Two great online sites for you to enjoy!

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm  is a terrific free resource for all primary teachers and teachers to Year 8.

http://wwwprodigygame.com is a hybrid combining the likes of Club Penguin [without the spam] with Mathletics.

Thinking about our personal philosophy of teaching GTC children

Following the Odense conference one train of thought nagged at me; what was my ongoing commitment to teaching GTC people? Should teachers hold themselves to flexible or inflexible tenets that guide their methodologies?

This article, Mystery to Mastery: Shifting Paradigms in Gifted Education" by Matthews and Foster (featured in the Roeper Review, 2005) neatly summarises both the development of GTC teaching theory and allows teachers to develop their own philosophies with their reflections.

Abstract, from Taylor and Francis http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02783190609554340#.Vfo_yRGqqko 
The full text is available from here.

Abstract

We provide here a brief historical analysis of a movement in progress from a belief‐based “mystery” model to an evidence‐based “mastery” model of giftedness and talent development. We have observed that educators concerned about exceptionally capable learners are moving from a categorical notion of “the typical gifted child” with somewhat mysteriously defined attributes and learning needs, toward the perspective that some children have exceptionally advanced learning needs that require more flexibly responsive educational attention. We discuss factors that differentiate the two models, and observe some benefits of the shifting paradigm, arguing that by conceptualizing gifted education as providing a dynamically responsive educational match for students who otherwise experience a mismatch with the curriculum normally provided, the mastery model is socially, educationally, and politically more defensible. We discuss some practical implications of this shift in perspective.