A Score Resources

At #mathsconf5 I delivered a workshop entitled 'Resources for Teaching Maths at AS Level'. I thought it mightiness live on helpful to portion highlights from that presentation here. I'm going to separate my ideas into 2 separate posts - inward today's postal service I'll listing recommended sources of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree resources. In my side yesteryear side postal service I'll utter over some ideas on how to construction Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree lessons, how to purpose resources as well as how to organise as well as portion resources.

Here's the slides as well as handout from my conference session.

My Top 10
In my workshop I talked through my favourite sources of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree resources. I narrowed it downwards to ten, but at that topographic point were many to a greater extent than I wanted to include.

1. Solomon Worksheets
I tend to purpose extracts from Solomon worksheets for starters, plenaries or extension work. For example, if I've taught quadratic inequalities as well as then the interrogation below makes a prissy starter interrogation inward the side yesteryear side lesson:

Solomon worksheets come upwardly amongst real clear worked solutions thus you lot could also give these worksheets to students for independent exercise at home. It's non helpful when teachers tell their students to do ongoing independent written report but don't supply (or betoken them inward the direction of) suitable exercise questions.

You in all likelihood direct maintain these worksheets on your network at school, if non as well as then they tin give the sack live on purchased here.

2. Activities from Susan Wall
Susan Wall is considered the queen of rich tasks at Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Level. Some of her resources are on Integral, which I'll utter well-nigh inward a infinitesimal - but some other expert means to detect her textile is to search for 'Susan Wall' inward the National STEM Centre eLibrary.

Have a become at the interrogation below. It may alone accept you lot a minute, but it's an fantabulous interrogation for students who detect this notation tricky (plus anything that involves graph sketching is worthwhile).

I also dear Susan Wall's integration activity below. Again, this is corking for getting students to intend rather than but follow procedures.

3. Integral
Every schoolhouse should direct maintain a subscription to integralmaths.org. Provided yesteryear the MEI as well as FMSP, it's an extensive collection of notes, activities, worksheets as well as assessments for every Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree module as well as examination board. The indices maze below is but ane instance of MEI/FMSP textile - there's a huge diversity of resources on Integral thus it's worth spending a 24-hour interval inward the holidays exploring.

This guide provides detailed data well-nigh the content of Integral. Another instance of an Integral activity is shown below. I dear this activity!

4. TES - SRWhitehouse

There's loads of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree resources on TES - my favourite contributor is Susan Whitehouse. I purpose her resources inward almost every lesson. I detect her materials especially useful when instruction C3 as well as C4 - you'll detect lots of links to these inward my A2 resources library.

Her indices activity (extract below) is excellent. I await that most people purpose this when instruction indices at Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree or GCSE, but it also makes a helpful starter inward a lesson on differentiating expressions amongst negative as well as fractions indices. Question vi as well as vii below frequently stimulate confusion for students - they desire to write both equally 2x^-3.

The logs activity shown below is some other instance of a Susan Whitehouse activity that I purpose regularly.

5. Teachit Maths
Teachit Maths is a corking website for Key Stage three as well as GCSE. PDF resources are available for free. Their collection of Key Stage five resources is growing. I don't frequently purpose card-based activities but I do similar their log dominoes. I've used them earlier as well as they worked well.

I similar this Pairs of Lines activity besides - it would function inward both a Higher GCSE lesson as well as inward an AS coordinate geometry lesson.

6. Mathematics Assessment Project
The materials of the Shell Centre) remind me of the Standards Unit materials (more on that inward a minute). They supply well-designed tasks for formative as well as summative assessment. Although these materials are designed for the U.S.A. curriculum, there's enough of fantabulous resources for Key Stage 3, four as well as 5. There's 2 lessons that I especially like: Sorting Equations of Circles 1 as well as Sorting Equations of Circles 2. I frequently purpose the 'Going circular inward circles' poster describe of piece of occupation (solution shown below). I purpose this when I've but taught students the equation of a circle - instead of giving them a textbook exercise, I give them this grid on A3 paper. Working inward pairs, they direct maintain to identify diverse equations of circles on the grid.

The 2nd circles lesson is also total of fantabulous tasks - an extract is shown below.

7. CMEP
We're real lucky that the Cambridge Mathematics Enhancement Project - an initiatory to prepare Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree resources - is currently producing loads of fantastic novel material. If you lot desire to access these resources field they're yet nether evolution as well as then you'll demand to register amongst CMEP (although some materials are currently available through NRICH). It won't live on long though until the total collection of CMEP resources are made available to all. Some of their materials are enrichment problems for high attainers, but there's also fluency exercises as well as scaffolded tasks. For instance I similar this 'Logarithm lattice':

as well as this 'Integral chasing' activity:

8. Don Steward
I can't utter well-nigh resources without recommending my hero Don Steward. His weblog (Median) contains rich tasks for xi - xvi yr olds, but many of his higher goal GCSE resources are suitable for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree too. Topics include algebra, quadratics, trigonometry, sequences, surds, indices, cubics, graph transformations as well as coordinate geometry. An instance is his activity 'geometric series, some amongst surds' which was designed for the novel GCSE but is suitable for C2 (Edexcel).

I've already blogged well-nigh his 'one wrong simplification' tasks which worked brilliantly on Year 12 induction day.

And here's some other typical Don Steward describe of piece of occupation - this ane is on cubics:

9. The Standards Unit
We all know as well as dear the "Improving Learning inward Mathematics" (or Standards Units) resources. There's a expert pick for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree that are good worth exploring. In the yesteryear I've ever gone right away for the resources at the back, but lately I've discovered that the lesson ideas as well as questioning prompts are also incredibly helpful.  Here's an instance from Matching Functions as well as Derivatives:

10. as well as #mathsTLP
The libraries at resourceaholic.com incorporate hundreds of links to hand-picked Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree resources. My AS Core library is ever the get-go identify I depository fiscal establishment jibe when planning a C1 or C2 lesson. Resources are grouped yesteryear topic. The extract below is from a 'Fun Sheet' (I can't detect a re-create of the master mass it came from) - it's a lovely activity for simplifying uncomplicated trigonometric expressions earlier coming together trigonometric identities.

On my weblog you'll also detect lots of Introducing Differentiation, Algebraic Division, Radians, Logs as well as Factorising Harder Quadratics. I frequently characteristic Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree ideas inward my Gems posts besides - here's ane from John Smith.

Finally, #mathsTLP is every Dominicus eve 7pm - 8pm. This is a Twitter chat inward which lesson ideas as well as resources are shared. Join inward to inquire for assist or offering ideas. This is the kind of affair you lot mightiness tweet:

More sources
I used to intend that at that topographic point weren't many Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree resources around, but it turns out there's enough out there. Every schoolhouse needs a difficult working Key Stage five Coordinator to come upwardly into schoolhouse during the holidays as well as pass a 24-hour interval or 2 downloading as well as organising resources! I'll state to a greater extent than well-nigh this inward my side yesteryear side post.

There were lots of websites that I didn't advert inward the listing higher upwardly that should definitely live on on your radar. If I'd had longer than l minutes for my workshop, I'd direct maintain included the websites listed below (and many more!):

• MathedUp! - lots of fantabulous Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree links including activities, PowerPoints as well as videos.
• next post volition characteristic to a greater extent than ideas for instruction Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree maths.
  
  
  
  
  
  

#Mathsconf5

Yesterday La Salle Education held their 5th National Maths Teacher Conference. I didn't attend the start 1 (I was really novel to Twitter at the time) but I've attended the final 4 conferences as well as stimulate got actually enjoyed them all. I honey learning to a greater extent than near maths instruction - I ever become dorsum to schoolhouse feeling inspired as well as total of fresh ideas.

This fourth dimension the conference was held at Ponds Forge inward Sheffield. The venue was a flake oil around the edges as well as it was a shame that in that place was no technical back upward available for presenters, but Sheffield is ever a pleasance to visit. I travelled upward later schoolhouse on Friday, spending my long develop journeying marker terrible S1 homeworks (note to self: instruct measure difference again!). At Doncaster I bumped into some other Jo (the lovely @JoLocke1) - it was overnice to stimulate got a companion for the residue of the journey. Following a brief halt at the hotel nosotros went to the pre-conference drinks at All Bar One. It was actually overnice to relax as well as verbalize to people amongst usual interests - I enjoyed chatting near maths instruction amongst tweeps including (pictured below) @suzekward, @Ms_Kmp, @MoreThanMaths and @MsSteel_Maths.

In the morn I walked over to the conference amongst Jo Gledhill (the immature human being Lead Practitioner I'd met on my means to Sheffield), Charmayne Bailey (also a Lead Practitioner, just dorsum from Shanghai) as well as Mo Ladak (AST as well as writer of the vivid website MathedUp!). What fantastic people - I couldn't stimulate got asked for amend company. On arrival I spotted not-so-grumpy Ed Southall (of solvemymaths.com - creator of the Maths Mr Men) - he kindly bought me a bacon sandwich as well as told me near the book he's writing, which is going to live absolutely essential reading for maths teachers.

I'm straightaway going to portion my thoughts on the 3 workshops I attended - I'm non a cracking greenback taker hence these are non detailed accounts, just a few highlights.

New GCSE - Andrew Taylor as well as Craig Barton

This workshop left me slightly terrified near the novel GCSE! I honey Craig's operate but I've never seen him nowadays before. He is a highly entertaining as well as engaging presenter as well as I really much enjoyed listening to his thoughts as well as insights. I'm quite familiar amongst the novel GCSE content - I've complied a whole page total of resources for the novel topics - but taking some other aspect at sample attempt out questions, amongst Craig's commentary, was incredibly helpful. My immediate thoughts were:

• The novel content on Foundation - for instance trigonometry as well as quadratics - is merely non suitable for this tier. The inclusion of these novel topics seems to totally negate the betoken of a two-tier GCSE. This sort of nonsense makes me cross. 
• In my persuasion our maths curriculum is far equally good broad at Key Stage 4 (for both tiers) - instead of including novel topics, topics should stimulate got been removed hence nosotros tin embrace the of import materials inward to a greater extent than depth. The authorities is desperate to improve our international maths rankings, but I believe that what nosotros instruct is a bigger employment than how nosotros instruct - as well as inward my persuasion the novel GCSE has gone inward the incorrect direction.
• The novel GCSE volition include familiar topics inward non-routine questions. I similar the mode of the novel GCSE questions really much but they volition surely nowadays a large challenge for most students. The examples Craig showed clearly demonstrated this. We stimulate got our operate cutting out! 

Craig announced a novel resources from AQA as well as diagnosticquestions.com which I'm sure volition bear witness really helpful.  Here you volition find a collection of multiple selection quizzes inward the mode of novel GCSE questions (more coming soon). As there's a Foundation as well as Higher version for each topic, Craig suggested using the Foundation tests equally a baseline, as well as then instruction the content, as well as then using the Higher tests to assess progress. An instance enquiry is shown below.

As I've said, I don't brand cracking notes at conferences - but I was sitting side yesteryear side to Ed during this session and, equally you lot tin see, his notes are crystal clear... Yes, that's a sheep.

Paper Maths - Jenny Steel
Pink-haired Jenny is fabulous, as well as I knew just what to aspect from her workshop - lots of fourth dimension to play amongst paper, interspersed amongst instruction ideas. It was actually fun as well as in that place was a lovely atmosphere inward the room. I'm non cracking amongst this sort of matter (I've never had whatever success whatsoever amongst origami) but foldables (which are large inward America) are definitely something I tin manage.

Check out Jenny's blog for lots to a greater extent than near this. She's planning to gear upward a website for sharing foldables too.

During this workshop I was really lucky to sit down side yesteryear side to Kim (@Ms_Kmp) who writes the wonderful website mathssandpit.co.uk - she's really creative as well as was showing me all sorts of fantastic newspaper maths. Here's my tabular array enjoying themselves:

Thanks to Suzanne Gardner for showing me a clever play a joke on for making a quick revision booklet. And Ed (@solvemymaths) told us how to revitalise gum sticks - seat a driblet of H2O inward the lid, seat the lid on as well as acquire out it upside downwardly overnight. 

Overall this was a cracking workshop - thank you lot really much to Jenny for organising it.

Shanghai - Bruno Reddy, Craig Jeavons, Matt Fox

With 3 presenters just dorsum from Shanghai, I knew there'd live a lot to larn here. I enjoyed this session really much. As good equally all the myth busting (most strikingly, the youngster sleeping at the dorsum of a classroom), enough of transferable instruction ideas were shared inward this session. Craig has blogged near it here - slides as well as notes volition live available presently hence these ideas tin live shared to a greater extent than widely. 

We looked at how indices are taught, including the progression of questions which was fascinating. We also looked at translation (that's slide/glide to my non-UK readers) - I honey the means the topic is introduced using videos as well as pictures, followed yesteryear really clear, good structured explanations.

Narrative plays a large business office inward maths lessons inward Shanghai - I wrote near the benefits of instruction through storytelling inward my post service near High Expectations.

Picture by @DrBennison

Overall this was an first-class session - I liked hearing near maths instruction inward Shanghai from 3 dissimilar perspectives as well as the content gave me a lot to intend about.

I was pleased amongst all my workshop choices. I'm getting amend at picking the correct sessions - those that incorporate master copy ideas or helpful insights as well as are direct relevant to my usage or embrace an surface area of involvement to me. I was really distressing to immature lady Kris Bolton's workshop on the Stories of Maths, but Tom Bennison came to the rescue as well as filmed the whole verbalize (video here) - hurrah!

I hope that people who attended my workshop on Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grade resources institute it to live content-rich as well as good structured - whatever feedback is welcome. I want I'd had to a greater extent than fourth dimension hence that delegates could stimulate got a become at to a greater extent than of the activities I shared. But I did my best to embrace equally much equally I could inward l minutes as well as I promise people institute it helpful. I've written all near my workshop blog for lots to a greater extent than near this. She's planning to gear upward a website for sharing foldables too.

During this workshop I was really lucky to sit down side yesteryear side to Kim (@Ms_Kmp) who writes the wonderful website mathssandpit.co.uk - she's really creative as well as was showing me all sorts of fantastic newspaper maths. Here's my tabular array enjoying themselves:

Thanks to Suzanne Gardner for showing me a clever play a joke on for making a quick revision booklet. And Ed (@solvemymaths) told us how to revitalise gum sticks - seat a driblet of H2O inward the lid, seat the lid on as well as acquire out it upside downwardly overnight. 

Overall this was a cracking workshop - thank you lot really much to Jenny for organising it.

Shanghai - Bruno Reddy, Craig Jeavons, Matt Fox

With 3 presenters just dorsum from Shanghai, I knew there'd live a lot to larn here. I enjoyed this session really much. As good equally all the myth busting (most strikingly, the youngster sleeping at the dorsum of a classroom), enough of transferable instruction ideas were shared inward this session. Craig has blogged near it here - slides as well as notes volition live available presently hence these ideas tin live shared to a greater extent than widely. 

We looked at how indices are taught, including the progression of questions which was fascinating. We also looked at translation (that's slide/glide to my non-UK readers) - I honey the means the topic is introduced using videos as well as pictures, followed yesteryear really clear, good structured explanations.

Narrative plays a large business office inward maths lessons inward Shanghai - I wrote near the benefits of instruction through storytelling inward my post service near here for those who didn't attend.

A Susan Wall activity from my workshop

TweetUp

Julia Smith (@tessmaths) did a vivid chore of organising the TweetUp at lunchtime. I was inward accuse of the photobooth - give thank you lot you to all who posed for a photo.

Cakes as well as Gifts 

Huge thank you lot to Andrew Paget, Julia Smith as well as Rob Smith for the gifts - such generous people. Thanks also to Luke Graham for inviting me to acquire involved inward his GCSE collaboration session which I'm sure he'll weblog near soon. 

Apologies for non mentioning everyone who I spoke to - it actually was lovely to run into novel people, as well as to reckon people over again who I've met at previous conferences.

I ever honey the cake contest - the within of the Rubik's Cube cake was especially impressive! All the cakes were awesome, but I was pleased to reckon the circle theorem cakes win the prize - banking corporation check out the tiny tangents.

Overall it was a cracking hateful solar daytime - I met many many lovely people, talked a lot near maths teaching, felt inspired, as well as survived my workshop inward 1 slice (phew!). Thanks to La Salle for some other vivid conference. See you lot all at the side yesteryear side one.

#mathsconf5 inward activeness - painting by @dmg_13

A Degree Resources #2

This is my minute post virtually my previous post I shared some of my favourite H5N1 grade resources. In this post I'm roofing the other fundamental points from my workshop:
1. The demand for resources.
2. Using problems sets.
3. Getting organised (including schemes of work).
I also hash out how to part additional resources amongst students, which I didn't direct keep fourth dimension to comprehend at the conference.

I precisely desire to clarify something earlier I start - resources are helpful, but inwards my heed at that topographic point is null to a greater extent than of import than clarity of explanation. Good H5N1 grade teachers direct keep audio champaign of written report noesis as well as know how to explicate things well. Please don't intend that my focus on resources at the conference suggests that I intend that resources accept precedence! They don't. They're prissy to direct keep though.

Is the textbook enough? 
I started my workshop past times discussing the demand for H5N1 grade resources. I oftentimes live on H5N1 grade textbook exercises for exercise inwards class, but create I demand anything else?

To respond that inquiry let's hold back at my typical lesson structure. I don't create anything revolutionary inwards my H5N1 grade pedagogy - no flipped learning, no enquiry - my mode is fairly traditional. I'm non proverb this is the best agency to learn H5N1 level, it's precisely the agency I teach.

In the construction higher upward yous tin come across that I usually start amongst a skills depository fiscal establishment gibe as well as refresher (sometimes an examination inquiry relating to what nosotros did inwards the final lesson, sometimes a curt puzzle or activity), thence I demand resources at this point. I'll thence learn something novel as well as my students volition practise that novel science (again, I'll demand resources hither - a textbook, worksheet or activity). Formative assessment of skills during this action volition assist me create upward one's heed which students demand to a greater extent than explanation. Imagine the shape splitting into ii groups at this indicate - those who've demonstrated agreement as well as are developing fluency, as well as those who demand to a greater extent than back upward (I powerfulness demand some differentiated activities here). After the lesson I demand to create some summative assessment, thence I powerfulness laid a homework which I volition accept inwards as well as mark, or I powerfulness assess students inwards a examine on a subsequently appointment - again, I demand resources for these assessment activities. Finally, I tell my students to create ongoing independent exercise as well as I demand to indicate them inwards the administration of resources for this. So yous tin come across that at that topographic point are many opportunities to live on a diversity of resources throughout the lesson. The textbook does non comprehend all these bases. Thankfully there's loads of vivid H5N1 grade resources available - read my previous post for ideas.

In my workshop I shared 3 activities from MEI as well as asked delegates to hash out whether they'd live on these, as well as how they could live on them. For illustration I oftentimes live on the get-go action below (Logs True or False past times Susan Wall) equally a quick refresher (ie a starter), but it also plant good for formative assessment (perhaps amongst mini-whiteboards) and/or basic skills practice.

The coordinate geometry resource higher upward plant good inwards a consolidation lesson - students depict their working diagram inwards the middle of A3 newspaper as well as stick each occupation (and their answers) around the border inwards the club they completed the tasks. The thought is to acquire them thinking virtually the data they demand to respond each question.

Problem sets
Time is a huge occupation inwards H5N1 grade teaching. At my previous schoolhouse nosotros had 8 lessons a fortnight (split 5/3 betwixt ii teachers) inwards both Year 12 as well as Year 13. This merely was non plenty fourth dimension to learn 3 modules. I was ever rushing through topics as well as oftentimes stressed virtually running out of time. At my novel schoolhouse nosotros acquire to a greater extent than fourth dimension (10 lessons a fortnight inwards Year 12 as well as nine lessons a fortnight inwards Year 13) - this is much better, though I nonetheless experience some fourth dimension pressure. I'd honey to pass fourth dimension on occupation solving but 'getting through the examination specification' takes priority. For the strange occasion when I create acquire the chance to create some occupation solving amongst my students, I've collated a publish of problems sets (suitable for GCSE as well as AS level):

• Pythagoras -> PowerPoint // PDF
• Indices -> PowerPoint // PDF
• Surds -> PowerPoint // PDF
• Quadratics -> PowerPoint // PDF
• Equation of a circle -> PowerPoint // PDF

I got the problems from diverse sources (information listed inwards the PowerPoints). I usually impress the PDFs on A3 newspaper as well as acquire students to piece of work amongst a partner to solve the problems inwards whatsoever order.

Getting organised
When I was Key Stage five Coordinator I went into schoolhouse during the summertime holidays as well as spent a solar daytime downloading as well as organising hundreds of H5N1 grade resources. This saves everyone a lot of fourth dimension as well as endeavor during term time. I organised these resources past times topic on the schoolhouse network as well as added them to my school's H5N1 grade Schemes of Work. I've moved schools straight off but took all the files amongst me (attendees at my conference session were given my extensive C1/C2 resources files equally a give thank yous you for coming!).

Extract from C2 Scheme of Work

Some schools don't live on schemes of piece of work for H5N1 level. It's non a necessity similar it is at Key Stage 3 as well as GCSE. I was lucky that nosotros had fantabulous schemes of piece of work at my previous schoolhouse which contained lots of links to resources - these were gear upward as well as regularly updated past times my colleagues.

At the terminate of my workshop a delegate asked if I'd part these schemes of piece of work as well as I promised I would, thence here's C1 - C4 for yous to borrow as well as edit. None of the hyperlinks volition piece of work inwards these documents because they were linked to the schoolhouse network, non the internet, but at to the lowest degree it's a starting indicate for the structure.

Incidentally, if I were starting a resources collection from scratch thence I'd see using Pinterest or Pealrtrees to concord my collection because I honey the 'snapshot' format.

Sharing resources amongst students

Consider setting upward a weblog or Twitter occupation organisation human relationship for your students - accept students to an information technology Room as well as acquire them to follow the occupation organisation human relationship or register for e-mail updates to ensure yous acquire an audience. Publish essential data (eg assessment dates, homework deadlines) as well as hand access to resources, tips, enrichment as well as thence on. In the twelvemonth that I was Key Stage five Coordinator, I wrote a Sixth Form Maths Blog - it has been abandoned straight off I've left the school, which is a shame because I was actually proud of it. It was a groovy agency to encourage independent learning as well as to hand students opportunities to improve. Below is an illustration post thence yous tin come across how I shared resources amongst students. If yous desire to come across an illustration Twitter occupation organisation human relationship for students, hold back at @MathsNewVic.

So that's it! I hope these ii posts direct keep helped yous inwards creating or enhancing your collection of H5N1 grade resources. If yous attended my workshop I hope yous institute it useful. Please comment below to part anything adept that I've missed - I'd honey to come across your favourite resources as well as listen virtually what yous do.