in Stirling Uni. What a packed conference! The Keynote S...

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Wordpress v Blogger

After using Blogger for years I have started to use Wordpress for any new blogs. Each has a place. In Blogger I can change font size and twe...

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Web 2.0

Saturday, September 12, 2009

My Blogs Update

At the moment I have 3 teaching blogs which are 'live'. Numeracy Level 5 for IT students new Maths Analysis 1 for NC Engineers re-b...

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