This is my 54th update from the Blue Planet of Maths EduTwitter. If you're non a tweeter, or you've been away over Easter as well as you're wondering what y'all missed, here's a summary of closed to of the latest resources for didactics maths.
1. Algebra past times Example In response to my blog post close whether posters e'er function good inwards maths lessons, Chris K (@k_sirhc) shared the Strategic Education Research Partnership's maths website. It contains poster problems as well as a range of resources called 'Algebra past times Example' which are worth a look. There are 42 curt activities that could last used every 2nd starters, popular off tickets, assessments, homeworks or prompts for cast discussion. Each action involves commenting on closed to other student's function as well as thus answering a like question. Here's an example:
2. Deepening Understanding Ben (@DUMaths) is a Year half dozen instructor who has lately launched a novel website deepeningunderstanding.co.uk containing maths resources aimed at Year half dozen students. There's closed to lovely materials hither as well as the collection is growing.
Welcome to my 59th update from the globe of Maths EduTwitter. Here I summarise some of the latest ideas in addition to resources for instruction maths.
First I desire to tell give thank y'all you! Today I reached a milestone - resourceaholic.com has had over i 1000000 views since my offset blog post, which I wrote when I was heavily meaning dorsum inward Apr 2014. Since in addition to hence I've been busy, publishing guide to resourceaholic.com helpful. Thank y'all to all my readers in addition to contributors, in addition to to those who regularly purpose in addition to recommend my resources libraries. I genuinely appreciate the support.
On amongst the gems...
1. Increasingly Difficult Questions I similar @taylorda01's novel laid of 'increasingly hard questions'. In lessons I oft inquire my students to endeavour some practise questions from the board hence I tin cheque their understanding, earlier moving on to a lengthier task. This growing banking concern of questions volition last useful.
2. Arithmetic Vocabulary
I dear these graphics shared by @mathemaniac. They powerfulness brand expert displays for a maths classroom.
3. More Displays I also similar these Command Word Posters from Christine Norledge (@MissNorledge). She offset published these concluding twelvemonth simply somehow I missed them at the time.
This lovely Join #TeamMaths in which I talked well-nigh my latest Twitter project
Warwick 2016 in which I reviewed Edexcel's Warwick conference in addition to shared materials from my workshop 'The Wonderful World of Maths Resources'
Scheme of Work Development in which I shared some thoughts in addition to experiences of GCSE Schemes of Work
I also presented a workshop called 'Perfect Polynomials' at the FMSP's London KS5 Network Day concluding Fri - y'all tin download the materials here.
I was interested to run into that Boolean Maths Hub is running a 2 day summer school for roughly 75 students to tending span the gap betwixt GCSE in addition to Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level. If this goes good I wonder if to a greater extent than hubs volition follow their Pb adjacent summer. I'm also impressed past times the run done past times the White Rose Maths Hub lately in developing schemes of run in addition to resources - including lots of back upwards for principal teachers.
Did y'all run into that MEI has released a sequel to their awesome Sumaze App? Check out Sumaze! 2.
If you're looking for resources for halt of term lessons (when y'all solely cause got a one-half a cast or one-half a lesson hence can't learn novel topics), cheque out my postal service End of Term Resources. Also, don't forget Chris Smith's Summer Holiday Relay Race.
Open Evening I wrote a postal service well-nigh ideas for Open Evening a distich of years ago. Some of y'all won't cause got Open Evening until September simply nosotros had ours concluding week, hence here's a quick update on some novel things nosotros tried this year...
In i classroom nosotros played Memory Maths from flashmaths.co.uk. This game has been roughly for years simply I've non used it before. It was genuinely fun! We gathered together groups of competitors (visiting children, their parents, Year seven in addition to Year 12 tour guides, passing teachers...), in addition to gave them each a mini-whiteboard. Questions flashed upwards on the board in addition to players had to write downward the answers if in addition to when they could. It worked good - I dear activities that engage every historic menstruum group.
In some other room nosotros had a tabular array gear upwards amongst lots of Numeracy Ninjas sheets. Visiting children in addition to our pupil tour guides sat downward in addition to completed equally much equally they could, in addition to when their fourth dimension was upwards nosotros marked what they'd done in addition to gave them a corresponding ninja sticker. We've been using Numeracy Ninjas at Key Stage iii for the concluding few months in addition to it's been going genuinely good hence it was expert to give prospective students a gustation of something they volition genuinely create inward maths lessons. Us teachers all had a become besides in addition to enjoyed wearing our stickers subsequently (we're a competitive department!).
That's it from me. I'll move out y'all amongst a lovely inquiry from AQA that genuinely stumped my Year 10s. It's a double bounds question, inward reverse, amongst discrete data. It takes some thinking!
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.
When I joined Twitter I couldn't believe how many ideas as well as resources were beingness shared past times maths teachers everyday that weren't beingness seen past times the hundreds of thousands of maths teachers who aren't on Twitter. I think trying to convince a colleague to bring together Twitter as well as he said 'I merely don't accept fourth dimension for it. I wishing mortal could merely summarise the ideas for me'. So that's what I travail to do.
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.
This is merely an extract - download the poster to empathise what it's all about. This is definitely something to portion alongside all trainee maths teachers (and belike all experienced maths teachers too).
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.
One of the novel additions is a bar modelling tool. It's really slow to usage as well as I'm certain lots of teachers volition notice it helpful.
3. Indices Tasks 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.
The challenge: Write your bring upwardly as well as thence that it covers an surface area of just 100 cm squared.
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 @PaiMathpic.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!
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
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.
This is my 54th update from the Blue Planet of Maths EduTwitter. If you're non a tweeter, or you've been away over Easter as well as you're wondering what y'all missed, here's a summary of closed to of the latest resources for didactics maths.
