Hello as well as welcome to my 29th Maths Gems. This is where I part v education ideas as well as resources I've seen on Twitter.
1. Nix the Tricks Videos I've long been a fan of the mass Nix the Tricks - I intend it should live compulsory reading for all trainee maths teachers. I'm excited to meet that Owen Tabbert (@OTmath) is making a serial of Nix the Tricks videos for teachers. I intend these videos are going to live incredibly useful - non alone for non-specialists as well as anyone preparing to learn maths for the offset time, but besides for experienced teachers reflecting on how they explicate mathematical concepts. There's alone ii videos thus far, but to a greater extent than to come. This video nearly the concept of 'borrowing' inwards subtraction is excellent:
2. #AlmostMondayMaths I like @OxfordEdMaths' novel tweeting initiative. Every Lord's Day at 7.15pm they tweet a maths enquiry for teachers to role inwards the calendar week ahead, using the hashtag #AlmostMondayMaths. Here's a duet of examples of what they've shared thus far:
#AlmostMondayMaths - rounding
#AlmostMondayMaths - algebra
3. Radians as well as Quadrants Thanks to Meg Craig (Unit Circle as well as Radians' from Math Teacher Mambo (@MTMambo) which is nearly education radians using cut-out pieces representing diverse angles (π/4, π/3, π/6 etc).
When I learn Year 12 students to role a quadrant when solving trigonometric equations, they (just about!) empathise where to draw angles inwards degrees but honour it actually difficult to operate inwards radians. I've previously written nearly helping students to understand radians, but I've non seen this lovely template approach before.
4. Problems from MathsPad MathsPad is ane of my favourite resources websites. I'm actually pleased that James (@MathsPadJames) and Nicola (@MathsPadNicola) from MathsPad are straightaway on Twitter because they're amount of expert ideas. Do banking concern lucifer out the problems as well as weblog posts that James tweets, similar this cuboid problem:
The website MathsPad has lots of gratis resources as well as the residual are available for a modest subscription charge. All of their resources are excellent.
5. Grange Maths Camp
I'm really impressed past times the dedication of Chris Smith (@aap03102) as well as his colleagues who gave upwards a weekend to run a maths army camp for their Sixth Form students. I'm besides impressed that thus many students attended - I can't fifty-fifty larn my students to attend a xxx infinitesimal lunchtime revision session! If yous haven't even thus read Chris' report of the sense as well as then create direct keep a hold back - it's inspiring stuff. It sounds similar Chris' students volition live really good prepared for their upcoming exams.
Update
I direct keep ane to a greater extent than calendar week amongst my Year 11s as well as 12s earlier they start Study Leave. In my terminal Year eleven maths lesson this Fri I excogitation to role this bright 'last year.
I'm a Year eleven cast tutor thus there's a lot going on this calendar week (including enough of cake eating!). Next calendar week I'll live making certain that the members of my tutor grouping larn to their GCSE exams on time. After one-half term I start my novel undertaking at Glyn School inwards Epsom (only iii weeks to become - it's been a long hold back since I was offered the undertaking inwards December!).
If yous learn GCSE classes as well as then I recommend yous read '#mathsconf2015 inwards Birmingham.
Although I've been adding lots of novel resources to my libraries, I've non written many novel weblog posts lately. That's because I've been actually busy both at schoolhouse as well as at home. It was my youngest daughter's Christening on Lord's Day thus I had to create a lot of organising. Now that's done I'll direct keep fourth dimension to write some posts - create permit me know if there's whatever specific topics you'd similar me to write about. Last fourth dimension I asked for shipping suggestions, I ended upwards writing iii challenging posts - algebra, fractions as well as calculus. I'm create for some other challenge!
Hello together with welcome to my 41st gems post. It's been ages since my final gems post, but I bring a proficient excuse! I've been utterly snowed nether alongside run and I've also been preoccupied alongside a real exciting project... I'm organising a Christmaths Party together with it's going to hold upward awesome. Details volition hold upward announced real soon. In the hateful time, here's some overnice ideas together with resources that bring been shared on Twitter over the final few weeks.
1. Rugby In instance you lot hadn't noticed, the Rugby World Cup is inwards total swing. My students are actually into it. I used the stadium capacity infographic below (shared yesteryear @amberlee902) inwards a lesson on important figures.
I similar this rugby enquiry from @thecmsp, which is aimed at post-16 students studying Core Maths. Thanks to my colleague @MissStokesMaths for showing me this one.
I also spotted the infographic below on mathsandelearning.wikispaces.com - this is a dandy teaching tool for pictographs. You could inquire your students what each symbol represents numerically.
2. Resources for high attainers
I read a post called 'My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.
There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.
3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from maths-starters.co.uk - the illustration below is laid to the laissez passer on difficulty level!
I honey My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.
There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.
3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from this post from Sarah Hagan (@mathequalslove) close some dandy ideas she saw on Twitter. It includes the awesome Ten Commandments of Mathematics pictured below, which is from Mrs Anderson (@MissPools).
I also similar this My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.
There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.
3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from write-up of my solar daytime at #mathsconf5
A My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.
There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.
3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from reflection on my curt fourth dimension teaching Foundation GCSE
Two posts close H5N1 flat resources (My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.
There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.
3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from A Level Resources and My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.
There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.
3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from A Level Resources #2). I was pleased to run into that Susan Ward (@suzekward), who attended my workshop at #mathsconf5, successfully used 1 of the resources I recommended:
Here's some other bits together with pieces that you lot powerfulness bring missed:
La Salle shared a gratis problem solving bookletwhich contains some lovely accessible problems.
Michael Tidd's postal service close changes to the Primary Maths curriculum is right away a TES article. Please read it if you lot haven't already - it's of import data for secondary maths teachers.
I enjoyed teaching surds to Year 10 final calendar week together with specially liked this novel surds puzzle from MathsPad:
I'm pleased to run into that loads of schools bring been using my 'Design a Clock' thought which featured inwards my My novel favourite website'. Huge thank you lot to Richard Tock (@TickTockMaths) for this post, inwards which he recommends the real helpful website DrFrostMaths.com. This website is written yesteryear Dr J Frost who is a maths instructor at Tiffin School (a grammer schoolhouse simply downwards the route from me). Dr Frost shares a huge release of his ain teaching resources, including PowerPoints, worksheets, homeworks together with quizzes. His worksheets are good designed for high attainers, incorporating both basic skills questions together with stretch questions. His website also has tips together with resources for students entering maths challenges such equally the JMO.
There's tonnes to explore on this website - here's an illustration of his Pythagoras exercises to give you lot an idea.
3. Skills Check
Thanks to Miss_Ren (@ReynoldsITT) for sharing her Skills Check, pictured below. This is a versatile activity that could hold upward used regularly, mayhap equally a starter or equally a mini-assessment. Students consummate the questions for values of a together with b given yesteryear the teacher. The values of a an b could hold upward given equally integers, fractions, decimals, numbers inwards touchstone form, powers, surds together with and then on. This industrial plant for a release of topics together with is a proficient agency to banking corporation tally key skills.
Another activity for practising key skills is this times tables grid from Open Evening post.
I started teaching a novel Year eleven degree final calendar week together with enjoyed making some other expectations video using VideoScribe (which my subdivision right away subscribes to, pregnant I tin brand to a greater extent than videos side yesteryear side year!).
Thanks for reading! I'll hold upward dorsum alongside to a greater extent than gems soon.
Hello together with welcome to my 49th gems post. This is where I part v maths teaching ideas together with furnish an update on some of the things that accept been happening inwards Great Britain maths education. 1. Revision Mats Grant Barker (@AccessMaths) has created some first-class revision mats. Like all of Grant's resources, these are real good designed.
For to a greater extent than GCSE revision resources, encounter my post service Higher GCSE Revision.
2. MathsBot
I've sung the praises of Jonathan Hall's (@StudyMaths) website formtimeideas.com many times before. If you're a cast tutor together with you lot don't know almost this website hence you're missing out! I've used it for tutor groups from Year vii through to Year 12. In add-on to formtimeideas.com, Jonathan runs some first-class maths websites - my favourite is Flash Maths.
It's worth checking out Jonathan's recent updates to MathsBot.com. This includes numerous helpful tools including a Starter Generator which allows you lot to choose topics together with difficulty level:
3. Key Marks
Thanks to Billy Adamson (@Billyads_47) for creating a 'Key marks earned inwards GCSEs' resource. These slides characteristic unproblematic strategies together with facts that Billy's students involve to acquire for their GCSE exams. Weekly testing over the side yesteryear side few months (for illustration alongside mini-whiteboards) volition hold out a skillful means to attention students memorise these primal points.
4. Truncation
Truncation is a novel GCSE topic. My colleague Rachel (@miss_middletonr) has a actually overnice means of helping students retrieve how to truncate numbers.
When I country I'm 35 years old, I haven't rounded my historic stream to the nearest integer. I've truncated my age. So when I country I'm 35, you lot know my historic stream is betwixt 35 together with 36:
35 ≤ age < 36
This is an incredibly straightforward together with accessible means to instruct fault intervals. Thank you lot for the consider Rachel!
5. Launch - Underground Maths If you've been next the progress of CMEP then you lot in all likelihood already know that their fantastic H5N1 bird resources are going to hold out hosted on the novel website undergroundmathematics.org which launches on Monday. Follow @UndergroundMath for updates. I honey their 'teddy bear' action for the equation of a circle.
Recommended Reading I recommend that you lot read these recent articles together with publications if you lot haven't already:
Edexcel's novel Maths GCSE Assessment Guide. I flora it interesting to read that formulae volition hold out given inwards the enquiry rather than on a formula sheet. Also, although it's non novel information, the judgement "Previously, 25% of questions were targeted at A/A*, merely directly 50% of questions inwards each newspaper are targeted at the equivalent grades, 7–9" reminded me of the meaning stride upwards inwards difficulty of the novel GCSEs.
This is my 56th update from the footing 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 as well as resources for teaching maths.
1. Euro 2016 Maths @dooranran makes lovely maths resources. I recollect teachers volition actually similar the activities he has prepared for Euro 2016. Topics include vectors, Pythagoras, trigonometry, angles on parallel lines, time, pie charts as well as estimating the mean.
3. Find soul who can @rondelle10_b shared an interesting visit which Phil Bruce (@pbrucemaths) adapted for maths. In 'Find Someone Who Can', students inquire other members of the flat to respond questions using the canvass pictured below. This develops students' mathematical communication skills equally they are required to explicate solutions to classmates. You tin plough over notice download the PDF from Phil's page of revision resources.
4. Colin Foster's Activities I discovered Colin Foster's 'Instant Maths Ideas' books a acre ago. I bask browsing through them every instantly as well as and thus - they're packed total of first-class tasks as well as questions.
For example, inward Possible or Impossible? students are asked to determine whether each disputation inward the tabular array below is possible or impossible. If it’s possible they are asked to plough over an illustration as well as if it's impossible they accept to tell why.
Another non bad activity, this fourth dimension from Colin's chapter on rounding, is this business which looks at diverse scenarios inward which students accept to calculate 17 ÷ 5. In each instance they accept to recollect carefully close how to circular their answer.
5. More from MathsPad
Another awesome costless resources from MathsPad: Using a Calculator - Odd One Out. This action addresses lots of mutual errors as well as misconceptions.
Updates I've written quite a lot of weblog posts since my terminal laid of gems. Here they are inward instance you lot missed them:
I've too added to a greater extent than or less H5N1 flat revision resources to TES - depository fiscal establishment tally out my TES Shop to download these for free.
There's loads going on inward June as well as July - encounter my conferences page for details. First upward for me is researchED Maths as well as Science inward Oxford on tenth June - the programme is first-class thus I'm actually looking forrad to it.
Bookings are instantly opened upward for my session at LIME Oldham on 20th June where I'll hold upward talking close quadratic methods. I too recommend that you lot majority a house at Edexcel's Warwick Conference where I'll hold upward presenting a session on 'The Wonderful World of Maths Resources'
Finally, I'll move out you lot amongst this laid of maths examination meme posters - I pose these upward inward my maths corridor a couplet of weeks as well as they went downwards actually good amongst students inward every twelvemonth group. They were created past times Paul Collins (here.
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!
Hello as well as welcome to my 29th Maths Gems. This is where I part v education ideas as well as resources I've seen on Twitter.
I'm really impressed past times the dedication of Chris Smith (@aap03102) as well as his colleagues who gave upwards a weekend to run a maths army camp for their Sixth Form students. I'm besides impressed that thus many students attended - I can't fifty-fifty larn my students to attend a xxx infinitesimal lunchtime revision session! If yous haven't even thus read Chris' report of the sense as well as then create direct keep a hold back - it's inspiring stuff. It sounds similar Chris' students volition live really good prepared for their upcoming exams. 
