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NOW AVAILABLE!
FRENCH set of Placemaths!
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Beginning in Sept 2010, Ray will be working at Simon Fraser University and will be also diving into his PhD. Ray will only be available for workshops from the end of April to the end of June 2011.
To book Ray, Click HERE.
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Take AIM (Assessment in Mathematics)
BCAMT Interior Math Conference
(Ray keynoting with Peter Liljedahl and David Van Bergeyk)
See the video HERE.
NEW BOOK!
Teacher Survival Secrets!
SUMMER SALE! 10 % OFF! LIMITED TIME!
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NOW AVAILABLE!
FRENCH set of Placemaths!
SUMMER SALE! 10 % OFF! LIMITED TIME!
PLUS: NO SHIPPING COSTS!
Go to the “Store” HERE.
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AfterMaths
Mental Math Package!
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FREE! I've just added a free 40 minute movie I made on assessment! Click HERE.
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John Lennon talks about the origins of Zapple Pi, and my ties to George Harrison!
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ARCHIMEDES' LABORATORY! Cool!
NEW MOVIE!
Try this on Monday...
This is another Zapple Teachable Minute! How can you add up sets of 3 digit numbers that your friends or students call out? How can you add up in just seconds? Here's the trick! ...But we'll also look at the patterns that we can find, so it's way more than just an adding trick. ...all in less than 180 seconds.
This is me on Happy Gilmore. Enjoy!
(I’m the one standing on the far right behind Shooter McGavin. My hair is parted on the side and I'm wearing a light short-sleeved shirt. When Shooter McGavin storms by me I start to recoil.)
Fine Arts
Ray has created a series of drawings, watercolours and images depicting important issues and ideas in education today. The series of art depictions is entitled, “Understand Mind Space”, and will be available to view online soon. Each art piece will have an explanation to describe the relevance to us as educators and thinkers. Ray is excited by this exploratory project where he examines how we learn through the visual. For a sneak peek at his writing, Click here. More soon...
How can we get more time?
If you do something in your class for 15 minutes every day, that equals 2 full weeks of school time! Yikes! Ray gives a few ideas in just 180 seconds!
Just thought I'd try something...
I took my 18 year old cat for a walk. Then I filmed him with my new iPhone 3GS. After that, I put it into iMovie, added some music and transitions and then this is the result. I just wanted to see what it would look like that's all... It didn't seem to work when I tried to upload it as a .mov or a .mp4. Now I'm trying DivX, but I've heard it not that good... Let's see what happens. That's all.
Yeti Goes for a Walk Two (the sequel)...
This is the sequel to Yeti's walk last summer. It's done in the style of those old annoying educational videos from the fifties and early sixties where the narrator totally patronized the school kids by treating them as if they didn't know anything... The narration is meant to be kind of annoying... it's all part of the show. Created with my iPhone. Lots of fun!
How is math used in the real world?
Done in a quick, fast-paced, action-packed style of the Borne Identity.
FREE Lesson plan for this on my "Free Stuff" above!
LATEST MOVIE!
Procedure and Concept have to solve a problem. Which orange juice recipe is stronger? One walks away with a procedure and a correct answer. The other walks away with a correct answer and a deep conceptual understanding by using one-half as a benchmark. Do we SKIP the concept over the procedure?
WOW! BEST COMMERCIAL I'VE SEEN IN YEARS...
Close to 25 000
views on all my videos!
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Zapple Sampler
If you would like a CD of many of these files plus much, much much, much, much more,
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I've got all the older samplers and NEW ones too!
Lots of stuff!
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