5 Maths Gems #117

Welcome to my 117^th gems post. This is where I part some of the latest news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.

1. Ratio 
My favourite maths blogger Paul Rowlandson has written some other brilliant blog post - this i looks at diverse ways of thinking nearly how to brand functions in addition to equations out of pairs of equivalent ratios.

2. Berwick Maths
Joe Berwick (@BerwickMaths) launched a novel website berwickmaths.com where he shares the worked examples he uses inwards lessons from Key Stage 3 upwards to Key Stage 5. Read the homepage in addition to Joe's blog for to a greater extent than information on what it's all about.

3. Interleaving

Jason Steele (@steelemaths) shared a ready of tasks where topics are interleaved - for instance the chore below is nearly expanding in addition to simplifying but likewise gives students the chance to revisit fraction operations. You tin download this from TES. Check out Jason's Twitter feed for to a greater extent than of his resources.

4. Normal Distribution
Holly Morgan (@Hollymog) made a Fill inwards the Gaps activity for standardising normal distribution.  It's corking to meet these ideas inwards usage at H5N1 level.

If you're looking for some actually challenging normal distribution questions to assay your brightest Year 13s in addition to hence endeavour searching for 'normal' inwards the STEP database.

5. New Lesson Resources
In my concluding gems post I featured some novel resources from TES writer cparkinson3 (@CP3fxy). He has immediately shared 12 lessons on shape transformations.

Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) shared a dyad of corking lessons for teaching equations of parallel lines in addition to equations of perpendicular lines.

These resources receive got been added to my resources libraries.

Update
I'm ridiculously lucky to piece of job at a schoolhouse alongside a ii calendar week Oct half-term. It's a game changer.

On twelfth Oct I went to #mathsconf21 inwards Peterborough. As always, it was lovely to grab upwards alongside hence many maths teachers. Here's me in addition to Sheena (@Sheena2907) inwards matching maths dresses from Popsy:

I presented on the Calculator Crisis. If you lot attended that speak in addition to hence you lot tin download my slides blog post - this i looks at diverse ways of thinking nearly how to brand functions in addition to equations out of pairs of equivalent ratios.

2. Berwick Maths
Joe Berwick (@BerwickMaths) launched a novel website berwickmaths.com where he shares the worked examples he uses inwards lessons from Key Stage 3 upwards to Key Stage 5. Read the homepage in addition to Joe's blog for to a greater extent than information on what it's all about.

3. Interleaving

Jason Steele (@steelemaths) shared a ready of tasks where topics are interleaved - for instance the chore below is nearly expanding in addition to simplifying but likewise gives students the chance to revisit fraction operations. You tin download this from TES. Check out Jason's Twitter feed for to a greater extent than of his resources.

4. Normal Distribution
Holly Morgan (@Hollymog) made a Fill inwards the Gaps activity for standardising normal distribution.  It's corking to meet these ideas inwards usage at H5N1 level.

If you're looking for some actually challenging normal distribution questions to assay your brightest Year 13s in addition to hence endeavour searching for 'normal' inwards the STEP database.

5. New Lesson Resources
In my concluding events page for maths pedagogy conferences inwards 2019/20.

The Peterborough conference was the solar daytime afterward the Harris Federation Oct Conference at the ExCeL Centre inwards London. Here I am alongside 3 out of my iv maths colleagues from Harris Academy Sutton (yes, nosotros are currently an all-female maths department!):

In the starting fourth dimension component subdivision of my half-term intermission I had a lovely chilled out calendar week at dwelling identify alongside my daughters. The instant calendar week of half-term (when my daughters were dorsum at school) was total on. Craig Barton in addition to I ran ii Marvellous Maths courses (one at my schoolhouse in addition to i inwards Halifax) in addition to I likewise spent an afternoon recording ii of my Topics inwards Depth workshops, video-podcast style, at the TES offices inwards Sheffield.

Marvellous Maths was a lot of fun to run. Thank you lot to all the 200+ delegates who joined us. I promised I'd part my presentations, which you lot tin download here. H5N1 lot of you lot were shout out for for a re-create of the brilliant AQA quiz - you lot tin download it here in addition to the answers are here.

Thank you lot to everyone who supported us this week. It was the starting fourth dimension time Craig in addition to I had run our ain course. We felt it went good hence nosotros mightiness create it i time again adjacent year. Special thank you lot to AQA, John Catt, White Rose, the MA in addition to Izak9. Primary in addition to prep schoolhouse teachers should banking corporation check out Izak9 (@AbacusandHelix) - actually interesting classroom resources that I'd never seen before.

Finally, an update on some recent posts in addition to some things that are coming up:

• I blogged nearly the blog post - this i looks at diverse ways of thinking nearly how to brand functions in addition to equations out of pairs of equivalent ratios.
  
  
  2. Berwick Maths
  Joe Berwick (@BerwickMaths) launched a novel website berwickmaths.com where he shares the worked examples he uses inwards lessons from Key Stage 3 upwards to Key Stage 5. Read the homepage in addition to Joe's blog for to a greater extent than information on what it's all about.
  
  
  3. Interleaving
  Jason Steele (@steelemaths) shared a ready of tasks where topics are interleaved - for instance the chore below is nearly expanding in addition to simplifying but likewise gives students the chance to revisit fraction operations. You tin download this from TES. Check out Jason's Twitter feed for to a greater extent than of his resources.
  
  
  
  4. Normal Distribution
  Holly Morgan (@Hollymog) made a Fill inwards the Gaps activity for standardising normal distribution.  It's corking to meet these ideas inwards usage at H5N1 level.
  
  
  If you're looking for some actually challenging normal distribution questions to assay your brightest Year 13s in addition to hence endeavour searching for 'normal' inwards the STEP database.
  
  5. New Lesson Resources
  In my concluding MA Easter Conference (which I'm actually excited about!), blog post - this i looks at diverse ways of thinking nearly how to brand functions in addition to equations out of pairs of equivalent ratios.
  
  
  2. Berwick Maths
  Joe Berwick (@BerwickMaths) launched a novel website berwickmaths.com where he shares the worked examples he uses inwards lessons from Key Stage 3 upwards to Key Stage 5. Read the homepage in addition to Joe's blog for to a greater extent than information on what it's all about.
  
  
  3. Interleaving
  Jason Steele (@steelemaths) shared a ready of tasks where topics are interleaved - for instance the chore below is nearly expanding in addition to simplifying but likewise gives students the chance to revisit fraction operations. You tin download this from TES. Check out Jason's Twitter feed for to a greater extent than of his resources.
  
  
  
  4. Normal Distribution
  Holly Morgan (@Hollymog) made a Fill inwards the Gaps activity for standardising normal distribution.  It's corking to meet these ideas inwards usage at H5N1 level.
  
  
  If you're looking for some actually challenging normal distribution questions to assay your brightest Year 13s in addition to hence endeavour searching for 'normal' inwards the STEP database.
  
  5. New Lesson Resources
  In my concluding reflections from my provide to Key Stage 3 teaching, in addition to my dad. 

• It's Maths Week England on 11th - 16th November.  There are a issue of competitions that your students tin learn involved in, listed here. For instance MEI are running a Desmos Maths Art contest - students in addition to teachers tin win a Desmos T-shirt in addition to a pizza political party for their class. 

• Have you lot visited Don Steward's website recently? He's been posting lots of lovely novel tasks. 

• At solely £1.99  for many hours of maths entertainment, you'd endure crazy non to download MEI's Sumaze! Adventure app. Like the other Sumaze! apps, it's brilliant.

• Cambridge Maths launched a novel app called Define It. Every calendar week they seat out a mathematical discussion alongside several possible definitions for you lot to rate. They desire users to aid them honor the best definitions.

• I'm rattling excited nearly Big MathsJam which takes identify iv weeks today. It is my favourite effect of the year. And non merely because the nutrient is hence good.

• My majority is even hence inwards production but I'm hopeful it volition endure out earlier Christmas (fingers crossed!). You tin social club it in addition to read early on reviews here.