Saturday, January 25, 2020

5 Maths Gems #41

Hello together with welcome to my 41st gems post. It's been ages since my final gems post, but I bring a proficient excuse! I've been utterly snowed nether alongside run and I've also been preoccupied alongside a real exciting project... I'm organising a Christmaths Party together with it's going to hold upward awesome. Details volition hold upward announced real soon. In the hateful time, here's some overnice ideas together with resources that bring been shared on Twitter over the final few weeks.

1. Rugby
In instance you lot hadn't noticed, the Rugby World Cup is inwards total swing. My students are actually into it. I used the stadium capacity infographic below (shared yesteryear @amberlee902) inwards a lesson on important figures.
I similar this rugby enquiry from @thecmsp, which is aimed at post-16 students studying Core Maths. Thanks to my colleague @MissStokesMaths for showing me this one.
I also spotted the infographic below on mathsandelearning.wikispaces.com - this is a dandy teaching tool for pictographs. You could inquire your students what each symbol represents numerically.
2. Resources for high attainers
I read a post called 'My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.

There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.  

3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from maths-starters.co.uk - the illustration below is laid to the laissez passer on difficulty level!
4. Powers of Ten
This Powers of Ten Maze is from Teachit Maths. It's a actually overnice resources for practising a primal skill. 
5. Ten Commandments
I honey My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.

There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.  

3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from this post from Sarah Hagan (@mathequalslove) close some dandy ideas she saw on Twitter. It includes the awesome Ten Commandments of Mathematics pictured below, which is from Mrs Anderson (@MissPools).
I also similar this My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.

There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.  

3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from write-up of my solar daytime at #mathsconf5
  • A My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.

  • There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.  

    3. Skills Check
    Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
    Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from reflection on my curt fourth dimension teaching Foundation GCSE
  • Two posts close H5N1 flat resources (My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.

  • There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.  

    3. Skills Check
    Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
    Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from A Level Resources and My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.

    There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.  

    3. Skills Check
    Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
    Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from A Level Resources #2). I was pleased to run into that Susan Ward (@suzekward), who attended my workshop at #mathsconf5, successfully used 1 of the resources I recommended:
    Here's some other bits together with pieces that you lot powerfulness bring missed: 
    • AQA shared some fantabulous editable Key Stage iii tests.
    • La Salle shared a gratis problem solving booklet which contains some lovely accessible problems.
    • Michael Tidd's postal service close changes to the Primary Maths curriculum is right away a TES article. Please read it if you lot haven't already - it's of import data for secondary maths teachers.
    • I enjoyed teaching surds to Year 10 final calendar week together with specially liked this novel surds puzzle from MathsPad:
    • I'm pleased to run into that loads of schools bring been using my 'Design a Clock' thought which featured inwards my My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.

    There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.  

    3. Skills Check
    Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
    Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from Open Evening post.
  • I started teaching a novel Year eleven degree final calendar week together with enjoyed making some other expectations video using VideoScribe (which my subdivision right away subscribes to, pregnant I tin brand to a greater extent than videos side yesteryear side year!). 


  • Thanks for reading! I'll hold upward dorsum alongside to a greater extent than gems soon.


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