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Guidance and help for teachers of Maths, in using Twitter to build a personal teaching and learning network:

Guroo is based in the North East of England.

Our mission is to provide a fantastic range of learning resources that students use for learning Functional Skills in mathematics, English and ICT at level 1 and level 2.

Guroo uses a mixture of on-line and off-line learning resources including videos to engage students in the learning tasks, podcasts which are great for revision, test questions to re-inforce learning and provide instant feedback and a great range of learning tasks with solutions and learning feedback, all based on real life themes.

At the heart of guroo are realistic, relevant and appropriate on-line learning materials that support 14-19 year old students in the three Functional Skills subjects.   Our materials include:

• 46+ Learning Challenges covering Mathematics, English and ICT at level 2, level 1, and entry level 3
• 50+ Videos and Podcasts
• 500+ Interactive questions based on Functional Skills tests
• 600+ Interactive questions based on Key Skills/ALAN tests
• 150+ Contextualised downloadable learning tasks supporting underlying learning for Functional Skills and KS/ALAN
• 150+ Learning feedback and solutions to learning tasks

• 90+ Lesson plans

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We now have three big sections on the site:
BASIC MATH:
Shapes & Colors, Numbers & Counting, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division.

ADVANCED MATH:
Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Estimation & Rounding, Ratios, and Money.

This site offers an introduction to mathematics and its variety of topics. It’s not just for kids, it’s for everyone (even if you aren’t a number nut). If you’re still not sure what to click, try our site mapthat will show you all of the topics we cover. If you surf the site and get lost in all of the information, use the search function on the side of the pages.

OKAY! A new site has to start somewhere, let’s start here…

So you’re asking, what is MATH? Well… Here’s our best definition. Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, and change. Do you think that’s a bit general? It was meant to be. Math is a part of everything in the universe.

You might be a farmer that needs to measure your land or count your crops. You might be a cook who needs to know how much food to buy. You might be a nuclear physicist that is studying the movements and activity of atoms. All of those jobs use math at one point or another. Math is just as important when you go to buy a burger, as it is to help plot the movement of planets.

Ideas and concepts in math are also universal because they are based in logic and deductive reasoning. Proofs, definitions, and theorems rule the actions of math whether you are from China, Great Britain, or another planet. The concept of “one” will always be “one” no matter what language you speak. Even computers speak math. They speak with a binary language (ones and zeroes). If this is all new to you, start with numbers and counting. You have to start somewhere.

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This is an excellent blog, dedicated to the teaching and learning of Maths. Lots of great ideas, and ways to enhance lessons. Plenty of resources to browse and muse, and a great place to keep up to date with the latest ways that technology is helping students learn and teachers teach, this subject.

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Welcome to Trailblazing, an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science. Compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians – and co-ordinated by Professor Michael Thompson FRS – it celebrates three and a half centuries of scientific endeavour and has been launched to commemorate the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary in 2010.

Scientific articles are displayed as red circles. Rollover the circle for a summary and click the tabs for more information. There is a short introduction and also links to full scientific articles. You can print the information too.

Historic events are shown by silver circles. Rolling the mouse over the silver circle will summarise the event.

Highlight commentaries in will filter the timeline, to show you only the scientific articles that relate to that topic.

You can also download highlighted commentaries as PDF.

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Ordanance survey maps are now available online, for fee. This used to be a ‘paid’ service, but the government have now made data in relation to electoral and local authority boundaries, post code areas and digital mapping information available online for free.

Statistics now available in relation to the online maps could have a range of uses within curriculum. For example: Crime, Health and Education stats in relation to a specific place and over a period of time can be used for analysis and interpretation. This data could be used in Geography and Maths to suport a range of activities.

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ScienceProjectIdeas contains over 80 articles written by our experts who continually update and add new content.

If you Register for our free monthly newsletter we’ll let you know what’s been added to ScienceProjectIdeas along with any news that we think you’ll find of interest.

ScienceProjectIdeas is the ideal place for parents, teachers and carers wanting to explore science with children. It is a regularly reviewed and updated collection of articles full of ideas for science projects in biology, chemistry, physics, maths, and environment & meteorology.

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ExploreLearning.com offers the world’s largest library of interactive online simulations for math and science education in grades 3-12. We call these simulations Gizmos. Gizmos are:

• fun, easy to use, and help students develop a deep understanding of challenging concepts through inquiry and exploration.
• research-based, flexible tools used by teachers across all 50 states in a wide variety of ways. Gizmos are ideal for small group work, individual exploration, and whole class instruction using an LCD projector or interactive whiteboard.
• designed to supplement your existing curriculum. Gizmos are correlated to state curriculum standards and over 200 textbooks, making them easy to integrate into your instructional program.
• backed by first-rate training and professional development

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Worldometers is part of the Real Time Statistics Project, which is managed by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world. Chief project coordinator is currently Sir Thomasson.

Sources are carefully selected to include only data published by the most reputable organizations and statistical offices in the world.

The counters that display the real-time numbers are based on Worldometers’ algorithm that processes the latest and most accurate statistical data available together with its estimated progression to compute the current millisecond number to be displayed on each counter based on the specific time set on each visitor’s computer clock.

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