Sabbatical
Hi all, this is just a quick post to share my plans for the near future with you. Term has just ended for us here in Toulouse and the long summer holidays are just beginning. This year felt a bit odd...
Chi Squared, regression and causation
This is a quick blog post about a couple of discussions I have had recently about students using both Linear regression and independence tests with the same data! I wrote this in a correspondence recently...
This years projects
As many of you probably are, I am currently putting the finishing touches on this years batch of Internal Assessment projects. It always seems like a monster exercise, but one that is worth it in the...
Project Ideas
Projects are on our minds at the moment! I am just final checking my IB2 projects before submitting marks and just starting my projects with IB1s. this year I have been really happy with the build up...
Perceived Corruption
Here is another wonderful example of the sort of thing that is flying around the Internet these days that makes teaching statistics so real. Check out this post on the results of survey about perceived...
Theory of Knowledge
I want to use this opportunity to explain how my own personal approach to ToK has developed. Like many teachers who start the IB, the whole idea was very new to me and seemed very much like a distant...
Logic Lab
I just wanted to write a quick post about this tool I have been playing with for teaching logic. Here is the link to The Logic Lab. It is quite self explanatory, but essentially, you get make some simple...
May 2014 Results!
Each year I am required to write a report on the IB Mathematics results and, although I am still in holiday mode, I am beginning to think about what I will write this year. Obviously I wont publish confidential...
The Intuition Line
This blog post is about a concept I am defining as 'The Intuition Line'. I am sure I am not the first to do so, but it is currently present in my thoughts so I wanted to write it down! In short, I am...
The Problem with Monty Hall
Those of you familiar with the Monty Hall problem will know what a wonderfully rich bit of mathematics it is. Those of you who are not are faced with a problem the Internet has brought us. I would suggest...