5 Maths Gems #110

Welcome to my 110^th gems post. This is where I part merely about of the latest news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.

1. TES Author
When nosotros did the latest circular of TES Maths Panel reviews, my beau panelist Damian Watson discovered the wonderful complimentary resources of TES writer cparkinson3. This author's PowerPoints are actually good designed - they are slick in addition to professional person amongst neatly animated worked examples addition exercises amongst solutions.

For trial banking concern friction match out the ii lessons on volume of prisms - 1 for Foundation tier in addition to 1 for Higher tier.

This resources on curve sketching is excellent.

I actually similar the bar modelling lesson too.

Check out the full collection. I've added them all to my resource libraries.

2. Vectors inwards Transformations
There's been merely about updates to BossMaths including changes to their Geogebra applets. The rotations applet forthwith lets you lot demonstrate in addition to enshroud tracing paper. You tin also role vectors every bit an option to using tracing paper. I similar this thought - I notice using tracing newspaper a fleck unsatisfactory therefore I volition attempt vectors adjacent fourth dimension I learn this.

The here.

3. SATs Support
I know this is a fleck belatedly for Year vi teachers because SATs are adjacent week, but these resources mightiness move helpful to teachers of other twelvemonth groups, in addition to to Year vi teachers adjacent year.

Mr Morgs (@_mrmorgs) shared a PowerPoint explaining the linguistic communication used inwards the KS2 Maths SATs. This follows on from his detailed analysis of seek out language. This is actually interesting in addition to comes amongst lots of advice for teachers. I promise that 1 hateful solar daytime person does a similarly detailed analysis of the linguistic communication used inwards GCSE maths exams.

Greg Chantler (@gregchantler) seat all Key Stage 2 SATs arithmetics questions together inwards a PowerPoint in addition to separate them yesteryear curriculum year. Each enquiry comes amongst word prompts.

4. Defend Yourself
Amie Albrecht (@nomad_penguin) shared a novel thought for an activity. Students are assigned to a representation or method in addition to convey to attempt to explicate why it's best. I recall this would prompt rich word in addition to thinking.

5. Shifting Times Tables
This action from Miss Konstantine (@GiftedBA) provides a actually clear representation of linear sequences every bit 'shifting times tables'.

Here nosotros tin run into the iv times tabular array (4n) highlighted inwards the showtime row, in addition to therefore nosotros run into that the times tabular array has been shifted downward yesteryear 1 inwards the instant row, pregnant the nth term of the sequence is 4n - 1. I beloved the visualisation here. Check out Miss Konstantine's regularly updated blog for lots of groovy maths activities in addition to resources.

Update
My weblog has been receiving tape issue of visitors inwards the final duet of weeks. I gauge a lot of people are using my GCSE revision resources page and my of late published postal service on Foundation revision resources.

I've of late uploaded ii sets of revision mats to TES. I made these at operate when I realised it's hard to notice suitable resources for students who are working at a Grade 1 or 2. Most GCSE resources are inaccessible to them, in addition to this tin resultant inwards disengagement in addition to sometimes bad behaviour. So I made A3 revision mats that are to a greater extent than accessible, in addition to piece I was doing that I made similar resources for other classes. So at that spot are iv levels of difficulty. You tin download these resources here:

• GCSE Calculator Revision Mats: Higher in addition to Foundation
• GCSE Non-Calculator Revision Mats: Higher in addition to Foundation

I also made merely about Foundation workouts which are specially 'print budget friendly'.

GCSE exams are merely circular the corner now. Don't forget that final twelvemonth I made breakfast revision resources for all 3 exams. These tin move used either on the morning time of the exams or inwards the lessons leading upward to them. 

Last calendar week I published yesteryear 5th Annual Gem Awards. Do banking concern friction match it out if you lot missed it therefore you lot tin run into all the best gems of the year.

Congratulations to Emma McCrea on the publication of her novel mass 'Making Every Maths Lesson Count'. This is an first-class mass for maths teachers.

Here are another things you lot mightiness convey missed:

• In 2017 I published a postal service on approaches to answering AQA GCSE ratio questions. It's 1 of my around pop posts amongst over 20,000 reads. I've forthwith made a lesson to accompany this post.
• Adam Boxer (@adamboxer1) shared a postal service on observing goodness teaching which includes an 'expert teaching observation form'. I contributed to this postal service yesteryear testing the shape out inwards a maths lesson.
• Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) published a issue of novel lessons including merely about on indices which depict a lot of ideas from my Topics inwards Depth CPD. Check them out on his blog. 
• One of my Year 11s was flummoxed yesteryear rotational symmetry final calendar week therefore I used the FlashMaths rotational symmetry tool to demonstrate him how it works. This has been around for a real long fourth dimension therefore I was surprised that a lot of teachers on Twitter hadn't seen it before.

Don't forget that at that spot are a issue of events inwards the summertime term that are forthwith opened upward for booking (see my events listings here). I volition move presenting at researchED Rugby 2019, the Complete Mathematics Conference, the MEI Conference and the Kent in addition to Medway Secondary Maths Conference. Speaking of events, I also convey something a fleck dissimilar to denote shortly - lookout adult man this space.

I'll move out you lot amongst this video on why null is the naughtiest in addition to around of import issue from BBC Ideas.

Why null is the naughtiest in addition to around of import number

via @bbcideas pic.twitter.com/pRJ0M6uEdC

— BBC Teach (@BBC_Teach) 2 May 2019

5 Maths Gems #117

Welcome to my 117^th gems post. This is where I part some of the latest news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.

1. Ratio 
My favourite maths blogger Paul Rowlandson has written some other brilliant blog post - this i looks at diverse ways of thinking nearly how to brand functions in addition to equations out of pairs of equivalent ratios.

2. Berwick Maths
Joe Berwick (@BerwickMaths) launched a novel website berwickmaths.com where he shares the worked examples he uses inwards lessons from Key Stage 3 upwards to Key Stage 5. Read the homepage in addition to Joe's blog for to a greater extent than information on what it's all about.

3. Interleaving

Jason Steele (@steelemaths) shared a ready of tasks where topics are interleaved - for instance the chore below is nearly expanding in addition to simplifying but likewise gives students the chance to revisit fraction operations. You tin download this from TES. Check out Jason's Twitter feed for to a greater extent than of his resources.

4. Normal Distribution
Holly Morgan (@Hollymog) made a Fill inwards the Gaps activity for standardising normal distribution.  It's corking to meet these ideas inwards usage at H5N1 level.

If you're looking for some actually challenging normal distribution questions to assay your brightest Year 13s in addition to hence endeavour searching for 'normal' inwards the STEP database.

5. New Lesson Resources
In my concluding gems post I featured some novel resources from TES writer cparkinson3 (@CP3fxy). He has immediately shared 12 lessons on shape transformations.

Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) shared a dyad of corking lessons for teaching equations of parallel lines in addition to equations of perpendicular lines.

These resources receive got been added to my resources libraries.

Update
I'm ridiculously lucky to piece of job at a schoolhouse alongside a ii calendar week Oct half-term. It's a game changer.

On twelfth Oct I went to #mathsconf21 inwards Peterborough. As always, it was lovely to grab upwards alongside hence many maths teachers. Here's me in addition to Sheena (@Sheena2907) inwards matching maths dresses from Popsy:

I presented on the Calculator Crisis. If you lot attended that speak in addition to hence you lot tin download my slides blog post - this i looks at diverse ways of thinking nearly how to brand functions in addition to equations out of pairs of equivalent ratios.

2. Berwick Maths
Joe Berwick (@BerwickMaths) launched a novel website berwickmaths.com where he shares the worked examples he uses inwards lessons from Key Stage 3 upwards to Key Stage 5. Read the homepage in addition to Joe's blog for to a greater extent than information on what it's all about.

3. Interleaving

Jason Steele (@steelemaths) shared a ready of tasks where topics are interleaved - for instance the chore below is nearly expanding in addition to simplifying but likewise gives students the chance to revisit fraction operations. You tin download this from TES. Check out Jason's Twitter feed for to a greater extent than of his resources.

4. Normal Distribution
Holly Morgan (@Hollymog) made a Fill inwards the Gaps activity for standardising normal distribution.  It's corking to meet these ideas inwards usage at H5N1 level.

If you're looking for some actually challenging normal distribution questions to assay your brightest Year 13s in addition to hence endeavour searching for 'normal' inwards the STEP database.

5. New Lesson Resources
In my concluding events page for maths pedagogy conferences inwards 2019/20.

The Peterborough conference was the solar daytime afterward the Harris Federation Oct Conference at the ExCeL Centre inwards London. Here I am alongside 3 out of my iv maths colleagues from Harris Academy Sutton (yes, nosotros are currently an all-female maths department!):

In the starting fourth dimension component subdivision of my half-term intermission I had a lovely chilled out calendar week at dwelling identify alongside my daughters. The instant calendar week of half-term (when my daughters were dorsum at school) was total on. Craig Barton in addition to I ran ii Marvellous Maths courses (one at my schoolhouse in addition to i inwards Halifax) in addition to I likewise spent an afternoon recording ii of my Topics inwards Depth workshops, video-podcast style, at the TES offices inwards Sheffield.

Marvellous Maths was a lot of fun to run. Thank you lot to all the 200+ delegates who joined us. I promised I'd part my presentations, which you lot tin download here. H5N1 lot of you lot were shout out for for a re-create of the brilliant AQA quiz - you lot tin download it here in addition to the answers are here.

Thank you lot to everyone who supported us this week. It was the starting fourth dimension time Craig in addition to I had run our ain course. We felt it went good hence nosotros mightiness create it i time again adjacent year. Special thank you lot to AQA, John Catt, White Rose, the MA in addition to Izak9. Primary in addition to prep schoolhouse teachers should banking corporation check out Izak9 (@AbacusandHelix) - actually interesting classroom resources that I'd never seen before.

Finally, an update on some recent posts in addition to some things that are coming up:

• I blogged nearly the blog post - this i looks at diverse ways of thinking nearly how to brand functions in addition to equations out of pairs of equivalent ratios.
  
  
  2. Berwick Maths
  Joe Berwick (@BerwickMaths) launched a novel website berwickmaths.com where he shares the worked examples he uses inwards lessons from Key Stage 3 upwards to Key Stage 5. Read the homepage in addition to Joe's blog for to a greater extent than information on what it's all about.
  
  
  3. Interleaving
  Jason Steele (@steelemaths) shared a ready of tasks where topics are interleaved - for instance the chore below is nearly expanding in addition to simplifying but likewise gives students the chance to revisit fraction operations. You tin download this from TES. Check out Jason's Twitter feed for to a greater extent than of his resources.
  
  
  
  4. Normal Distribution
  Holly Morgan (@Hollymog) made a Fill inwards the Gaps activity for standardising normal distribution.  It's corking to meet these ideas inwards usage at H5N1 level.
  
  
  If you're looking for some actually challenging normal distribution questions to assay your brightest Year 13s in addition to hence endeavour searching for 'normal' inwards the STEP database.
  
  5. New Lesson Resources
  In my concluding MA Easter Conference (which I'm actually excited about!), blog post - this i looks at diverse ways of thinking nearly how to brand functions in addition to equations out of pairs of equivalent ratios.
  
  
  2. Berwick Maths
  Joe Berwick (@BerwickMaths) launched a novel website berwickmaths.com where he shares the worked examples he uses inwards lessons from Key Stage 3 upwards to Key Stage 5. Read the homepage in addition to Joe's blog for to a greater extent than information on what it's all about.
  
  
  3. Interleaving
  Jason Steele (@steelemaths) shared a ready of tasks where topics are interleaved - for instance the chore below is nearly expanding in addition to simplifying but likewise gives students the chance to revisit fraction operations. You tin download this from TES. Check out Jason's Twitter feed for to a greater extent than of his resources.
  
  
  
  4. Normal Distribution
  Holly Morgan (@Hollymog) made a Fill inwards the Gaps activity for standardising normal distribution.  It's corking to meet these ideas inwards usage at H5N1 level.
  
  
  If you're looking for some actually challenging normal distribution questions to assay your brightest Year 13s in addition to hence endeavour searching for 'normal' inwards the STEP database.
  
  5. New Lesson Resources
  In my concluding reflections from my provide to Key Stage 3 teaching, in addition to my dad. 

• It's Maths Week England on 11th - 16th November.  There are a issue of competitions that your students tin learn involved in, listed here. For instance MEI are running a Desmos Maths Art contest - students in addition to teachers tin win a Desmos T-shirt in addition to a pizza political party for their class. 

• Have you lot visited Don Steward's website recently? He's been posting lots of lovely novel tasks. 

• At solely £1.99  for many hours of maths entertainment, you'd endure crazy non to download MEI's Sumaze! Adventure app. Like the other Sumaze! apps, it's brilliant.

• Cambridge Maths launched a novel app called Define It. Every calendar week they seat out a mathematical discussion alongside several possible definitions for you lot to rate. They desire users to aid them honor the best definitions.

• I'm rattling excited nearly Big MathsJam which takes identify iv weeks today. It is my favourite effect of the year. And non merely because the nutrient is hence good.

• My majority is even hence inwards production but I'm hopeful it volition endure out earlier Christmas (fingers crossed!). You tin social club it in addition to read early on reviews here.