Recent presentation: Mental Rotation Skills
I gave two paper presentations recently at the BSRLM day conference in Brighton. Abstracts and slides are below. Bokhove, Christian* & Redhead, Ed University of Southampton c.bokhove@soton.ac.uk @cbokhove Training mental … Continue reading
Recent presentation: digital books for creativity
I gave two paper presentations recently at the BSRLM day conference in Brighton. Abstracts and slides are below. Geraniou, Eirini*, Bokhove, Christian* & Mavrikis, Manolis UCL Institute of Education, University … Continue reading
Games in maths education
This is a translation of a review that appeared a while back in Dutch in the journal of the Mathematical Society (KWG) in the Netherlands. I wasn’t able to always … Continue reading
Wuzzit trouble for Android
Since begin November there is an Android version of Wuzzit trouble in the Play store. I assume it’s the same as the iOS one. A blog post about the game … Continue reading
Graphical calculator vs Online
Inspired by this blogpost: The CASIO graphical calculator FX-9860G SD emulator, still in use is some classrooms in the Netherlands, on the left for y=sin(1/x), an online tool on the … Continue reading
Software for geometric proofs in secondary schools
A week ago I attended a seminar at the School of Education with visitors from Japan. One of the visitors was Professor Mikio Miyazaki. He showcased some of his work … Continue reading
Mitra, genius or?
I’m getting increasingly more annoyed by the rhetoric surrounding Self Organized Learning. Steve Wheeler poses the black-and-white question about Sugata Mitra: is he a genius or a charlatan ? A … Continue reading
More on Openbadges
I seem to get involved into many #openbadges discussions on Twitter lately. A while back I wrote on my blog about this topic. I think it was quite well-balanced, acknowledging … Continue reading
Convenience tooling
In research we often refer to ‘convenience sampling’ as sampling where subjects are selected because of their convenient accessibility and proximity to the researcher. The most obvious criticism is sample … Continue reading
Following #octel
OK, so I’m not the type of person who likes to keep long personal logs or elaborate mindmaps of my thoughts. I prefer short 140 character tweets. I followed quite … Continue reading
