Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

misskool

ok, both lydia and zag can answer this.

How do I write a sensible learning objective? How detailed do they have to be???

LydiaJ

misskool wrote: »

ok, both lydia and zag can answer this.

How do I write a sensible learning objective? How detailed do they have to be???

They're more detailed and specific for younger kids and less detailed the higher up the educational tree you get. So for year 7 we have objectives that say that they should learn how to draw a normal on a ray diagram, and that angle of incidence = angle of reflection, whereas for year 13 the exam boards set objectives that say they should understand uses and risks of different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

This feels very strange....I get to decide what I want to teach arbitrarily. you have standards and things to achieve yet I'm being trained to teach while I'm sorting this out. Got to be a better way of doing this...

edit to add: this is part of a PGCertHE

This might be something a manager's for. Do you have one you could ask?

I've always taught stuff I chose/decided.... but if you're teaching people you need to know what they are to achieve. Then you can break that down into the steps to get from "nothing" to "destination".

If you don't know where you're ending up, you can't plot the progress.

Might as well just show them slideshows of your holidays for 8 weeks.

PasturesNew

I've been used to shops running out, not shops having good reductions!

That'd be a whole new world for me .... finding good reductions with some consistency.

Most shops would run out of bread before 11am as they seemed incapable of stocking up for the variable visitor numbers.... and just stocked for the locals' needs. Come one random hot weekend and all the B&Bs would be in there clearing the place out of anything useful.

michaels

Waitrose is the other side of town, there are 2 big sains (one 24hour), a 24 hour Tesco and Asda and a Morrisons closer - plus numerous Tesco/Sains locals so we never get to Waitrose although it sounds like I amy need to work a trip close to closing time in on my supemarket travels.

I have an O2 sim I don't use (gets me £5 off the broadband) and DW has just switched to them so it sounds like pizza from zizzis tomorrow. I also got emailed the ebay vouvher - the day after I had spent 270 quid on ebay and I don't think the cashback tracked either.

Today I have been builders errand boy plus done a lot of my chores, school taxi and just finished putting first coat on the guest room. Executive decision: 2 coats will be enough!

Builders are not going to have half finished kitchen by end of Friday. I think I need to re-target them to having the floor down as I reckon given a floor we can have the birthday party on Saturday.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

They do do good reductions, I once got basically half a cow in there for £1, reduced from something ludicrous like £25.

The best thing about Waitrose is the little hand scanner thing which means you don't have to queue at the till.

Our waitrose does stunning reductions, but some of the locals are better at spotting the right moment than I am. When I'm heading to the shop and the customers are leavin with bulging bags of stickered bargains, my heart sinks.

Anyway, all your birthdays should be in this number here (I've already found mine):)

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

Our waitrose does stunning reductions, but some of the locals are better at spotting the right moment than I am. When I'm heading to the shop and the customers are leavin with bulging bags of stickered bargains, my heart sinks.

Anyway, all your birthdays should be in this number here (I've already found mine):)

Surely any series of digits that it is possible to write down will appear at some point in pi?

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

Our waitrose does stunning reductions, but some of the locals are better at spotting the right moment than I am. When I'm heading to the shop and the customers are leavin with bulging bags of stickered bargains, my heart sinks.

Anyway, all your birthdays should be in this number here (I've already found mine):)

I found 141182 starting at this location in PI: 106471

ETA: Both DD's come up with 4 digits. We both come up with 6 digits.

CK

PasturesNew

I knew the first guy to hand-calculate it to half a million places (he's dead now, but he also wrote all those index tables you get in maths for sin/cos/tan/etc). Here's 1million
http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/index31415.html

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Surely any series of digits that it is possible to write down will appear at some point in pi?

That's quite likely but we only know the first "bit" of pi.

The site only checks the known region of it. A four-digit number sequence has every chance of turning up in that region, a five-digit one less so and six-digit ones more rarely. I don't know how many digits a sequence would have to have to not be found.

IIRC, several scifi /fantasy stories (e.g Carl Sagan's Contact) are based on scientists/finding messages being buried in pi and other irrational numbers.

Rudy Rucker's Infinity and The Mind covers some aspects of this