by Gary Pemberton | Oct 24, 2012 | Secondary Maths
On October 26th 1994 an announcement was made that one of the most famous problems in the history of Mathematics had been solved – Fermat’s Last Theorem. Until 1995 it was recorded in The Guinness Book of World Records as one of the world’s...
by Gary Pemberton | Oct 17, 2012 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Secondary Maths
Good mental arithmetic is essential for students and parents can help to develop these skills in lots of ways. Those car journeys to and from school (or to and from Sohar!) can be used to learn multiplication tables, if while you are driving you and your children take...
by Gary Pemberton | Oct 17, 2012 | Grade 8, Secondary Maths
Grade 8’s are currently doing some work on Volume and Surface Area of Prisms (boxes!). This work will continue into next week and the students have been asked to bring in some boxes for class on Saturday so that we can look at packaging and design during...
by Gary Pemberton | Oct 17, 2012 | Grade 6, Secondary Science
In the unit It’s Alive! grade 6 students have completed their individual iMovie presentations of one of the groups of invertebrate animals. We have now started to bring all the presentations together to make a film about all major invertebrate animal groups....
by Gary Pemberton | Oct 17, 2012 | Secondary Maths
Yesterday, Wednesday 16th October, was Ada Lovelace Day. Ada was born in 1815, the daughter of the famous poet, Lord Byron. She was a mathematician in an age where women were not encouraged to follow any type of academic career. She is mainly known for her work on...
