Students as Observer Learners

First meeting of the year: Thursday 25th Oct 2012

Agenda

0. Jaffa Cakes!!
Do you know how they are made? 
Year 9 taste testing to follow in the year.

1. Explain what they will need to do.
2. How are they finding the course so far?
3. Do they like using workbooks (Yr10)/ exercise books (Yr 9)?
4. How are they finding the pace?
5. How are they finding the topics covered?
6. How are they coping with terminology? 
7. Any comments/feedback?

BDA - Dyslexia Awareness Week 9th Oct

How a Dyslexic brain works.

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BDA - Dyslexia Awareness Week 8th Oct

The BDA - British Dyslexic Association has a ' Dyslexia Awareness' week running from 8th Oct .

Here Richard Branson talks about himself as a dyslexic.

Numeracy SIG

Funny Calculation:

Group aims: 1. To explore numeracy across the curriculum.
2. To ensure consistent use of numeracy key terms and teaching techniques.
My aims: 
1. To explore numeracy in the Business finance unit.
2. To support a set 6 with numeracy in the spreadsheet unit.

Bar chart challenge 
Food names are discrete data and so should have gaps in between the bars. Continuous data should not have gaps in between bars. 
Discrete - Pie chart, bar chart.
Continuous - line graphs.


Key Words - FREQUENCY, CONTINUOUS, DISCRETE

QWC now tested in Maths exam.

Skills Map
How we use numeracy:
IT - Scales in graphics/formulae and graphs in spreadsheets
Business - Breakeven graphs/balance sheets