5 Maths Gems #57

This is my 57^th update from the basis of Maths EduTwitter. If you're non a tweeter, or if you're wondering whether you've missed anything, here's a summary of to a greater extent than or less of the latest ideas too resources for instruction maths.

1. Artful Maths
Clarissa Grandi (@c0mplexnumber) has created the delightful website artfulmaths.com. It provides resources too inspiration thus that children tin dismiss sense the beauty of mathematics. There's a large department on how to deliver arty maths lessons on topics such equally Celtic Knotwork, Mazes too Labyrinths, too Insect Symmetry. There's likewise display ideas for maths classrooms, guidance on running an origami club, recommendations of puzzle games too lots more. Do cheque it out.

2. GCSE Paper 2
This precious rock has a express shelf life but is withal worth sharing for those of y'all who run across (or email) your Year 11s betwixt at nowadays too their minute GCSE newspaper on Thursday. Numerous helpful teachers convey created 'best guess' papers for the upcoming exam, based on the topics that came upward inward Paper 1. Superstar Emma Bell (@EJmaths) has collated them here. The collection covers both Higher too Foundation for Edexcel, OCR too AQA. It's good worth sharing the relevant papers amongst your students thus they tin dismiss focus their examination grooming on the topics that are most probable to last tested.

Some of these papers are from novel website onmaths.com - this website forthwith marks students' answers thus is peculiarly useful for independent study. Thanks to Nikki (@mathszest) for starting fourth dimension making me aware of this website.

3. Odd + Odd 

I but beloved this cute 'proof' shared by @ProfSmudge.

4. Maths Quickies
The Twitter account @MathsMastery tweets a daily #MathsQuickie like the illustration shown below.

Thanks to Mark Greenaway (@suffolkmaths) for pulling together these questions (and their answers) inward PDFs too PowerPoints - they tin dismiss last downloaded here. 

5. Parallel Lines
Don Steward has shared yet to a greater extent than or less other fantastic resources on his wonderful weblog Median. His PowerPoint too tasks for angles inward parallel lines are excellent.

Update

If you're doing whatever revision amongst GCSE, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grade or Certificate of Further Maths students over the coming weeks, create cheque out my growing collection of revision clocks.

If you're currently instruction Year 10 too thus y'all mightiness last interested inward my recent post: Useful GCSE Questions from Linked Pair Papers.

Tom Bennison's summertime number for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grade teachers at nowadays has a website. The East Midlands KS5 Mathematics Day is on ninth August 2016 - it looks similar an first-class number too I promise to run across y'all there.

Have y'all signed @MathsMrCox's petition to demonstrate your opposition to the proposed Year vii SATs resits yet? It's of import that nosotros create whatever nosotros tin dismiss to brand our views known, rather than stand upward dorsum too grumble virtually bad conclusion making. Please sign!

I've had a lovely one-half term celebrating my youngest daughter's minute birthday. We were really lucky to create goodness from a gratis trip to Legoland, inward render for having a quick await at their maths schoolhouse trips. I was hugely impressed yesteryear the workshop nosotros saw (they got my four yr one-time programming robots!) too volition write a weblog post virtually it soon. Although a household unit of measurement solar daytime out at Legoland is rather pricey, the schoolhouse trips are really reasonably priced.

I'll exit y'all amongst this lovely puzzle from @YohakuPuzzle. Fill inward the cells amongst dissimilar factors to learn the products inward each row/column.