Symposium Journals

If you are interested in teaching and the education system, these online journals are a wonderful resource. The journals include :

• Symposium Homepage
• Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
• E-Learning
• European Education Research Journal
• Forum : for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education
• Policy Futures in Education
• Research in Comparative and International Education

Also, if you are interested in the history of British education, have a look at Derek Gillard's Homepage.

Stanford researchers calculate the mathematics of terror

Extract from the Stanford Report, March 3, 2006

BY JOHN B. STAFFORD

George Habash, a militant and former secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, once characterized terrorism as a "thinking man's game." Using mathematics, researchers at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) have made fighting terrorism a thinking man's game as well.

CISAC affiliate Lawrence M. Wein of the Graduate School of Business and CISAC Science Fellow Jonathan D. Farley are both applying mathematical models to homeland security problems, such as preventing a nuclear detonation in a major U.S. city and determining whether terrorist cells have likely been disrupted.

Read the full article :
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/march8/mterror-030806.html

Mathematics Resource Link

Whiteboard Resource Recommendation

WisWeb

A wonderful collection of applets that work so well on an interactive whiteboard. The site comes from the Freudenthal Instituut and APS-wiskunde in collaboration with several schools. Some examples of the resources are :
Balancing Equations
Building Houses

Try these out - they work very well in class or as independent study.

Web Site Recommendation

MathsNet

An excellent website that I use all the time when I teach. Mainly for A Level teaching, it covers most topics in the main modules available for both AS and A2 years, and the interactive past paper questions are wonderful to use a key points in a lesson. remarkably it is all free !!!. There is a GCSE version but this is a subscription service, but worth a look

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Welcome to the 2july blog.

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