Welcome
to Adrian Oldknow's Home Page
Alexander - the great - discovers
Noggin. Meanwhile Charles Clarke read Oldknow & Taylor- and then
sadly moved on. Perhaps he thought it was a load of Soddy spheres??
Welcome to my
redesigned web-site. On this page you will find some information
about recent, current and forthcoming events, as well as links around
the site and some information about me and my work:
Latest addition
: Becta have commisioned a number of articles about using ICT in
subject teaching, and I was asked to write the maths one: "It's
2008 - So what you got to offer, then? - Using ICT to put learners in
touch with mathematics".
You can download the Word file here
(3.5 Mb) or the Acrobat file here
(pdf 2.3 Mb). The ATM have also recently published my article "Cubism
and Cabri" in
Mathematics Teaching MT206. You can download the Acrobat file
here (pdf 1 Mb), a zip of associated files for Cabri II Plus and
Cabri 3D here (zip 231 kb) and a zip
of jpg image files here (zip 708 kb).
Recent talks and
conferences:
At this year’s
BETT 2008 show at London Olympia I gave two seminars on Thursday 10th
January. The first was in the Software Zone, entitled Modelling
with Cabri.
You can download the Word file here
(2Mb), and also zips of the Cabri II
Plus files (4Mb), Cabri
3D files (400kb) and their html
equivalents (1.6Mb). The second was in the Training Zone, and
was the Mathematical
Association
seminar. You can download the Word file here
(2Mb) and a zip of the associated
files (2Mb).
I have been asked to chair the NCETM’s
first conference on ICT and mathematics at the Westminster Central
Hall, London on March 12th
– see the NCETM
portal for details. I will be doing two presentations at the
joint mathematical associations’ Easter conference `Joined
Up Mathematics’
at Keele, 2nd-5th
April. I will also be giving a plenary address at the 13th
Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics ATCM
in Bangkok, December 15th-19th.
On 30th
October 2007 I gave a presentation at the French mathematics
teachers’ (APMEP) conference in Besançon and you can
download the Powerpoint of
`Les TIC en
Angleterre dans l’enseignement des mathématiques’
(1.7Mb). On 13th
October I gave a presentation `ICT
bringing science and mathematics to life’
to Belgian science teachers in Aalst and you can download the Word
document here (1.7Mb).
On 12th
October 2007 I gave a presentation at the Hand-held Learning
conference in London. The Powerpoint for `New
developments in handhelds for mathematics, science and technology
cooperation’
is available from this
link.
Current
work : The
Mathematical Association has been working with Steljes Ltd, the UK
distributor of SMARTBoards, on a set of 18 lesson ideas and resources
collected as SMART
Notebook files, with
pdf documentation. The first batch of 7 of these were launched on CD
by Steljes at BETT 2007 but are not currently available. You can
download an example
file and
accompanying pdf
document here.
We hope that shortly all these materials will be available through
the SMART
Technologies communities
website. The MA has also worked with Steljes Training to develop a
one-day professional development session on using interactive
whiteboards to enhance mathematics teaching and learning. Details can
be found at: Steljes
CPD .
The
MA and Intel worked together to design and produce free materials
aimed at KS3 mathematics (teachers and learners) - these consist of a
dynamic number line,
and an extensive mathematical
toolkit - which won the
BETT 2006 KS3/4 maths software award - a video is available from
Becta.
These are written in flash and run in a web-browser. You can download
them FREE from Skoool.co.uk
via the London Grid for Learning . A new version of the Toolkit
v.2 with a clearer user interface and with the facility to save your
work and to load preprepared files etc. was launched at BETT 2008 and
will shortly be available via the LGfL link. The LGfL also contains a
virtual
maths staffroom maintained by the MA.
The
MA advises Teachers
TV on the content of its mathematics programmes, working with the
Glasshead production company. You will need to register (free) in
order to be able to download any of the extensive library of
programmes and resource reviews. I am also working with colleagues
from the University of Chichester and the MA on the development of
the BETT 2005 award winning RM MathsAlive! from KS3 to GCSE, called
Discover
Alive. We are also working with the 3T production company on 3 of
the KS3 maths case studies as part of the DfES/Bowland
initiative.
Hampshire
LEA is running a project on using ICT to enable collaborative
cross-curricular work in maths, science, D&T and related
subjects, including Sports/PE. The project is directed by Ron Taylor,
Hampshire maths inspector, and I am very glad to be supporting it. It
is part of the Microsoft and TDA `Partners
in Learning' programme, and is based on 5 specialist schools in
the Fareham & Gosport area of Hampshire. The project has its own
website where you
can find out more about it. Materials and case studies developed
through the project will be disseminated through the Microsoft
Innovative
Teachers programme. You might be interested in applying for an
award
under that programme.
The
winner of the BETT 2007 award for secondary core subjects was Cabri
3D, with TI
SmartView as the other
shortlisted maths software. Becta have also made a video of Cabri
3D. You will
find more information about Cabri
3D, other dynamic
geometry software and TI software on other pages on this site. I have
written a 10 chapter "Cordon Bleu" cookery course on using
Cabri 3D
for the Count On
website, which is also mirrored on the MA
site. So far 5 instalments have been published. The future of the
Count On site is currently under discussion with the DfES and the
National Centre for Excellence in
Teaching Mathematics - I hope there will be more news soon about
how you can access the remaining instalements. The photos here are of
Alison Clark-Wilson and me at the BETT 2006 awards, and of Jean-Marie
Laborde - father of Cabri
- relaxing at Ronnie
Scott's after the BETT 2007 award.
I'm
also a member of the UK steering group for the Teachers Teaching with
Technology CPD programme administered by Texas Instruments. If you
want support and/or training on TI hand-held technology, such as
graphical calculators and data-loggers, and/or TI software then you
should contact T-cubed
to arrange for free on-site training. You can also borrow free of
charge any of the equipment from their Workshop
Loan Programme. You will also find useful materials such as a
booklet
and a guide to which exams
permit the use of graphical calculators.
Now
the inevitable plug for my current publications! The Interactive
Companion to Advanced Mathematics
(ICTAM) by Jean Flower, Adrian Oldknow and Linda Tetlow is published
by Longman (Pearson) - see the website at ICTAM
. It is a CD which comes either in a school/college licence version,
or a student version. The idea is that a student taking the core
AS/A2 pure units will have a teacher, a textbook and past-papers, and
probably own, or have good access, to a computer and/or graphical
calculator. The materials relate the core content to interesting and
realistic applications, and the CD contains a wealth of pre-prepared
files in Excel,
Sketchpad,
Cabri,
TI InterActive!
etc. as well as help in using graphical calculators, videos of how to
use the software packages etc. There is also a self-contained java
applet called Tool for Interactive Mathematics (TIM) with provides
the user with their own powerful graphing tool.
Teaching
Mathematics using ICT -
Oldknow & Taylor, Continuum 0-8264-7059-9 is the second edition
of our (very well reviewed) book - it is now available at £19.99
from Amazon
with free CD-ROM - as you can see above it kept the then Secretary of
State for Education, Charles Clarke, absorbed at the BETT show 2004!
About
Adrian Oldknow:
Adrian is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and
Computing Education at the University of Chichester, and visiting
fellow at the London University Institute of Education. He chairs the
Mathematical Association's ICT subcommittee, is a member of its
Professional Development Committee and a member of Council. He is
Treasurer of the Joint Mathematical Council and a member of ACME's
`Outer Circle'. Recent work includes editing the report "Teaching
and Learning Geometry 11-19" for the Royal
Society ISBN 0-85403-5656, writing the book "Teaching
Mathematics using ICT" with Ron Taylor for Continuum, editing
the MA's Guidance
in ICT and mathematics in secondary schools and producing the
Longmans ICTAM packs. He is strongly committed to making mathematics
a more exciting and interesting subject for teachers and learners,
and has particular interests in ICT, geometry, mathematical modelling
and in cross-curricular work. He also dabbles with mathematics in an
amateur fashion and has made some exciting discoveries in 2D and 3D
geometry aided by dynamic geometry software. For example, using Cabri
3D he has made some remarkable discoveries in the geometry of the
tetrahedron, working with Michael Fox, John Rigby and Sir Christopher
Zeeman - which should shortly be published. The image at the top of
the page shows a 4-ball tetrahedron with the inner and outer Soddy
spheres.
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Go
to page 7 for latest information, updates on events and links
Last update January 16th
2008 – but soon to be brought up to date!