Category: Education

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Official Declaration

As an encouragement to one of my classes today I decided I would declare them as a genius on this website if they produced a scattergraph that looks better than mine. The criteria I used were:

  • Axis scales consistent
  • Axes correctly labelled and correct variable
  • Small crosses for each datum
  • Good, well-positioned line of best fit
  • Good interpolation value from graph

The following pupils succeeded and are therefore declared geniuses:

Ed
Louis
Leo
George W
Cameron
Stewart
James

 

 

 

Note: genius should only be taken to mean able to draw a graph.

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Meme

One of the standard explanations and examples I use when teaching the mechanics module of A Level is to consider driving a car around town. Most pupils have experienced, or are aware, of people thier age who drive circuits around the local town trying to get noticed. I used to just talk about this practice but a few months back a friend was talking about his teenage experience of this form of behaviour and he used the term:

Barry Laps

This term didn’t really need any explaination as I already knew what it meant. I’ve never really partaken in the the Barry Lap experience. I think the closest I got was riding around Bishop’s Stortford on my Honda NTV 650 with Daryl on his Silverwing just after we had set up radio communication between us. We went around town a few times chatting to each other on the way. Being able to easily communicate between different bikes was far more of a novalty than trying to get attention from onlookers. This was in 1999 and quite before either of us owned mobile phones.

Anyway, I hope that with my continued use that the term Barry Lap might one day make it into the OED!

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Vader’s Saber

My form group have left their compulsory education, although most are coming back, and as I will no longer be their form tutor they very kindly bought me a gift.

Darth Vader's Lightsaber
Darth Vader's Lightsaber

It is a .45 scale replica of the lightsaber prop used in the film of Star Wars Episode 4. It’s an excellent choice of weapon, being the one that disptached Obi Wan Kenobi about three quarters of the way through the film.

Thanks very much 11Ph.

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Ammonite

I got two rather cool gifts from my further mathematics class when I saw them for the last time today. The first thing is an iPhone case that looks a lot like a very early calculator.

iPhone Calculator Case

There is a slight mistake though because you can’t write “hello” on a calculator without putting a decimal point after the zero so it should look like “hell.o”. Just me being a pedant and geek there.

The next gift is a gorgeous looking fossil.

Ammonite
Ammonite

The details of this fossil are:

Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic Ammonite from Whitby:-

Dactylioceras (Orthodactylites) tenuicostatum

The Grey Shales, Tenuicostatum Subzone, Tenuicostatum Zone, Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic, Kettleness, Nr. Whitby, North Yorkshire, England

180 million years old

Really impressed with this. Going to keep it safe.

The class were: Alex, Peter, Lewis, Stephen, Michael, James, Thomas, Thomas and Joshua.

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Excellent Adverts

It really doesn’t get much better than this Australian advert from the Shonky awards:

 

Or, you might want to have a look at this excellent Adobe advert:

 

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