Welcome to my 100th gems post!This is a big milestone for me. I've published 327 posts since I started writing my weblog 4 as well as a one-half years ago. One hundred of those posts accept been role of my 'Maths Gems' serial - each 1 has featured a choice of news, ideas as well as resources for maths teachers.
I used to write 1 gems post a calendar week (I was on motherhood leave!) but straightaway I move full-time I solely deal 1 or 2 gems posts a month. Twitter nonetheless provides a constant stream of cloth to pick from, as well as thence I proceed to summarise as well as portion some of the best ideas, inward the promise that I tin larn these ideas into classrooms all over the world.
To celebrate the fact that this is my 100th gems post, I'll endure recording a exceptional podcast alongside Craig Barton adjacent weekend. In grooming for this podcast Craig wants y'all to pick out your favourite precious rock (there are 500 to pick out from, all indexed here). Tweet, DM or electronic mail Craig (or comment below) to explicate why y'all chose it, as well as it could destination upwardly on the show.
On alongside the gems...
1. Mastery Learning Cycle
Over the course of teaching of the final 2 years Mark McCourt (@EmathsUK) has published a series of posts on mastery. You must read these fantabulous posts if y'all haven't already! Oliver Caviglioli (@olicav) as well as Mark accept worked together to do a poster which visualises Mark's model of the Mastery Learning Cycle.
No uncertainty Mark's majority 'Teaching for Mastery', due to endure published inward Spring 2019, volition endure a must-read too.
2. Manipulatives
If y'all desire to usage manipulatives inward your teaching but don't know where to start, Craig Barton as well as Bernie Westacott accept recorded a video podcast that y'all volition notice really useful. You tin access the videos through Craig's Youtube playlist. For representative hither Bernie explains how to usage manipulatives to learn negative numbers:
I've blogged earlier almost Jonathan Hall's (@StudyMaths) amazing library of virtual manipulatives. It has continued to grow.
Miss Konstantine (task for exploring indices. Students variety the cards as well as notice the strange 1 out.
I can't maintain upwardly alongside all the ideas as well as resources that Miss Konstantine (@GiftedBA) has been sharing lately! For representative I enjoyed her recent perimeter problems. Check out her Twitter feed as well as weblog for lots to a greater extent than peachy stuff.
Speaking of indices, I made an indices trace of piece of work for a recent Teach Secondary article. This resources is designed to endure used alongside a Year seven flat afterward spending some fourth dimension on index notation, but it would move alongside other yr groups too. The total resources is here - it contains 4 introductory indices activities.
4. Area
Here's a overnice thought to assist students develop an agreement of what surface area is. Ilona Vashchyshyn (@vaslona) challenged her students to write their bring upwardly as well as thence that it covers an surface area of just 100cm2. Read the thread for ideas on how to extend this activity.
5. Assessment and Questioning
Mrs Budak (@mrsbudak) tweeted an interesting thought from @teacher2teacher that could move inward every subject. At the destination of an assessment students are given the chance to write downwards everything else they know almost the topics on the test. It stops students beingness frustrated when a exam doesn't embrace the things they revised, as well as it's belike a practiced usage of fourth dimension to retrieve materials from one's retention as well as write it downwards (it definitely beats sitting in that place waiting for the exam to end!).
Finally, for some argue this reminded me of some other precious rock that I've been important to portion for ages...
It such a elementary thought petty change, as well as and thence slow to do! It's worth reading the thread for give-and-take as well as ideas. Credit to Howie Hua (@howie_hua) for outset tweeting almost this dorsum inward May. Here's some other of Howie's ideas:
Update
I've had a busy few weeks visiting a issue of dissimilar schools, including 1 where I saw soundless instructor inward activeness for the outset time.
I helped to run the outset hateful solar daytime of a novel London-wide Maths Hub Work Group on developing H5N1 flat pedagogy, which is led past times Carlos Karingal. We were fortunate to accept a fantastic grouping of teachers attend as well as I hold off forwards to seeing how our H5N1 flat teaching develops throughout the year. In my session I talked through some of the ideas inward this fantabulous piece written by Chris McGrane about approaches to teaching calculus.
Next calendar week I'll endure supporting Chris Reilly inward running some other Maths Hub Work Group - Challenging Topics at GCSE. I'll weblog almost this soon.
My 2nd Teach Secondary article is straightaway available to read online. It's almost lodge of operations, as well as opportunities to interleave this topic alongside fractions, decimals as well as algebra.
Did y'all run into that Pearson accept a novel serial of maths textbooks coming out? It's called Purposeful Practice as well as y'all tin persuasion sample pages here.
Finally, Christmas is fast approaching as well as thence y'all mightiness notice a usage for my collections of seasonal resources (here and here) - some are topic based as well as some are for enrichment. I've written diverse posts almost Christmas presents for maths teachers over the years (here is final year's post on TeachWire if you're looking for inspiration). If y'all desire to process yourself during December, the MA has a Christmas advent calendar where y'all tin larn daily discounts on MA books.
I'll move out y'all alongside this lovely work shared past times James from MathsPad (@MathsPadJames). There are a attain of solutions inward the comments (spoiler alert!), but it tin endure solved inward a thing of seconds without whatsoever workings using GCSE flat maths.
Here's a overnice thought to assist students develop an agreement of what surface area is. Ilona Vashchyshyn (@vaslona) challenged her students to write their bring upwardly as well as thence that it covers an surface area of just 100cm2. Read the thread for ideas on how to extend this activity.
The challenge: Write your bring upwardly as well as thence that it covers an surface area of just 100 cm squared.— Ilona Vashchyshyn (@vaslona) 16 Nov 2018
Love the dissimilar strategies students used here. E.g. Leia, who chose to brand each missive of the alphabet 25 cm^2. Notice the revisions on the A.#mathchat #MTBoS Cc @PaiMath pic.twitter.com/FowEQoL4I6
5. Assessment and Questioning
Mrs Budak (@mrsbudak) tweeted an interesting thought from @teacher2teacher that could move inward every subject. At the destination of an assessment students are given the chance to write downwards everything else they know almost the topics on the test. It stops students beingness frustrated when a exam doesn't embrace the things they revised, as well as it's belike a practiced usage of fourth dimension to retrieve materials from one's retention as well as write it downwards (it definitely beats sitting in that place waiting for the exam to end!).
Finally, for some argue this reminded me of some other precious rock that I've been important to portion for ages...
Two years ago, I was proverb “do y'all accept whatsoever questions?”. Last yr I switched to “what questions do y'all have?” It made a difference. Today I tried “ask me 2 questions”. And they did! And those ?s led to to a greater extent than ?s. It amazes me that the littlest things accept such a big impact!— Andre Sasser (@MrsSasser) 27 August 2018
It such a elementary thought petty change, as well as and thence slow to do! It's worth reading the thread for give-and-take as well as ideas. Credit to Howie Hua (@howie_hua) for outset tweeting almost this dorsum inward May. Here's some other of Howie's ideas:
For tests, I dedicate the outset v minutes to accept students concord the tests as well as utter to their grouping almost strategies (w/out pencils). This lowers their exam anxiety AND when y'all walk around, y'all remove heed some of the richest math conversations. #iteachmath— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) 28 September 2018
Update
I've had a busy few weeks visiting a issue of dissimilar schools, including 1 where I saw soundless instructor inward activeness for the outset time.
I helped to run the outset hateful solar daytime of a novel London-wide Maths Hub Work Group on developing H5N1 flat pedagogy, which is led past times Carlos Karingal. We were fortunate to accept a fantastic grouping of teachers attend as well as I hold off forwards to seeing how our H5N1 flat teaching develops throughout the year. In my session I talked through some of the ideas inward this fantabulous piece written by Chris McGrane about approaches to teaching calculus.
Next calendar week I'll endure supporting Chris Reilly inward running some other Maths Hub Work Group - Challenging Topics at GCSE. I'll weblog almost this soon.
My 2nd Teach Secondary article is straightaway available to read online. It's almost lodge of operations, as well as opportunities to interleave this topic alongside fractions, decimals as well as algebra.
Finally, Christmas is fast approaching as well as thence y'all mightiness notice a usage for my collections of seasonal resources (here and here) - some are topic based as well as some are for enrichment. I've written diverse posts almost Christmas presents for maths teachers over the years (here is final year's post on TeachWire if you're looking for inspiration). If y'all desire to process yourself during December, the MA has a Christmas advent calendar where y'all tin larn daily discounts on MA books.
I'll move out y'all alongside this lovely work shared past times James from MathsPad (@MathsPadJames). There are a attain of solutions inward the comments (spoiler alert!), but it tin endure solved inward a thing of seconds without whatsoever workings using GCSE flat maths.
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