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Mrs Busby, Harborne, 11th January 1997
How about trying a telephone help line for parents during the "Year of Numeracy". Perhaps during the summer term 4pm till 6pm each weekday. Parents could phone in with questions about their child's mathematics.
[Anyone out there got any suggestions as to how we could organise this excellent idea? Ed.]
Jim Page, St Mary's, 11th January 1997
At last I've found the Birmingham Maths Web Site everyone is talking about. How about printing some maths/numeracy cartoon stickers....lots of uses.
Mr S Crees, Lyndon Green, 14th January 1997
What about a link with your business partnership ?
Mike Kendall, Innovation and Communications, 19th January 1997
Like the idea about the parents' telephone link. What about
doing this as a radio show, perhaps one of the local stations would do a call-in, perhaps
not every week.
What about getting some sponsors for the 'phone-in, even BT but more like Bham Cable or
Mercury. The call-in could be occasional to save costs.
What about a challenge to the TEC or Chamber of Commerce, Engineering Employers. How about
talking to Peter Lambert, Director of Business into Industry for West Midlands, and many
more.
St Andrews School, Bordesley Village, 6th February 1997
We just got on the Net and are delighted to find a page which gives us such detaliled information about this Year of Numeracy.
Don Hall, Sheldon Heath School, 7th February 1997
Best of luck with this web site!
David West, St. Paul's School for Girls, Edgbaston. 11th February 1997
Hi, John! I have added a link to your Birmingham Maths site on my Educational Resources pages under "Maths". You can find it at.....http://www.brunel.co.uk/davidw/_SEVEN32.html
This is part of my "Educational Resources" site with over 850 links covering 42 school-based subjects and topics, an excellent starting point for Web research or just for browsing in. I even have my own Search Engine on the site, and on the page, for more specific searching.
Main Index.... http://www.brunel.co.uk/davidw/_SEVEN.html
Don't forget to look at our Award-winning Home Pages, a VAST General Interest site with something for everyone at...http://www.brunel.co.uk/davidw/_Davidw.html
Val Warwick, Tasmania, 16th February 1997
I am a teacher in Tasmania and have spent an interesting hour perusing this site. I note that there is to be an in-service in 1998 regarding 'Mathematics from a story'. This is a topic in which I am very interested as I am hoping to do some work correlating my English and numeracy programmes closely this year. I teach a grade 4/5 at Franklin Primary school. Any information would be appreciated. Thank you.
Val Warwick
44 Continental Rd
Glenorchy Tasmania 7010
Australia
e-mail: Warwickfamily@southcom.com.au
[Thanks for your enquiry Val, you are our first International guest and are very welcome. Ed.]
Caroline, Waverley School, 4th March 1997
Cute times table software - I did the 2 times table quiz in 49 seconds, I'll practice. I'll try it out on the kids tomorrow.
Isobel Birmingham, 19th March 1997
Thank you for the software re tests. I'm a teacher in Birmingham and we are just joining the Numeracy project. I'm a newbie so any info/software will be most welcome.
Kenny Chong, Malaysia, 23rd March 1997
Name : Kenny
Age : 21
Sex : male
Country : Malaysia
College : Informatics
Course : Bachelor of Information Technology
Major : Computer Science
I like programming,( in C++ ) and I also loke maths very much. So I will try out some
maths question when I'm free.
You told me that you are interesting in my earliest maths education. And how I learn mental arithmetic. Right? What I still remember is, the starting maths in my life is learn two digits plus and subtract . e.g: 12 + 15, 30 - 12 and etc.( in 6 years old) and I starting to learn * and / in 7 years old. I still remember our teacher always call student go out one by one and doing some maths question. Some time she/he would like to give us some IQ maths. For example, to sum out 1 to 100. Teacher wanna us solve it out within 1 min, how can 7 years old child solve it out in 1 min. So, every children try to do it out, but nobody can sum it out within 1 min. The solution given by the teacher very interesting(cause I still 7 years old) , there is sum the head and the tail, and repeat. E.g: 1 + 100 =101, 2 + 99 = 101, 3 +98 =101, and so on. So it got 50 pair of 101. Then we 50*101=5050. Starting from that day I very interesting in maths cause I found that maths is fun and interesting.
Misha, Moscow, 26th March 1997
Hi !
My name is Mike ( Misha ). I'm 12 e.o. I leave in Moscow, Russia. Look my URL http://www.cea.ru/school/hpmiklee.htm & my school http://www.cea.ru/school
Get me a math task ?
By. Mike
Year 10 Mathsgroup, Armadale Christian College, Perth, 6th April 1997
Hi, We are some more Aussie net surfers from Armadale Christian College in Perth. WA. 6112.We've found some good US Mathsites, it's good to have a UK one! We'll be in touch. Year 10 Mathsgroup
Jean Lee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , 9th April 1997
Thank you for developing this interesting web site. We are interested in measuring numeracy in our chronically ill (dialysis) patients and seeing if it affects their degree of compliance. Our patients are on very complicated medical regimens which they may not be able to comprehend due to their level of numeracy.We are looking for a assessment tool. Could you help us?
Jean Lee leej1@allegheny.edu
Danny Cheng, New Zealand, 11th April 1997
Hello, I have recently go to your Web, and I wonder if you could answer some questions of mine:
> >> 1.What is perfect numbers?
> >> 2.How could you write a computer programe to find perfect numbers?
Thankyou very much!
I go to Macleans College in New Zealand and I am 14 years old. This is a school project, where we have to investigate something to do with maths! I would like to ask if you could tell me more perfect numbers, and if there is a formula for working out perfect numbers. Thankyou
Roy Thomas, Braintree, 21st April 1997
Roy Thomas paying a visit from Braintree England!
Thanks
Susana Guardado, Mexico City, 23rd April 1997
Hi:
I'm a free-lance translator in Mexico City and I'm trying to find an equivalent in Spanish
for the term "numeracy". I'm translating a book by Terezinha Nunes which must be
ready before May 19, so I'd really appreciate any suggestion before that date.
Thank you so much for your time and help. Please deliver any possible equivalent or idea to tradmb@ienlaces.com.mx, to the attention of Susana Guardado. Thank you again!
Tom, Lansing, USA, 1st May 1997
Does anyone have any ideas on teaching numeracy to adults in an adult education setting? Tom from Lansing, Mi
David Thomas, Newcastle, 7th May 1997
I am a teacher at Walbottle Campus, an 13-18 Technology College in Newcastle upon Tyne. We are intending to organise a week in October when the whole school focuses on Numeracy. (what ever that means, as yet to be decided). I would be interested in making contact with any groups, schools, advisors who may be able to relate their own experiences with such an undertaking or offer suggestions as to suitable activities they have used previously (or ones to avoid!). All contacts would be much appreciated.
Jiu-Joo, Sarawak, Malaysia, 12th May 1997
My school is going to have an open-day and our Maths Club is going to put up some projects and games for the day. Using Maths software in class rooms is something new here. Anyone interested in supplying maths software for the exibition?
email: jiujoo@tm.net.my
Jean-Baptiste Goyette, Canada, 11th June 1997
Is there a formula I could use to find the volume of a rhombicosidodecahedron? If not, how could I find the volume?
My name is Jean-Baptiste Goyette. I live in Parksville, that's on Vancouver Island, and to generalize even more that's in Canada (south-west coast).
email: goyette@nanaimo.ark.com
Russ Kavanagh, Cheshire, 23rd June 1997
John, many thanks for the free software. I would be grateful if I could possibly keep in touch. I have been selected to take part in the latest DofE and NCET evaluation of multimedia laptops and would love to be able to share your establishment's undoubted knowledge about maths with other colleagues at my school.
email: pooltowncjs@pftp.org.uk
Archana Vaid, USA, 26th June 1997
Hi! I am Archana, looking for some mathematical tricks and tips to help me prepare for entrance exams.
My email :archanav@usa.net
Rosemary Callingham from the Office for Educational Review, Tasmania, Australia. 2nd July 1997
I'm responsible for this year's numeracy testing program for year 9 students (age about 14). As part of this we have an investigative task which students can complete via the Internet. The address is http://www.tased.edu.au/tasonline/edreview
I'd welcome any comments or suggestions. If students want to try the task that would be great too and I'll send a response in due course. Looking forward to hearing from you.
DD?, 4th July 1997
I am doing a graduate research project regarding logic in the math curriculum K-12.
It would be most appreciative if I could get information on your school system's involvement with logic. For example, what type of logic is taught at the elementary level if at all, and what level of degree is logic taught at the middle and high school levels.
I look forward to your rsponse. Thanks in advance,
Mandy Rosen mrosen@one.net.au
My son needs to make a calender up of Roman numerals & Japanese numerals with maths equations on each day could you help me find these over the internet so he could do this project
we have been trying for 2 weeks to find stuff on the internet
thank you
Mandy
Gaenor Bond <gbond@oznewmedia.com>
I hope you can help me (or forward me to someone who can). I work for a multi-media publishing company, Oz New Media, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I'm looking for all the information I can get about Primary education, particularly Literacy and Numeracy. I need to know the standards, curriculum, resource information, technical capacity of schools, as well as any other general information you'd care to share.
I hope you can help me in this regard. I look forward to hearing from you.
Gaenor Bond
Acquisitions
Oz New Media
Sharanjeet Shan-Randhawa, South Africa
Hi! Finding the Birmingham website was just about the most interesting event that happened this week. Birmingham is my home town. It was wonderful to see such innovative and interesting support for teachers.
Here at the Maths Centre, we are learning to create our own website. You have inspired us to stay with our efforts. Thank you.
Anne! I am sending a brochure of the centre and would like to be put on the mailing list for your materials. MCPT works in the most disadvantaged Primary schools in town ship and rural communities.
Sharanjeet Shan-Randhawa
Executive Director: MCPT
Louise Habberley, Westhill College
Please help!!
I am a 4th Year BEd Student, painstakingly undertaking research into how children's self esteem is affected (positively or negatively) by setting in maths. Literature on this subject is scarce. If anyone anywhere has any juicy information please contact me at my Email address:
l.r.habberley.94@westhill.ac.uk
25th October 1997
My name is Fiona MacDonald and I a Senior Teacher currently working on an asignment at Strathclye University on the way forward in early numeracy skills. I would be very grateful to hear of any recent research, I have tried to read as much as i can and have been struck with the magnitude of the implications of applying the new thoughts on early numeracy within my school.
Reseach or thoughts on the best way forward would be very welcome.
Hope you can help me in this
Fiona MacDonald
11th November 1997
My name is Lorna Ducker. I am a mathematics coordinator at an 5-16 special needs school in scunthorpe (MLD & EBD). I have recently taken up the post and would be interested in talking to anyone in a similar position. I am currently trying to find a good test to give a standardised score for my secondary pupils.
I am also studing for a Msc at Loughborough university and have to do a presentation about the new research in numeracy in primary schools. I know a little about the national numeracy project, but would like some more information, and any idea's where I can find more information about the Hungarian and Swiss approaches.
I have really enjoyed looking at your website.
My email address is bernardducker@msn.com
20 November 1997
I have been fascinated by the information on this web site. I have applied for a numeracy advisors post and if interviewed will be required to do a presentation The Key Issues Ensuring Continuity between KS2 and KS3. Any ideas gratefully received.
Wendy R. London
mailto:michael.rennie@which.net
16th December 1997
I am Tom Smith a math Co-ordinator at a MLD and EBD school for R to Year 6 children. I would like suggestions for practical activities to reinforce number, shape and capacity. The Year 6 children are operating at KS1 level.
16th December 1997
My name is Telma and I am a Brazilian teacher of mathematics. I am writing this letter because I am a person that believes in by force of the education and, unhappily, in my country, the education and, consequently, the educators have been a lot devaluated. That, I decided to seek a country where somebody helped me so that I don't abandon the mastership.
I have forty years and I work as teacher from when I was nineteen years old. I was engineering student and when I saw that my way was to teach and I decided to be devoted to the study of the pure mathematics. I love to teach. I like to live together with young people. My life is the mastership and I will have a lot of sadness if it be forced to abandon the class room for lack of conditions to live here with teacher's wage in Brazil.
So that the people that are out of here they know, as it is to be a teacher in Brazil, we can take as example a teacher of a federal public university that has master's title. This teacher needs to work a week 60 hours to receive an annual wage of approximately twenty thousand dollars. There is a report in the magazine SEES of December 10 of this year I respect it of that problem. The teachers of the public universities are abandoning them to work in private universities that pay better wages but they have a level of weaker teaching.
I live in Rio de Janeiro and in my city, a teacher of state school, with ten years of mastership, just receives two thousand and six hundred dollars a year! It can seem incredible for somebody that lives at a country where the education is considered important but here in Brazil, this is our sad reality. If I will continue mentioning examples of another smaller cities in the north or in the Northeast of the country, the people will think that I am being delirious or that I am lying. Lamentably that is our reality last. And to complete, besides the very low wages, the work conditions are terrible: the schools don't have a good structure, the buildings are needing works, it lacks everything - from the chalk, the paper, the wallets, until the students' snack.
A teacher that wants better wages, it should seek a private school to work. Those schools are becoming great companies and more and more they stand back of the objectives of the education. The student pays very expensive for the school and the teacher, besides being considered as an employee of the student; he has the obligation of approving all the students because the student reproved search other school. Of neither course nor all the schools matters are like this - there are still very serious private schools, that make a good work but these are the minority.
To sustain alone my two adolescent kids, I work in several schools: in the morning, in the afternoon and at night. What is happening? Suddenly, I noticed that I didn't see my children they to grow, I didn't have entertainment, I didn't have time of improving me as teacher, I didn't have any life quality in the last ten years. I began to study computer science on this year with the objective of to become a professional of computers and to release the mastership. With that work type I could receive a better wage and to have more time for me and for my family but I don't get to imagine my life far away from the school.
I love my country, in the same way that I love my work. But more I cannot support the idea of seeing the education to finish in the hands of incompetent political administrations and I prefer myself to move away. And it is that the reason of my letter: I want to ask support to be always working and studying with my two children in England. I went know London in March of this year and I was enchanted with the city. I always dreamed in knowing England and today my desire is to live in England. I want to work in England because I consider the very close English educational system than I believe to be the best.
Here in Brazil there are many cases of tillers that leave the interior of the Northeast of the country and they come for the south to try better survival conditions. Why cannot I try better work conditions in another country? It is very sad - so much for the country to abandon its earth as for me and for my children. The roosts and they exist they are very strong. But, I already abandoned a career as engineer to teach mathematics and as I continue wanting to teach, in good work conditions and life, I decided to write this letter looking for somebody that believes in me. Somebody that believes in a forty year-old woman that wants to place in risk all the stability that possesses in search of an ideal: to teach without interests trades hidden behind its class room. To teach without involved political interests. To teach for the pleasure of seeing the youths intellectually to grow.
Please, somebody helps me. I know that seems strange a request as mine but it is very important for me that, after dedicating my life to the mastership, I am not forced to abandon him because I didn't adapt to the trade in that the education in Brazil changed. Precise of a scholarship, precise of an employment, precise of a chance of showing to the teachers in Brazil that the education stills exists. Even if on the other side of the ocean Atlantic.
24th December 1997
Really good site. Love the numeracy stuff. We'll be there soon.
Geoff Dunn
Penrice School, Cornwall
26th December 1997
I am a high school applied mathematics teacher and am constantly looking for great ideas for my students. I have found some great ones here!!
Anyone who has anymore, be sure to forward them to me at smungle@sheltonbbs.com. I look forward to hearing from anyone. I am always eager to hear new ideas.
Wesley Fogel wesley@moose.co.uk
Hi, I have found a trick whilst surfing and wondered how it is solved, and even created. The first three steps are obvious but the last two have me (a mere second year economics student at the University of Southampton) beaten.
> > 1. Pick the number of days a week that you would like to go out.
> > 2. Multiply this number by 2.
> > 3. Add 5.
> > 4. Multiply it by 50.
> > 5. If you have already had your birthday this year, add 1748.
> > If you haven't, add 1747.
> > 6. Subtract the four digit year that you were born.
> > 7. SEE BELOW:
> > RESULTS:
> > You should now have a three digit number: The first digit of this was your original number (i.e. how many times you want to go out each week). The second two digits are your age!!! It really works.
This is the only year (1998) it will ever work, so spread the joy around by mailing this to everyone you know.
Charles Wheeler mailto:cwheeler@pnc.com.au
I am leading a Maths development project at our school in Sydney Australia and i would love the opportunity to chat / e-mail, with primary school teachers about maths initiatives in their schools. This seems a wonderful site. Are there others out their who want to share ideas?Abigail SchirmAbigail Schirmer
Abigail Schirmer mailto:AnNguyen96@aol.com
I am looking for information on Stifel's number mysticism. And I am looking for ways to research the historical importance of certain numbers for certain cultures.
14 Babylonia
28 Arabic
60 Babylonia
72 China/Islam
30 China
27 Egypt
100 China
10000 China
Any suggestions to use internet, specific books at high school level would be helpful.
Thanks
Abigail Schirmer, Teacher, Fenway Middle college high school, Boston
David John Morris
I'm an Australian University student studying numeracy as part of my Bachelor of Education. I'd just like to say that I loved your site and that it really helped me to find some useful information for my major paper about Numeracy and how it will change and develop in the years to come. Wynsy@Hotmail.com <mailto:Wynsy@Hotmail.com
May I pass on my thoughts concerning the above website. I was extremely impressed by all of the contents and found most of it very useful. As a P.G.C.E. student I need all the resources I can get and I certainly managed to get a lot.
Congratulations on producing this website, one that is going to serve many schools and educationalists who I am sure are going to get as much out of it as I have.I shall certainly visit this site more often.
Thanks again
Samantha Kempin
P.G.C.E. student from Newman College
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