Traditionally we have taught the basics of spreadsheeting in S1 by providing learners with lists of products and prices (e.g. Star Bar, cost £0.42, sales 50) and having them use a formula to calculate the total sales revenue of each product. Dull! This year we decided that rather than superficially manufacture data, our students would generate [...]
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Teaching statistics with Mario Kart Wii
June 12th, 2010
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We have just completed the Mario Kart Challenge with all of our Maths S1 and S2 pupils. Having borrowed a brand new Wii, 4 controllers and Mario Kart from the Consolarium at LT Scotland, we decided to build it into our Maths curriculum whilst also taking part in the national Mario Kart Challenge. We decided [...]
