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So Ed Balls is to abandon National Strategies. I am glad that I never went down that path, preferring to stick with topic and level based access to material.
Living Worksheets provides a huge teacher led resource, now well over 5000 interactive applications that run in a browser interface that can easily be accessed via the internet in the same way as over a network without the need to download any material into a VLE.
My aim as a practical and experienced teacher has been to provide a wide ranging resource of interactive material that supports and motivates both teachers and students.
The feedback that I get from many of the 400 sites using the material confirms that. Compilations cover the educational needs in a vaste range of situations whether it be Primary Schools, Prisons or Colleges of FE to name but three.
Now adding a small range of timed self-tests for simple situations, aimed at helping to improve recall. I am also extending the range of KS5 material available.
If you have secure Online access for students an E licence allows Living Worksheets to be accessed from your server by a single link.
Living worksheets are not just interactive worksheets. There is a huge range of other material in the way of interactive puzzles, problems and tools. Many of these are set up for particular situations and diagrams are controlled by variable input as are some of the associated questions.
Very simple to set up.
Check the new file lists now and then.
Some IGCSE specific material now included in SLW4P and SLW4PS3 as well as some new KS5 applications.
Information: PDF file PR
Mono versions of Worksheets, (black and grey text and diagrams on a white background), now completed and available. These have a pale yellow surround outside the working sheet.
Reading distance tables Monochrome version.
Small exploration tool. Intersection of y=x and y=mx+c Monochrome version.
Upgrade for the price difference of your existing compilation.
Euro versions that will run with Excel® set up for countries using a decimal comma and € for currency questions.
Available as two compilations MLW4S2P1EU and SLW4S3P3EU
Open text boxes now added to all worksheets as well as Lesson Starters for localization purposes.
Aimed at those teaching mathematics using English with Excel® set up in a country's native format.
Pricing structure for Primary Schools (PLW4/S1/P) based on number of KS2 pupils onsite.
High Schools. Loci startsheets. Example . . shows another way of using Microsoft Excel® is.
Please use the email link below for support or questions.
Please indicate clearly in the subject line the nature of the request, with Living Worksheets included.
Please be aware that Living Worksheets deal with schools direct, not through resellers.
All files now .xls and updated to run under both Windows and UNIX.
All prices quoted are one off payments for site licenses.
Website sample files now updated.
E licences now available. These permit a school to also make the material available to their students online from their own secure site.
UK Order form RTF version
Minimum hardware and software requirements to use Living Worksheets.
PC with Pentium 166, 64MB Ram, Explorer V6, Windows® 98 and Microsoft® Office 97 (Excel 8) or above.
The material has been tested with MS Vista® and Office 2007®. There are some known issues with graphics refresh rates with Excel® 2007.
Loss of some compatability with earlier versions of Excel means some of the information panels to the right of existing Lesson Starters do not display in Excel 2007.
New versions have now been modified and updated.
Current license holders of versions 4, (see below), who are upgrading to Excel 2007 email to be put on the update list.
LWS3, SLW4S3, SLW4S3P, MLW4S2, MLW4S2P, PLW4S1 and PLW4S1P
Middle Schools: Added more level 5 and level 6 material to LWS1 to make LWS2 (Now 780 Lesson Starters for IWB use).
MLW4S2 and MLW4S2P have replaced MLWS1 and MLW4S1P
ACME Conference
Lots of discussion ensued with many points made by teachers expressing real concerns felt about implementing the proposed changes to the 14 to 19 mathematics pathways.
If you are a SMARTboard user dont forget to update your software now and then.
A one off E licence costs about 30% more than the standard site only licence. Upgrade for the difference between that and your current spend.
A comprehensive self-checking revision and practise resource that many of your students could freely access at home.
Single file loader included. Access by entering the name of the file needed.
Dynamic shape puzzles in P versions Complete the rhombus . . Excel needed, 77kb.
Price structure Down load RTF order form/price structure
Please indicate on order form if using eLCs.
Living Worksheets are not suited for use with OPEN OFFICE.
Sheets have to be secure so only some cells are open, visible and active. Read only in Microsoft terms means the file cannot be overwritten, in Open Office Scalc it means that the file itself is locked and does not respond to input.
There is a way round it within Scalc itself, in that a copy can be opened for editing, but much of the formatting does not display correctly and anything using graphing functions and macros will not work.
Symbol font in Apple Mac with newer OSX now uses Unicode. This means it no longer has the same ASC codes as the PC version, so negates lots of work put in to make LW run on both platforms.
Is there a user site near you? View List of Sites
RMCC3 install instructions on update page, also note for any Ranger user.
When ordering, Roll number refers to the whole site, not a subset. Please send the completed order form with the official order.
Improved graphics with Transformations.
Includes new dynamic startsheets. Translation Example . . Excel needed.
Press release: PDF file 170KB PR
Colour flyer: PDF file 80KB PR2
The software is very easy to install on a network. Drag one folder to required destination on the server. Put a shortcut to one file within it to user areas. No setting up paths needed.
If you have an earlier version SLW3R1, SLW3R2 or SLW3R2S1 email for upgrade quote. Lots of new material.
Upgrades are be available for the price differential and a small covering fee.
Some KS5 material included in SLW4P as KS4+
Excel XP users need macro protection to be preset to medium.
Email request details for other upgrades or situations not covered by the published pricing structure.
If upgrading to Windows XP the macro security protection from within Excel will need presetting to medium to allow the file finder to execute.
Remind yourself of the process when re-installing by checking the RM installation sheet available on the updates page or viewing the file below.
View macro security setting page: XP Macro Security
Tables ramble Prompted by a question from a past pupil who is now a parent.
John