Maths games

Derek Robertson from LTScotland and
Consolarium appeared on tv last week extolling the virtues of games based learning.

Try out some of the games at Super Maths World which provide online interactive maths games and activities for all ages. Players engage in mathematical challenges against alien creatures where subject knowledge and fast mental arithmetic is critical to success. Activities are designed so that they cannot be beaten by guess work.

World Maths Day

Kirklandneuk earned a prize during World Maths Day which means that we can use the mathletics software free of charge until August.

Mathletics is a complete mathematics learning platform, including both the arithmetic game used in World Maths Day and interactive curriculum activities covering most topics and all year group levels.

Pupils can sign in using their World Maths Day usernames and passwords. See Mrs Ronnie if you have lost your password.

Free notebook and flipchart files to use on your whiteboard

Looking for a lesson to use on your smartboard? You can search and download at smarttech

If you aren’t sure how to use the smart notebook tools there are some short videos from Mgrid which introduces the smart notebook software.

If you download the activstudio flipchart viewer from Longfield you will then be able to search and download Promethean flipchart files from Prometheanplanet on the Dell laptops.

Interactive smartboards (2)

Even though some classes only have a projector and not a smartboard (you may have next session!) you might like to read

33 ways to use your interactive whiteboard, which has some good ideas.

A quick reference tool for using the floating tools toolbar on the smartboard can be found at http://www.lexington1.net/technology/instruct/technologyguide/survival%20guideinfo/smartboard/quick_reference_floatingtools.pdf

Lots of sites for using with a projector or smartboard for infants maths and language can be found at http://www.juliethompson.com/SMART.html