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 | 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...
by Wayne Hampton | Oct 15, 2012 | Community and Service, Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, Primary P.E., Primary Visual Arts, Secondary English, Secondary French, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader, Secondary Visual Arts, Uncategorized
Dear parents, A big focus area in the Secondary School at the moment is personal organisation and we are actively working with students to help them to develop effective organisational systems and daily rituals that will not only lead to their academic success in...
by Gary Pemberton | Oct 10, 2012 | Grade 8, Secondary Maths
During our unit of work Probability this week, grade 8 had the opportunity to create a game which each participant had an equal chance of winning. The result was quite ingenious!
by Gary Pemberton | Oct 10, 2012 | Secondary Maths
For those of you that I have not yet met, I am Mr Pemberton and I am the new Secondary Mathematics teacher. I am from the UK, which is where I did my training, and taught mathematics in two schools over a period of seven years. ABIS is my fourth international school,...
