5 Maths Gems #103

Welcome to my 103^rd gems post. This is where I percentage but about of the latest news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.

1. Surds
I dearest teaching surds! Here's a prissy surds chore from Peter Drysdale‏ (@pwdrysdale). It's a multiplication tabular array alongside lots of blanks to create amount in.

2. Puzzles
If you're a fan of geometry puzzles, cheque out Ed Southall's Instagram page where he has collated all his puzzles inward ane place, in addition to continues to percentage novel puzzles on a regular basis.

And spell you're on Instagram looking at his puzzles, don't forget to follow my Instagram account too!

3. Boss Maths Non-Examples
I get-go blogged nearly Boss Maths (Gems 89. When using their site of late I noticed but about features inward their lessons that I'd non seen before. The examples in addition to non-examples are actually useful for clarifying definitions in addition to concepts.

Here's an extract from their Circumference of a Circle lesson:

And but about other extract from their Recognising in addition to using Fibonacci type sequences lesson:

4. Hooks
Julia Smith (@tessmaths) has been collecting mathematical hooks for lessons. You tin discovery them inward this padlet. Hooks are items of involvement which mightiness spark give-and-take or could last used to innovate a theme inward the maths classroom. Some of them mightiness function good for shape fourth dimension give-and-take too.

5. February Half Term Maths Challenges
Thanks to Lisa Baggaley (Gems 37.

MEM has been running take-home competitions inward Feb one-half term since the belatedly 1970s. Together, these competitions attract nearly 2,000 entries annually, alongside Challenge aimed at Years vii in addition to 8, in addition to Senior Challenge aimed at Years ix in addition to 10. H5N1 3rd competition, Open Challenge for students aged eighteen in addition to under, is organised past times Liverpool Mathematical Society.

If you lot desire your students to enter, you lot tin discovery the questions in addition to instructions here.

Update
On Midweek 13th Feb in that location is a costless DfE-funded maths conference inward Northampton for 200 master copy in addition to secondary teachers. There volition last a keynote from Andrew Jeffrey, in addition to hence secondary teachers volition attend 3 workshops in addition to a TeachMeet. The workshops are: Chris Reilly on Challenging Topics at GCSE, Peter Mattock on Mathematical Thinking in addition to me on preparing Year 11s for GCSE exams. There are even hence a few secondary spaces available hence book now if you lot desire to come.

Finally, produce cheque out the awesome maths videos in addition to animations on the website www.etudes.ru. There's loads of cool materials on this website. I especially similar the video on Reuleaux Traingles. Thanks to WTungsteno (@74WTungsteno) for sharing. Here's an extract from a video on Pi which would function good inward a get-go lesson on circumference: