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The PiFactory blog is the musings of a radical math teacher who is developing ideas and resources aimed at promoting assessment for learning in the math classroom + the use of technology in the math classroom.

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The elephant in the classroom

Nov 28, 2009
Buy this Mathematicians have Great Powers PiFactory tee-shirt JO BOALER’s research into what works and what doesn’t inside a math classroom has gone a lot further than just watching, literally, hundreds of math classes. She has tracked down the pupils...

Lakatos, the Jack Kerouac of math

Nov 6, 2009
Buy this Sierpinski triangle design on a PiFactory tee-shirt “WHEN will I need any of this in real life?” is such a common question in a math classroom that it is a cliché. At one level it is a tried and tested way to stop a lesson. At another...

Wizard math… day 2

Nov 5, 2009
Buy this Homage to a Square PiFactory tee-shirt WE’D LOOKED at the sequence generated when you take a hexagon and steadily add more hexagons. It gives a linear rule. Some students got this easily, others found it challenging. For 20 minutes the task...

Wizard math

Nov 4, 2009
Buy this Mathematicians have Great Powers PiFactory tee-shirt THERE are 35 players standing in a circle. As the games wizard walks round the circle she kills every second player until only player survives. The players are numbered one through 35....

Grading gets an F

Oct 21, 2009
Buy this Persian Geometry design on a PiFactory tee-shirt THE PRINCIPAL of my school has bravely initiated a discussion about whether or not D and F grades should be used by teachers. The argument goes along the lines if D and F grades are ditched...


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