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10ticks Newsletter
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Tuesday 2nd December 2008
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Welcome to the December 10ticks Newsletter.
This newsletter is a re-send as the first one may have been corrupted. Apologies for the inconvenience this may cause.
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VAT
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From December 1st, the 10ticks site was updated with the new 15% VAT band. This means that teacher and parent licences are now even more affordable!
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Magic Fletch
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This will appear on the 10ticks site later this year, but for a first glance, how does Fletch do it?
What has it to do with multiplication tables? Ok a clue. If you let the two digit number be 10a + b, where a and b are.... enough clues.
http://www.boffinsquad.co.uk/activities/gamesandstuff/magicfletch/game.aspx
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Multiple Intelligence Tool
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Latest sign ups: Chris Tarrant, Imran Hakin (iTeddy), Ortis Deley, Tim Don (Triathelete), Jacqueline Gold.
As you wind down for Christmas why not try the MI tool at BoffinSquad.co.uk. This is the website with the Multiple Intelligence Quiz, which links to learning styles.
We have created a teacher login to the website.
http://www.boffinsquad.co.uk/teachers/teacherIndex.aspx
From here you can set up your classes on the website. Each class is given a code that they input before attempting the quiz. All results are passed back into your area where the class is grouped automatically by the 8 Intelligence types. You can even sort by a limited number of intelligences, say Kinaesthetic, Spacial and Linguistic. There is some information on activities to give to pupils for different learning styles. In the coming months we will add a forum so you can swap ideas with each other, hopefully creating a resource bank of ideas for those interested.
We have now passed over 240 celebrities on the website who can 'twin' with your pupils. 7 Nobel prize winners, many Olympic Champions, International football managers, entrepreneurs and celebrities. If you have any contact details of a 'celeb' near you, please pass it on! We hope this will spark interest in MI and different learning styles to children.
http://www.boffinsquad.co.uk/teachers/celeb.aspx
Please have a go and leave us feedback!
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Primary Report
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More than 30,000 children are finishing primary school every year with the mathematical ability of a seven-year-old, a recent report says. The 11-year-olds are four years behind in maths skills when they arrive at secondary school, despite £2.3bn a year being spent teaching the subject.
The findings emerge from an investigation into primary school maths teaching by the National Audit Office, the public spending watchdog. It shows that 66,000 children – about one in 10 – left primary school this summer still struggling to master the subject after failing to reach the required standard for their age in national curriculum tests, although the standard they reached at seven suggested they should have done. In addition, 34,000 had the maths ability of a child of seven. Overall, 132,000 youngsters failed to reach the required standard this year.
The report also warns that there has been very little improvement in standards since the turn of the century, even though this summer's results were the best ever, with 78 per cent reaching the standard (1 per cent up on last year). They rose significantly in the first three years of Labour from 1997 to 2000, from 59 per cent to 72 per cent. The report blames weak assessment of pupils by their teachers and the lack of practical maths in the classroom. 'Using and applying mathematics is often under-emphasised in schools,' it said.
Sarah McCarthy-Fry, the Schools minister, said: 'Maths is a key priority and that's why we raised results from only 59 per cent of 11-year-olds achieving the expected standard in 1998 to 77 per cent in 2007. We are taking further decisive action to help all children reach their potential.'
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Christmas Pages
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Since opening up our Christmas pages, thousands have been taking advantage and downloading our Christmas worksheets. Please feel free to access these excellent FREE worksheets.
Go to http://www.10ticks.co.uk/s_xmas.aspx and login.
Have a good month,
10ticks Webmathster.
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