Mr Wilson

Just giving this a midweek bump, what do you use for board work? #mathstoday #UKMathsChat

Don’t seem to have got the hang of this summer holidays malarkey. Up at 7am again… maybe this is just me now.

Anyway, think I’ll go for a walk 🚶

Do you know if it’s got a windows app? I have a Microsoft Surface.

(I thought it would work better with the IT at school as we’re very much Windows… but ironically iPads can connect wirelessly to the promethean, surfaces cannot!)

What are you using in #mathstoday

Question for Maths teachers… what’s your go to for work on the board?
PowerPoint? OneNote? Activinspire?

I like the ‘infinite’ space on OneNote, but I also like being able to organise into ‘slides’.

Wondering if there’s a hybrid option out there.

Mini Whiteboards have completely revolutionised how I teach programming.
I’ve always done PRIMM, but moving Predict, Run and Investigate onto MWBs has increased engagement, allowed me to correct misconceptions quicker and deepened understanding.

I can’t imagine teaching without them now.

I’m looking to connect with Scottish maths teachers on the topic of BGE assessment, tracking and monitoring.

If you’d be willing to answer a couple of questions from a fledgling PT, let me know.

#mathsweekscotland

Today is Sunday. Sundays are the days for the big questions.

Today I have the biggest.

When will Aptos be available on OneNots? @mtholfsen.bsky.social @microsoft.com

My body clock is doing a weird thing where I wake up at 4:30 regardless of when I fall asleep. Quite inconvenient.

Anyway, good morning and happy Friday!

Lots of experience of negative numbers in a Scottish winter!

It’s been a fraught day with the Christmas tree. Just as I got the branches fluffed, the cheap base crumbled. No attempts to stabilise it were fruitful. Finally decided to take it down and get a new one, and marked my recently decorated wall in the process.

Will retry the Christmas spirit tomorrow

Sounds great. I think being able to visually see the loop happening on screen helps a lot!

Same boat until about 32 minutes ago haha

Officially started Christmas shopping. It’s now a slippery slope of ‘oh my god it’s only X days to go’ through to the big day.

Mine isn’t, changed from MrWilsonCompSci as I’m dual registering in Maths

(Sorry if people like me make your project harder!)

Just discovered mathswhiteboard.com by @matttheapp.bsky.social - going to be a fantastic addition to the tools I'll use when planning and teaching Maths!

Starting to write mine this weekend. Being sat in a couple of weeks. Can’t believe we’re here already!

I hope there’s an open data set for this. I can feel a practice N5 and Higher Computing assignment coming on…

I don’t think I would be so deeply interested in pedagogy if it wasn’t for formerly Twitter and I’m hoping for BlueSky to fill that void!

When I read a book/paper or listen to a podcast I’m desperate to interact with people about it!

Happy Friday. It’s been a busy week.

Delighted to have been appointed PT of Mathematics, Numeracy and Technologies at Dumfries Academy.

Exciting times ahead!

I.e rather than the ‘scratch’ unit which introduce all programming concepts, I work through each programming concept and tasks are available for concrete (physical), pictorial (scratch) and abstract (textual). Pupils can switch between depending on their progress.

Just riffing really.
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I want to make the most of the engaging nature of microbits/robots etc, but want to make sure it’s worthwhile in laying the foundations of programming knowledge and skills.

I’m considering a system whereby pupils can more easily move between concrete, pictorial and abstract at any stage.

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What seems to happen when they come to do edublocks is they’ve not really learned any core programming concepts from their scratch experience. This is despite them being referred to explicitly when the learning is happening.

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Yeah I try to do this, but the amount of knowledge that actually comes through when they revisit isn’t what I’d like.

Typically just now it looks like:

Primary - maybe scratch, maybe robots, maybe nothing
S1 (Y7) - scratch
S2 (Y8) - edublocks
S3 onwards - textual programming

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Thanks for the book recommendation! Added to my kindle and looking forward to reading it

Luckily in Scotland they’re seen as two separate subjects - Admin & IT and Computing Science.

I think what’s been missing from my practice is the connecting the knowledge and skills between concrete, pictorial and abstract.

Like everything, it’s finding the time!

In my maths dual qualification journey I have been learning a lot about #ConcretePictorialAbstract - could this be something adapted to programming education?

Concrete - programming something physical
Pictorial - Scratch or similar
Abstract - Python

How do you make sure that the likes of Scratch and Physical Computing is worthwhile in laying foundations for textual programming?

I often find learners remember ‘making a game’ or ‘making the robot move’ but don’t learn about sequencing, iteration, selection etc.

#teamcompsci

Not posted on here really since the start of term… it’s been hectic!

Thinking today about ensuring afterschool supported study is effective. What are others’ strategies?

#teamcompsci #edusky