Maths Vocabulary

I found Cav's blog postal service 'Vocabulary in addition to maths are non mutually exclusive' actually interesting in addition to it got me thinking most activities in addition to instruction techniques related to maths vocabulary.

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Since writing this postal service terminal twelvemonth I've seen lots of groovy resources for developing vocabulary. I especially similar the Literacy Assessments featured inwards vocabulary noesis survey. When y'all showtime instruction a topic, do a listing of the novel words that volition last used in addition to inquire students to consummate a nautical chart showing their agreement of those words.  Repeat the activeness subsequently to come across the improvement inwards agreement - I've non tried this myself however but I intend it would generate merely about useful questions equally good equally boosting pupil confidence.

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Since writing this postal service terminal twelvemonth I've seen lots of groovy resources for developing vocabulary. I especially similar the Literacy Assessments featured inwards Area in addition to Volume I suggested these maths vocabulary exercises which brand for overnice 'end of term' lessons.  Here's an illustration of an activeness from this pack:

Here's merely about to a greater extent than links that y'all powerfulness detect useful:

• The Maths Magpie has created these great Maths Vocabulary Activities
• A listing of primal words for Key Stage 3
• Another vocabulary activity - maybe an choice to the noesis survey described above
• Exercises amongst a Mathematics Dictionary 
• Background reading 'Building Mathematical Vocabulary' past times Dr Madeline Kovarik

I was of late talking to a highly intelligent in addition to articulate Year xiii pupil who said that she hated it when her instructor asked her to 'speak maths'. I asked her to elaborate. She said that when questioning the class, the instructor expected answers that used appropriate maths vocabulary - in addition to fifty-fifty this pupil (who'll last off to Oxbridge inwards September) constitute this daunting.  We demand to address this effect from a immature age.  One tip is to ever require pupils to respond questions inwards total sentences instead of merely numbers or words - from main schoolhouse onwards. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rattling unproblematic illustration - inwards response to the interrogation 'what do nosotros telephone telephone a polygon amongst 8 sides?', don't convey the respond 'octagon' - inquire for a total judgement such equally 'An 8-sided polygon is called an octagon' to larn pupils used to 'speaking maths' from an early on historic current (source).

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Since writing this postal service terminal twelvemonth I've seen lots of groovy resources for developing vocabulary. I especially similar the Literacy Assessments featured inwards Gems 43. I also constitute the source).

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Since writing this postal service terminal twelvemonth I've seen lots of groovy resources for developing vocabulary. I especially similar the Literacy Assessments featured inwards activity below worked good amongst my Year 7s.

Here's my take away to literacy inwards maths lessons:

5 Maths Gems #1

I’m fairly novel to Twitter. My absence over the final few years agency I’ve missed out on thousands of fantabulous didactics ideas. Twitter is a source of endless inspiration. So I cause got a plan. I’m going to write a weekly post highlighting 5 swell novel ideas I’ve gleaned from Twitter. These posts volition aid me retrieve things. And hopefully my readers volition do goodness too.

Today I’ve exceeded my trammel in addition to am presenting a listing of 6 ideas from my calendar week on Twitter (not a practiced start! I’ll aim for 5 adjacent week).

1. Practical ideas from Maryse. It sounds similar Maryse (@AllThingsMaths) has done an amazing labor transforming mathematics didactics inward her schoolhouse in addition to enthusing her students alongside tonnes of creative ideas. Here’s a alternative of those she’s shared this week:

• Play grab alongside eggs in addition to function out the relative frequency of smashing.
• Get an onetime tyre, pigment it in addition to whorl it to demonstrate circumference. 
• Have a seat out business painted inward the playground.
• Have discussions most going dorsum inward fourth dimension in addition to Doctor Who alongside go graphs. 

I dearest these ideas. Follow @AllThingsMaths for lots more.

Mistake Game, Colin Beveridge (My Favorite Liar’. You must read this! It prompted a give-and-take on Twitter most whether the thought would function inward maths. I think it would. In your start lesson alongside a novel class, say them that you'll say 1 prevarication per lesson. Your pupils cause got to position your lies. In the give-and-take on Twitter nosotros came upwards alongside a practiced listing of lies in addition to misconceptions, such every bit 'multiplication makes numbers bigger', 'if a seat out has 6 zeros so it's inward the millions' in addition to 'one is a prime number'. The thought is that y'all sideslip these lies into your didactics in addition to promise that your pupils volition right away challenge you. And if no-one challenges y'all so it volition brand a overnice plenary discussion. Mr Allan (@mrallanmaths) is going to endeavor it out - I’m actually looking frontward to hearing how effective it is. I think, similar the error game, it volition last incredibly engaging.

3. Box plots party. In reply to my post most teaching box plots, Pete Sides of the South Yorkshire Maths Hub (@SYMathsHub) suggested a lovely action inward which pupils speak over the ages of guests at unlike types of party, to aid them sympathise the concept of spread. For representative y'all could inquire them to line a box plot representing the ages of guests at an 18th birthday party, a wedding, a child’s political party etc. I similar this thought so I turned it into a worksheet in addition to added it to my weblog post.

Trigonometry triangles are similar. I’ve never given much thought to the fact that my students are missing an chance to practise rearranging formulae. I sympathise the argue for mixed views on these methods, but I do rather similar the triangle shared yesteryear Malc Henderson (@malc_henderson) for solving opposite percent problems. It’s overnice to cause got a make of tools to back upwards students when they’re preparing for their GCSEs.

6. Display ideas. Clarissa Grandi (@c0mplexnumber) posted a pic of her novel ‘vwllss’ corridor display (inspiration from @El_Timbre). It looks fantastic - what a practiced idea!

Other practiced display ideas I’ve seen lately include circle formulae yesteryear Dawn (@mrsdenyer), a foursquare beginning clock yesteryear Duncan Smart (@duncsmart), in addition to an interactive seat out puzzle for a maths corridor or classroom, shared yesteryear Mr C Ward (@MrWardMaths).

There y'all go, vi maths gems from @mathsjem (my initials are JEM yesteryear the way, it’s non a spelling mistake!). This is merely a pocket-size alternative of the practiced ideas I’ve seen on Twitter this week. More to come upwards adjacent week!

I’m working on a few posts at the moment, including 1 on introducing algebra in addition to 1 on introducing differentiation – if y'all cause got whatever swell ideas so delight electronic mail resourceaholic@gmail.com or tweet me.

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5 Maths Gems #2

Last calendar week I promised I'd write a weekly postal service summarising the novel teaching ideas I'd seen on Twitter. Afterwards I worried whether I'd direct maintain plenty cloth to write about, but this calendar week I wasn't disappointed. Plenty of ideas were shared - here's v of them.

1. Revision Whispers. As I've said before, I'm ever on the await out for engaging ideas for revision lessons. Billy Adamson (@Billyads_47) shared this fantastic sentiment 'Maths Whispers!' inwards which pupils are given a fact or formula to communicate amongst their classmates, 'Chinese Whispers' style. Billy says that when his students were walking downwards the corridor afterwards, they were excitedly talking most what each disceptation was initially too what it became. I dearest this idea. It would operate good inwards other subjects too. Check out Billy's resources on TES. Here's a variation I powerfulness endeavor for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 plane revision: carve upwards the degree into teams. The teams shape lines from the dorsum of the classroom upwards to the board. The pupils at the dorsum are given a message to read. Here's an representative from S2:

All teams direct maintain the same message. The message is simultaneously passed along the lines inwards whispers. The finally pupil inwards each describe writes the message on the board. The most accurate squad wins! Then shuffle the students too endeavor some other message. My A plane revision cards direct maintain plenty of ideas for messages - definitions too formulae would operate well.

2. Post-its. Mr Allan (@mrallanmaths) wrote this blog post most his purpose of post-it notes inwards lessons. He displays questions on boards around his classroom. Students (in pairs or teams) operate their agency around the room answering the questions on post-it notes. It's a quick too tardily agency of assessing agreement too finding misconceptions. It's also really engaging, fifty-fifty though the questions are precisely from a textbook. The sentiment originated from a tweet past times Chris McGrane (@ChrisMcGrane84) back inwards January. Shelley Smith (@saxsmith27) successfully tried it out this week.

Speaking of post-it notes, I similar this 'What stuck amongst you?' idea, shared past times @RemindHQ. It could endure a prissy plenary activity ane time a week, or fifty-fifty at the terminate of every lesson.

If you lot desire to a greater extent than post-it banknote teaching ideas too then banking concern jibe out 'fractions weblog post this calendar week I discovered the blog Authentic Inquiry Maths which is total of skillful ideas, similar T-charts for highlighting similarities too differences. Pupils purpose ICT to create their charts too you lot larn a prissy mix of presentation styles, similar the representative below.

Ed Southall's (@edsouthall) tricky maths problems on his website solvemymaths.com are also actually visually appealing too I await forrad to using them to challenge too extend my students adjacent year.

Area employment #2 - solvemymaths.com

Here's some other 'attractive' activity I spotted on Twitter this week. This ane was shared past times Khan Academy (@khanacademy).  It's an engaging activity because it's visually striking, accessible too has a skillful plane of challenge for pupils who've studied Pythagoras' Theorem. Shame I don't direct maintain the budget for colour photocopying!

4. Starting a novel schoolhouse year. With exclusively ii weeks left inwards the summertime holidays, I've started to meet weblog posts most things to practise inwards starting fourth dimension lessons of the schoolhouse year. I wrote a pair myself a few weeks agone - ane on your starting fourth dimension lesson amongst Year 7 too ane on kicking off Year 12.  Here's a few to a greater extent than I've spotted late that are worth a read:

• This 'Deliberate Mistakes, Jo Boaler (@joboaler) talked this calendar week most the value of mistakes inwards ‘Setting upwards Positive Norms inwards Maths Class'. In this document, she suggests that nosotros brand a habit of inviting pupils to the board to portion their conceptual mistakes. She also suggests that pupils crumple a slice of newspaper too throw it at the board - precisely once, inwards a symbolic form of agency - non every fourth dimension they brand a mistake... Though I wonder if that would endure worth trying too, to works life a classroom civilization of ‘everyone makes mistakes’ too to encourage risk-taking. Can you lot imagine if your pupils threw all their mistakes at the board? It powerfulness larn a chip messy. Fun though.
  
  Jo makes a position out of other useful suggestions inwards her article, such equally writing students' skillful questions on posters around the room. She also talks most the importance of valuing depth over speed. Many of my students larn inwards in secondary schoolhouse amongst the impression that it’s of import to practise maths quickly. ‘Beat the clock’ type activities encourage this. What’s the rush?
  
  So, some helpful thoughts from Jo Boaler. Shame most the negative article she wrote this calendar week most maths teaching inwards the UK, but yay to the NCETM for defending us! It’s prissy to know somebody has our backs.
  
  And finally...
  I'll destination off today's postal service amongst 3 recommended reads:
  
  • Interactive Bulletin Boards for Secondary School Mathematics
  • here). By the way, all my weekly Maths Gems posts volition endure filed on this page, which you lot tin give the axe access from the 'Extras' bill of fare on my blog. Thanks for reading.
    
    
    

5 Maths Gems #3

Well it's been an emotional twosome of weeks. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat too GCSE results kept many of us upward at nighttime too nosotros experienced the commons feelings of joy, pride, relief too sometimes disappointment. But nevertheless nosotros hold to cook for the novel schoolhouse yr too shout back nearly what we'll exercise differently.

The hardest matter nearly writing these weekly posts is deciding which ideas to feature. I receive got an increasingly long listing of unused textile because fifty-fifty when Twitter's teachers are preoccupied amongst results, the incredible inventiveness too spirit of collaboration remains. In this postal service I'll showcase merely v of the really many ideas shared on Twitter this week.

1. Homework
Kathryn Forster (@DIRT_expert) shared a novel gear upward of homeworks that she has designed. Each homework consists of v sections: literacy, research, memory, skills too stretch. These homeworks would live followed upward past times starter activities such every bit spelling or retentiveness tests too discussions nearly enquiry findings. Kathryn has really helpfully shared iv of her homeworks for us to borrow:

• Negative numbers  
• Rounding
• Fractions, Decimals too Percentages
• Wordy arithmetic

These are actually goodness ideas.

If you're thinking nearly trying out to a greater extent than or less dissimilar approaches to homework I recommend reading Cav's (Homework too Retention and Take Away Homework.

2. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Scavenger Hunt

Speaking of homework, the Mailbox (@TheMailbox) shared a 'scavenger hunt' which could live adapted every bit starting fourth dimension homework for Year seven or 8.  Alternatively you lot could convey a pile of newspapers too magazines into 1 of your starting fourth dimension Year seven lessons so your pupils tin exercise a poster inward degree using this idea.

Wouldn't this live nifty for the starting fourth dimension calendar week of schoolhouse & slowly to revise for whatsoever degree level? http://t.co/lpCN5KrS88 pic.twitter.com/i9wghJFQtk
— The Mailbox (@TheMailbox) August 22, 2014

3. Oh for a room to telephone yell upward my own...

There's nevertheless a lot of classroom display ideas going circular Twitter. One of my most retweeted retweets this calendar week was this 'Change your words' display:

@mathequalslove what exercise you lot think? Thanks for the inspiration too the files! You. Are. Awesome! pic.twitter.com/vEeTQ2fCdl
— casey mccormick (@cmmteach) August 19, 2014

It's of import to communicate these messages too a display similar this is a goodness agency of doing so. The sentiment originally came from Sarah Hagan's (@mathequalslove) post '2014-2015 Classroom Pics - My Most Colorful Room Yet!'. Sarah may good live 1 of the most enthusiastic maths teachers inward the world! Her weblog is really popular, too rightly so. Check out this lectern inward her room - yes, a lectern! Is this touchstone inward American classrooms? I must acquire one!

I saw lots of prissy display ideas inward Sarah's Homework too Retention and Take Away Homework.

2. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Scavenger Hunt

Speaking of homework, the Mailbox (@TheMailbox) shared a 'scavenger hunt' which could live adapted every bit starting fourth dimension homework for Year seven or 8.  Alternatively you lot could convey a pile of newspapers too magazines into 1 of your starting fourth dimension Year seven lessons so your pupils tin exercise a poster inward degree using this idea.

Wouldn't this live nifty for the starting fourth dimension calendar week of schoolhouse & slowly to revise for whatsoever degree level? http://t.co/lpCN5KrS88 pic.twitter.com/i9wghJFQtk
— The Mailbox (@TheMailbox) August 22, 2014

3. Oh for a room to telephone yell upward my own...

There's nevertheless a lot of classroom display ideas going circular Twitter. One of my most retweeted retweets this calendar week was this 'Change your words' display:

@mathequalslove what exercise you lot think? Thanks for the inspiration too the files! You. Are. Awesome! pic.twitter.com/vEeTQ2fCdl
— casey mccormick (@cmmteach) August 19, 2014

It's of import to communicate these messages too a display similar this is a goodness agency of doing so. The sentiment originally came from Sarah Hagan's (@mathequalslove) post 'post - similar the figurer posters below - too it made me long for my ain classroom. Whilst inward the baby-making phase of my life I'm having a brief while every bit a part-timer. It's a mixed blessing. One disadvantage is that I don't receive got my ain classroom so I learn inward rooms all over the school. Between lessons I receive got to mash downward crowded corridors amongst my huge purse of books too equipment (this was a nightmare when I was heavily pregnant!). There are lots of other disadvantages to beingness part-time such every bit missing of import information from unminuted meetings too a total lack of career progression opportunities. Of class this is all outweighed past times the massive wages of getting to pass fourth dimension amongst my children, so I'm non complaining... (much).

Another display sentiment I've seen this calendar week is this classroom rules poster, shared by @TeachThought inward this post. I shout back pupils would appreciate these really clear too reasonable messages.

On the land of written report of demeanour management, I enjoyed David Didau's (@learningspy) post on schoolhouse routines.

If you lot desire to brand your ain classroom posters too so recitethis.com is nifty for creating pretty quotes too notices - thank you lot to @mathminds for sharing the link.

And if you're looking to provide your classroom, Stephen Harris (@Stephen_H) shared a twosome of awesome write-on tabular array designs: these ones are nifty for collaboration and tangram tables are perfect for a maths classroom.

And hold upward on display ideas, Mr Allan (@mrallanmaths) shared his RAG123 display, Chris Smith (@aap03102) shared a motion-picture exhibit of his 'Mathematician of the month' board, too Mr Taylor (@taylorda01) adapted Spiked Math's Mathagasm comic so it's suitable for display. I'm going to pocket all iii ideas - if I e'er acquire my ain classroom.

4. Teaching ideas from #mathschat
Weekly maths chats receive got identify on Twitter every Midweek at 8pm, organised by @BetterMaths. This calendar week nosotros discussed our favourite topics, tasks, resources too investigations, so the goodness ideas were coming thick too fast! I've got a long listing to form through.

There were lots of ideas nearly getting out of the classroom. Jon Treby (@JonTrebyAAN) suggested education loci exterior using buildings too string. He likewise puts record on the flooring of the schoolhouse hall when he teaches angles inward parallel lines. Dawn (@mrsdenyer) has a schoolhouse treasure hunt for 3D trigonometry too Martin Noon (@letsgetmathing) suggests using a clinometer to mensurate the meridian of schoolhouse buildings too trees.

There was likewise a lot of beak nearly popcorn! Dawn (@mrsdenyer) gets her students to pattern a popcorn cone - an activity that involves sectors too arcs, Pythagoras too volume. If students tin function out the volume of their cone, they tin fill upward it amongst popcorn! Miss Ren (@ReynoldsBSGD) shared Dan Meyer's popcorn picker chore - 'all you lot demand is A4 paper. I merely stand upward dorsum too scout the kids acquire stuck in!'.

5. Mistakes too feedback
I've written a lot nearly learning from mistakes lately so this tweet was really relevant:

@Maths4ukplc @ccampbel14 Pupils copy/stick their error inward the box too and so right it. pic.twitter.com/C8TSaVApDo
— Helen Hindle (@HelenHindle1) July 30, 2014

And here's a nifty sentiment for marker from @ChrisHildrew.

So in that place you lot acquire - a minor pick of ideas from a calendar week on Twitter. I promise that's helpful. If you lot missed the previous 2 Maths Gems posts, you lot tin detect them here. I'll exit you lot amongst a prissy interrogation for your students from Big Ideas Math.

5 Maths Gems #4

Well the summertime holidays are good as well as really over. Many teachers, especially those who are relatively novel to teaching, volition pass this weekend making lists, planning lessons as well as experiencing that unsettling feeling of nervous excitement. If y'all create got fourth dimension to read this week's laid of maths gems, I promise they supply a petty calorie-free relief.

1. Maths lessons for maths teachers
I devote a lot of fourth dimension to thinking almost how to railroad train my teaching but pass far less fourth dimension edifice on my ain mathematical skills as well as knowledge. Whatever our background as well as nonetheless 'good' nosotros are at maths, there's ever to a greater extent than to learn. For example, I’ve never studied whatever mechanics inwards my life (I did Pure Maths Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat as well as a statistics degree) but SUVAT is on the novel GCSE syllabus as well as then I'd ameliorate uncovering out what it is.

I experience that my cognition of secondary schoolhouse core mathematics is pretty audio but this calendar week Ed Southall (@edsouthall) inadvertently pointed me inwards the administration of James Tanton's website (@jamestanton) and inside minutes I was learning novel things! Here's a few examples.

If asked to sketch the graph of y = x² + 4x + 5, I'd realise that it can't live factorised as well as then I'd cheque the discriminant to confirm that this constituent has no existent roots. My side past times side pace would live to consummate the foursquare to create upwards one's heed the vertex. I don't similar completing the square. I've never thought to uncovering the vertex using this post written past times a pupil I flora out that inwards Republic of Lithuania 1st September is a 'celebration of cognition day'. Also, inwards the Lithuanian equivalent of our Year 13, they create got a '100 twenty-four lx minutes catamenia celebration' inwards which they create got a prom to commemorate that they create got solely 100 days left of school. The residuum of the post is to a greater extent than oftentimes than non almost clothing shopping for Lithuanian teenagers, as well as then non quite as well as then interesting... I'd similar to uncovering out to a greater extent than almost traditions inwards teaching around the world.