Maths and Physics at CSHS » Student learning http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org Marks Digital Portfolio Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:07:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Surd Animations http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/08/08/surd-animations/ http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/08/08/surd-animations/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:05:56 +0000 coburgmaths http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/?p=58 In this activity students where given a Keynote presentation. This presentation contained slides that displayed the correct working out to simplifying a surd. These slides were then re-arranged into a random order.

Students were required to re-order the slides into the correct sequence. They then had to Export their new presentation slides to Images and then import these into iMovie to create their animation:

Students were then required to Share their iMovies to Quicktime:

The final product being:

]]> http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/08/08/surd-animations/feed/ 0 Student self assessment http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/08/07/student-self-assessment/ http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/08/07/student-self-assessment/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:11:42 +0000 coburgmaths http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/?p=50 This activity was designed to allow students to reflect on their preparation and homewrork. The following images are samples of students responses:

Student homework plans

Student equipment survey responses and reflections

]]> http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/08/07/student-self-assessment/feed/ 0 Collaborating with the forum http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/05/13/collaborating-with-the-forum/ http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/05/13/collaborating-with-the-forum/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 02:02:15 +0000 coburgmaths http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/05/13/collaborating-with-the-forum/ In this conversation  students were asked to view a youtube clip and answer a selection of questions ranging from lower order:  1. How are x-rays produced, 2.What is ‘x-ray’ short for? to higher order thinking: 9. Do you think x-rays pass through bone or flesh more easily? .The students decided the Forum would be the most effective way to share their understandings. Forum discussion link.

Forum screen grab

]]> http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/05/13/collaborating-with-the-forum/feed/ 0 Understanding student learning http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/understanding-student-learning/ http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/understanding-student-learning/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:52:42 +0000 coburgmaths http://coburgmaths.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/understanding-student-learning/ From my time lecturing maths education students at La Trobe University I was able to reflect on my current teaching practice and build around this to create a unit of work that best exemplifies my teaching approach. This can be viewed at http://mathsatcoburgshs.blogspot.com/ .

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