Examiners Report
It is highly recommended that you and your department read the examiners report after an exam session, because it gives you a real insight into important aspects of what examiners observed and, more importantly,...
Teacher Slides: Aims & Uses
A collection of teacher presentations and supporting notes for students are provided on this site. A number (certainly not all) are designed with some of the 'best practice' principles of explicit instruction...
More probability in the news
There is never a shortage of number sin the news, but I did just want to share these two posts I saw recently that I think make for excellent contexts for maths applications lessons. First there is this...
Jean Pockets and T-tests
This is just a quick blog post to share something that crossed my path on twitter this week. I saw it posted by Pamela Odom with an #IBMathai hashtag. Then followed to Dr Jess Hartnett and The Pudding to...
Jean Pockets and T-tests
This is just a quick blog post to share something that crossed my path on twitter this week. I saw it posted by Pamela Odom with an #IBMathai hashtag. Then followed to Dr Jess Hartnett and The Pudding to...
New Internal Assessment
As we say farewell to the old math(s) studies course, many of us are winding up for our first run through the Internal Assessment cycle for the new AI course. There are more than a few pressure points...
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Pearson's (r) for Discrete data?
A subscriber asked the below, 'good' question: "I have a student that wants to look at the correlation between time students spend on their phones and IB predicted grade. Will the student get penalized...
What are the chances?
This news from South Africa about a set of consective numbers that came out is just too good for a mathematics and ToK teacher. It is just so charged with potential for investigation and discussion so I...
The end of an era!
Students in southern hemisphere schools have just finished their exams and so the final session for Maths Studies has finished and the course is officially closed. This feels like the end of an era to...
Election Fever
Clearly, we will all have different priorities for news, but rightly or wrongly, where I live and in my social media bubbles this week, the US elections have been front and centre. I'll spare you the...