Edtech advocate and mathematics specialist, Serge Tasic, reflects on BETT 2012, the international fair that showcases the latest technology in education. Always enthusiastic to discover the latest must-have gadgets and champion games-based learning, Serge picks out his two personal highlights: mathematics gaming site Mangahigh.com and Promethean's hotly anticipated ActivTable.

Get your students out of their chairs, moving around, and learning! Retired mathematics teacher Pat Verhoeven shares a few of her favorite "active" activities for teaching measurement, perimeter, and area.

The Flipped Professional Development initiative we're following on Planet has already moved into Phase 2 and now it's decision time for the Flipped Math Classroom project—will it continue beyond the pilot or not? Before that decision is announced, catch up on last week's highlights from the Flipped blog.

Last year proved to be a great one for Promethean Planet, with the site growing enormously in members and resources. We've got even bigger plans for 2012 and this year's theme for Planet is engagement. In his New Year message to the Planet community, Promethean's Brent Taggart explains what this means for the site and our members.

Early Years (pre-school) practitioner, Lorraine Munro, shares a wide range of activities that you can use to teach young learners about measuring.

Read a summary of last weeks' diary entries from the Flipped Math Classroom and Flipped Professional Development initiatives we're following on Planet. These include an idea for combining instructional videos with interactive flipcharts, a QR Code Scavenger Hunt project and a transcription of a question/answer session on the Flipped Math Classroom.

After watching a rebroadcast of CNN's Restoring America's Dream: Fixing Education, Planet Editor Adrienne Phillips summarizes the hard to swallow statistics and shares her thoughts on fixing what is often referred to as the "broken education system" in America.

Mathematics adviser and IWB expert, Liz Gibbs, shares a great flipchart that uses digit cards to help young learners grow in confidence in their mathematical ability. In the article, Liz guides you through using the resource, which she designed to help 9–10 year olds prepare for 'tricky' questions on their statutory tests.

Last week, the Flipped group focused on Flipped Professional Development. Read the highlights in this summary article, including a collaboration technique for a music composition project, how an instructional video is helping teachers to use Google Docs, ideas for a social studies journaling project and a recap of the Flipped PD experience over the past few months.

This Christmas, ICT enthusiast Serge Tasic let his three-year-old nephew loose with his iPad. The results were some wonderfully insightful observations about how young learners explore and learn from technology. This led Serge to question whether there are enough apps on the market to satisfy all types of exploratory minds; what do you think?