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weebecka:

As you well know betablockers,

Im not sure if thats attempted humour, an insult or just new product you and Sabbir are working on.

weebecka:

 

I was HOD for 5 terms before my school shut, taking four year groups through external exams, all of whom exceeded all their targets at multi-levelled FTTDs, while being externally inspected up to 7 times a year and only receiving positive reviews.

So not the inspection you failed? I lose track and it doesnt answer the question. I have 'taken groups' through exams after doing 12 weeks revision at the end of a solid foundation they hae come to me with...so yet again you dodge the question then shift the focus away from your sketchy past. Using the term "As you well know" was pointless as your account of what you have done changes frequently

Some posts later when you were pushed further.......

weebecka:

I've taught quite a few GCSE groups through the two years.  Plenty of statistics, all meaningful, all good.  Actually my very first group through as and NQT weren't so hot but they weren't aweful either.

.......yet you were unable to say that in the first post?

When were you an NQT and just to clarify? Had you been trained to teach/spout the garbage that you do and used it throughout the 2 year cycles as an NQT?

Where did you train? (apologies as I believe you alluded to it before) as I would love to have seen how they were training folk to come out with such methods. I thought your evolution to expert status (your quote, not mine) has come through years of teaching?

Are you suggesting that the first term of their GCSE courses when the school has no speciliast maths teachers (except one who came in near the end of that term) as the critical time when these students made progress?

Is betamale advocating teacherless education?

Go for beta! this'll be a laugh.

No idea what you are stating or where you are going with this but no doubt its to move the focus away from any questions being asked.

So we will leave it with the following:

Since starting your Circus act (that seems to be moved on quicker than a your average traveller camp), you have not spent 2 years in mainstream education using the methods you advocate with one class who have had to schieve in GCSE/A Level. Its been a case of telling others how to teach and doing the odd stint here and there with your magic box of edutainment before either leaving or 'being found a new project'?

See if you can manage a response that an adult would give rather than the start of the last, even my pet cat hid behind the sofa when they read the cringe post

Karvol:

 I still find this debate a tad strange. How many of the pupils from 1957 would be able to use a computer? A calculator? Would be able to plot curves of whatever function on a calculator and investigate its different properties?

I remember being taught at University to handplot curves on paper - this was before hires displays became commonplace.

It's more an issue of the analysis that the tools. Yes, pupils can put equations into graphing calculators and get something back, doesn't mean they have a clue what's happening though.

I still have my 1957 O level paper in front of me, one of four 2 and 1\2hr papers to be sat. Question 1 provided considerable correspondence so how about another to digest.

 Q4, Draw the graph of y = (x - 4)/(x-2)(x-6) for values of x from 0 to 8, showing carefully the behaviour of the graph as x approaches the values 2 and 6.

And from the geometry paper,

O is any point inside a triangle ABC. When produced AO,BO and CO meet BC,CA and AB in X,Y and Z respectively.

prove that BX/XC*CY/YA*AZ/ZB = 1.

If O can be so chosen that AX is a median and BY and CZ are the bisectors of the angles ABC and ACB respectively, prove that the triangle ABC is then isosceles.

In my experience this proved as difficult to do by graduate mathematicians as by Sixth form students.

I accept that this type of formal geometry has all but disappeared for reasons that are obvious but it does show how low deductive skills have been permitted to fall in the name of progress.

intuitionist1:

My nipples explode with delight.

Ah, perhaps I was mistaken in assuming that everyone was acquainted with Monty Python's "Hungarian Phrasebook" Sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao

I stand corrected. I had forgotten about that bit.

"Drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait 'til lunchtime."

Good stuff.

Of course, many times.  You know exactly who I am and it's all there on my linkedin page.  WTF are you going on and on and on about? Stop trashing conversations you saddo.