by Gary Pemberton | Jan 23, 2013 | Grade 6, Grade 8, Secondary Maths
Students in grades 6 and 8 have recently been working on Data Handling projects, grade 6 comparing the readability of magazines and newspapers and grade 8 completing and reporting on a questionnaire on a subject of personal interest. Grade 8 are due to submit their...
by Gary Pemberton | Jan 9, 2013 | Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary Maths
It is regrettable that students are still submitting incomplete homework for mathematics, despite the advice offered to many students and parents at the last parent teacher conference. Students must start homework as soon as it is set and see me the day before the...
by Gary Pemberton | Jan 9, 2013 | Secondary Maths
Mollie Orshansky was an American statistician and economist who developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds in the mid 1960s. These thresholds are still used today in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor....
by Wayne Hampton | Dec 19, 2012 | Front Page, Grade 10, Secondary English, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader
Dear parents, Our Secondary students were delighted to have an article on their beach clean up featured in the ‘Times of Oman’ on December 16. Their write up of the project was printed exactly as they wrote it, which was very encouraging for them. On Monday we had a...
by Gary Pemberton | Dec 18, 2012 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Secondary Maths
Tangrams are a Chinese dissection puzzle based around arranging seven pieces of shaped card to make a specific shape. I have attached a Tangram blank to print out and use to create several seasonal shapes… Good luck and have a nice holiday!
by Gary Pemberton | Dec 18, 2012 | Secondary Maths
December 19th 1944 is the birthdate of one of the most famous mathematicians of the modern era, Mitchell Feigenbaum. Chaos theory is one of the most important developments in mathematics of the last 50 years and develops the model of how the world and the universe...
