5 Maths Gems #107

Welcome to my 107^th gems post. This is where I portion closed to of the latest news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.

1. Foundation GCSE Revision
Thank yous to Edexcel for providing a helpful compendium of one-mark questions from Foundation tier papers from the terminal iv examine series. These tin live on downloaded from the Emporium.

Foundation GCSE teachers powerfulness likewise live on interested inwards the revision clips from a novel serial called 'The Maths Show'. This serial is produced past times BBC Teach in addition to features Matt Parker (@standupmaths).

If you're preparing students for their GCSE exams in addition to thus don't forget I accept a large collection of revision resources here.

2. Year half-dozen Maths Resources

Thanks to Mr Morgs (Emporium.

Foundation GCSE teachers powerfulness likewise live on interested inwards the revision clips from a novel serial called 'The Maths Show'. This serial is produced past times BBC Teach in addition to features Matt Parker (@standupmaths).

If you're preparing students for their GCSE exams in addition to thus don't forget I accept a large collection of revision resources Gems 102.

Update
I'm looking forrad to speaking at ii conferences this week: Primary Maths London on Fri where I'm speaking most angles, in addition to Educating Northants on Sabbatum where I'm speaking most methods. Look out for a Conference Takeaways podcast amongst Craig Barton on Saturday.

Last weekend I spent the twenty-four threescore minutes menses amongst Megan Guinan at the Habs Girls conference where I peculiarly enjoyed the keynotes from Lucy Crehan in addition to Vic Goodard.

If you're looking to attend a conference inwards the summertime term in addition to thus at that spot are lots to conduct from - depository fiscal establishment fit out my events page for listings. I'm speaking at researchED Rugby which has a neat maths strand in addition to at the MEI Conference which has 3 days of vivid workshops for teachers of Key Stage 3, 4 in addition to 5.

If you're a principal instructor in addition to thus yous powerfulness live on interested inwards the launch of the 'First Mathematics Challenge' - a national maths contest aimed at children inwards Years 3 in addition to 4.

I shared the word on Twitter that a calculator is forthwith available that allows students to secretly access the meshing in addition to ship messages during an exam. It may live on a hoax, exactly if it's existent in addition to thus nosotros necessitate to dice on an oculus out for these. The transcend sticker tin live on peeled off thus it looks similar a Casio. It's quite expensive, addition a huge conduct chances for students, thus let's promise that stops this from becoming a problem!

Have yous seen this website all most the history of Smile Maths resources? It's total of interesting stuff.

I'll locomote out yous amongst this visual prompt from @MathIsVisual which is designed to become pupils thinking most the expanse of a triangle.

5 Maths Gems #108

Welcome to my 108^th gems post. This is where I part around of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers.

1. SMP
Christian Bokhove (@cbokhove) together with his squad direct hold been working on this projection for a acre hence it's exciting to encounter the launch of smp2.co.uk. They direct hold created PDFs of dozens of onetime SMP maths textbooks together with booklets. Read almost the aims of the projection here.

Click ‘Access to SMP’ to register together with download the materials. It's gratis together with there's absolutely loads of fabric to await through. It's difficult to know where to start! I'm really grateful to those involved for all their difficult operate on this.

Here's a randomly picked event of a chore on estimator use. It's from Book G1.

And here's business office of a chore from a Level 3 booklet 'Coordinates 2 - Extension'.

2. Storyboarding
Thank y'all to Dale Chapman (Gems 30 back inward 2015, simply after forgot all almost it hence this is a non bad reminder! Plus it's skillful to encounter it inward role for bearings, together with I wonder what other topics would lend themselves good to storyboarding.

3. GCSE Revision
As ever at this fourth dimension of twelvemonth there's been a flurry of novel revision resources.

• Grant from Access Maths (Gems 106. 
• I snuff it along to regularly update my GCSE revision resources page. Throughout the examination catamenia I volition maintain a permanent link to this page at the exceed correct of resourceaholic.com.

4. Fill inward the Gaps
At Educating Northants final calendar week Craig Barton (@mrbartonmaths) shared a novel type of resource: Fill inward the Gaps. We had a larn at it during the workshop together with it was brilliant. Try it together with you'll encounter what I mean.

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Update
I've been to 3 lovely conferences inward the final 2 weeks - Habs Girls, Educating Northants together with the London Thames Hub Primary Maths Conference.

At Educating Northants I recorded a Conference Takeaways podcast alongside Craig Barton that y'all tin hear to here.

I likewise went out alongside my friends Gill Leahy together with Dil Dias from the London Thames Maths Hub to encounter Hannah Fry produce a verbalise almost her mass Hello World. It was brilliant.

During Educating Northants I went to a workshop on top dog mastery past times Nicky Moksa together with she shared this grid of expose facts. You tin read to a greater extent than almost it on the NCETM website here together with here.

Facts that should survive automatic past times the halt of Year 2 #EducatingNorthants pic.twitter.com/ufrCdidvJi

— Jo Morgan (@mathsjem) 30 March 2019

I direct hold made quite a few updates to my conferences page lately - there's ever a lot going on inward the summertime term. I'm looking forrard to speaking at the Kent together with Medway Secondary Maths Conference on Mon eighth July.

Nikki Martin (@nikki_nzmartin) completed her operate on the Primary Topics inward Depth project. This serial of packs characteristic maths misconceptions, approaches together with resources for Years 1 - 6.

My daughters discovered Sumaze Primary final calendar week which was awesome - my vii twelvemonth onetime was totally inward honey alongside it together with actually happy when she completed every level. It's an amazing maths app for immature children.

I await forrard to seeing lots of y'all at the ATM/MA conference which is coming upwards soon. Before then, I'm really much looking forrard to around fourth dimension alongside my identify unit of measurement to recover from the hectic calendar month of March.

Finally, I'll larn out y'all alongside the exciting word that Desmos instantly does box plots! If y'all haven't seen this earlier together with hence produce direct hold a play.

Foundation Tier Revision Resources

I've been instruction a fair amount of Foundation tier GCSE this year. It feels similar in that place are fewer revision resources available for Foundation tier compared to Higher tier, thus I've collected closed to together inwards this ship service for repose of access. There's zero novel hither - it's all inwards my epic GCSE revision resources collection - only hopefully this ship service volition remind teachers of closed to of the things that are available to operate inwards the classroom inwards the lastly few weeks earlier exams start.

Ruler booklets
These booklets from tannermaths.co.uk were designed for the onetime GCSE only are however real useful. They incorporate loads of wordy questions, including a fair few on ratio together with proportion. They are good presented together with come upwardly amongst answers.

Revision mats

Everyone loves a resources printed on A3! There are a issue of Foundation revision mats available from sources such every bit Access Maths, PixiMaths together with Miss B's Resources. I of late used these from TES for telephone commutation Foundation skills. I similar it that they are editable - every bit I went through together with worked out the answers I tweaked a few questions together with changed the club a bit. I'm a big fan of editable resources!

I create got also made my ain educate of revision mats amongst 4 unlike difficulty levels that you lot tin download from TES: there's a calculator version 1, a calculator version 2 together with a non-calculator version.

Also cheque out my 'workouts' for Foundation tier students - these are 'print budget friendly' revision activities that tin live printed onto a unmarried side of A4.

Confidence boosters
The maths squad from Edexcel (@EmporiumMaths) have of late shared sets of 'Practice Tests: Aiming for 4'. These vi papers comprise Grade 1- 3 questions from Foundation past times papers inwards club of difficulty every bit establish past times students (ie they maiden off amongst the questions that nigh students got right). These are intended every bit a confidence booster for students aiming for a Grade 4.

On Access Maths you lot tin also honour a educate of 'Start amongst Confidence' resources which incorporate 'opening page' questions.

Booklets

TES user scottyknowles18 shared a educate of key skills booklets for Foundation pupils. At piece of job this twelvemonth I was asked to brand a PowerPoint to accompany his algebra booklet. I designed the PowerPoint to live used inwards cast fourth dimension interventions only it tin live used inwards lessons too. Each department includes telephone commutation points, a span of examples for the instructor to become through, a diagnostic enquiry together with answers.

The maths squad from Delta Trust create got also shared Foundation 'Securing a Grade' Revision Booklets on TES.

Useful websites

CorbettMaths has 5-a-day activities (numeracy, foundation together with foundation plus) addition practise questions together with practise papers. Maths Genie has questions past times theme too. MathsBot has GCSE revision tools where you lot tin adjust resources thus the questions are suitable for your students. MathsBox has loads of helpful resources for Foundation tier, including a span of freebies: there's a Big Mistake activity together with a Foundation relay.

Breakfast revision

Last twelvemonth I made iii sets of breakfast revision resources for Foundation tier students:

Non estimator breakfast warm up

Calculator breakfast warm upwardly (set Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 together with B)

They are non designed for a specific board or seek out serial thus tin live used every year. They are intended to live printed on A3 together with used every bit a warm upwardly on the morning time of the exam. I included editable versions (so you lot tin take the give-and-take 'breakfast' if you lot desire to operate them inwards class) together with answers.

Topic tests together with seek out questions
Also create got a await at what your seek out board provides. For event a issue of AQA seek out questions over the lastly ii years create got been similar to questions seen inwards their collection of theme tests. So using questions from the theme tests inwards revision mightiness live a skilful idea! And for Edexcel, the Emporium has a issue of useful resources. Look inwards the GCSE folder marked 'Practice Papers & Questions' together with you lot volition honour resources such every bit collections of crossover questions, i grade questions from Foundation papers together with themed papers.

Self quizzing
If your pupils don't know their facts together with formulae thus they mightiness honour my Foundation Knowledge Quiz volume useful. Schools tin purchase inwards mass for £5 per book. These books are especially helpful for pupils who would otherwise produce zero at domicile - it gives them a real easy-to-use resources for independent study.

Between exams
Given that this twelvemonth nosotros create got a relatively curt fourth dimension dorsum at schoolhouse afterward Easter earlier exams start, I volition in all probability become straightaway into mixed theme revision lessons (as opposed to the topic focused lessons I create got been doing until now). I volition especially focus on non-calculator topics inwards the lastly calendar week of normal lessons earlier their GCSEs start.  Between exams, when nosotros volition occasionally run into pupils on the days they don't create got exams, I volition live using the resources that are published every twelvemonth (by real helpful people) to revise the topics that haven't yet come upwardly up (I'm certain Adam Creen volition proceed rail of these on his blog).

See my revision resources posts for to a greater extent than resources - addition in that place are loads to a greater extent than on TES. Good luck for the terminal few weeks amongst Year 11!

#Atmma19

This calendar week I spent 4 days at the ATM-MA Conference. It was great! I went to a broad diverseness of sessions as well as receive got come upward abode amongst a lot to reverberate on. In my electrical current purpose (working mainly to improve Year xi results) I experience similar I've started to lose sight of what mathematics teaching is all about. Next yr I'll endure teaching alone Year vii as well as 8 as well as am looking forrad to trying some novel approaches. This conference presented the perfect chance to get together my thoughts.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 residential conference is a really unlike experience to the ane solar daytime events I ordinarily attend. There were numerous opportunities to create lots of maths as well as run across lots of novel people. I enjoyed the social activities as well as I was impressed past times the venue as well as the agency the conference was organised past times the ATM.

I'm a trustee of The Mathematical Association as well as really proud to stand upward for them at events similar this. The members of MA Council are lovely as well as I believe that the operate they create is genuinely of import to our profession. Not alone create they receive got an incredibly rich history going dorsum to 1871, but they also receive got exciting times ahead amongst Ems Lord of Nrich every bit President as well as Hannah Fry every bit President Designate. If yous desire to join, secondary membership is alone £5.20 a month. I'm already looking forrad to the ii nighttime MA Conference inwards 2020 which I'm absolutely certainly volition endure awesome. I promise that lots of my readers volition bring together me there.

I've decided to job this weblog post to part v ideas as well as resources I saw at #ATMMA19. Obviously I'm non sharing whatsoever of the large ideas as well as deep thinking inwards a brusque weblog post - yous receive got to genuinely drib dead to these conferences for that variety of affair - but at that spot powerfulness endure a few helpful things hither that people haven't seen before. I enjoyed literally every unmarried session I attended at this conference as well as haven't talked most them all inwards this post, but create receive got a psyche to me as well as Craig Barton chatting most the first two days of the conference on Craig's podcast:

Conference Takeaway - #ATMMA19 Day 1

Conference Takeaway - #ATMMA19 Day 2

1. Etudes
Colin Foster did an splendid opening plenary. Here I'm but sharing ane activity nosotros had a drib dead at during his talk: 'Percentage Change'. Visit his website mathematicaletudes.com for lots to a greater extent than similar this. You genuinely receive got to receive got a drib dead at these tasks to larn how goodness they are. The thought is that students railroad train procedural fluency inwards rich job solving contexts.

2. Nrich
Craig as well as I had a dandy fourth dimension at the Nrich workshop run past times Alison Kiddle as well as Charlie Gilderdale. We did 3 tasks which are all linked from the conference page on the Nrich website.

In Which is Bigger?  students tin endeavor out some numbers, create some algebra, describe some graphs... it tin drib dead inwards a position out of directions. Consider how sketching the graphs powerfulness assist yous mean value most the concluding ii pairs of expressions above. The describe comes amongst some dandy extension activities which I genuinely enjoyed completing.

Polygon rings was a highlight of the conference for me! I dear a chip of angle geometry. I especially liked how fun it was to position together our polygon rings using ATM Mats, knowing amongst absolute certainty that they would agree together perfectly because we'd worked out the angles.

3. SMILE

Steve Lyon as well as Mike Anderson from STEM Centre ran a session inwards which nosotros all got to receive got a drib dead at some tasks from sometime SMILE resources as well as thus beak most which tasks nosotros enjoyed. There are c2000 SMILE resources which receive got been scanned inwards as well as uploaded to the STEM Centre website. It's an overwhelming position out of resources thus a goodness house to start is amongst the SMILE cards here which are organised past times topic. 

There were a position out of delegates inwards this session who had never heard of SMILE. I job SMILE resources occasionally but I know at that spot are hundreds I've never seen. The resources that Steve as well as Mike had chosen for this session are inwards booklets here. I didn't endeavor all of them but especially enjoyed 'Multiplication Review' (SMILE Card 2386) where students are asked to seem at v unlike multiplication methods as well as endeavor to sympathise what's going on. Although I'd looked at 'Russian Peasant Multiplication' earlier I'd never genuinely taken the fourth dimension to mean value most why it works. It was a overnice affair to operate out.

If yous similar this thus also cheque out this vivid pack of SMILE activities 'Standards Unit a fair chip but had non seen the 'Dissecting a Square' task.

Students are asked to operate out what fraction as well as pct of the foursquare each department is. When looking at this describe nosotros had some interesting discussions most what prior cognition is required, what reasoning is involved, as well as what assumptions must endure made to consummate it. Following this describe students are asked to brand upward their ain dissection on a grid amongst 100 squares - this becomes a genuinely interesting describe for agreement percentages. Some dandy examples are also provided for cast discussion.

Although I was introduced to the Standards Unit on my PGCE it took me a quite a few years to realise that instead of but using the tasks, I should genuinely read the suggested approaches as well as give-and-take prompts that drib dead amongst each task. The resources as well as their accompanying notes are absolutely brilliant.

We did a lot to a greater extent than inwards Heather's session that genuinely got me thinking, but I volition but get upward ane to a greater extent than affair here: Heather gave us a 'what's the same, what's different?' flick to ponder:

I noticed that both shapes had ane duo of parallel sides. Heather started the give-and-take past times holler for who had spotted the most boring affair that these shapes had inwards common. I was most to offering my proffer because I thought it was going to endure a pretty mutual answer, but thus others offered answers similar 'they're both shapes' as well as 'they're the same colour'. Then it got a chip competitive, amongst people trying to come upward up amongst something fifty-fifty to a greater extent than boring. And every bit a consequence I started noticing to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than things most these shapes. The dandy affair most this start to a give-and-take is that it gets fifty-fifty the most reluctant or to the lowest degree confident students contributing, noticing things, as well as smiling. What a lovely idea.

5. Don Steward

It was wonderful to watch Don Steward again. I kickoff met him when he presented at my schoolhouse dorsum inwards March 2016. His workshop was on probability - he spoke most its house inwards the curriculum, showed us some wonderful tasks for teaching it, as well as shared some fascinating historical context.  He has shared his presentation inwards 3 weblog posts:

Probability

Probability history

Probability history (2)

Obviously there's loads of dandy materials hither thus yous should download the presentations. In this post I'm but sharing a few extracts.

This query is lovely: 

Students tin of class endeavor some numbers, though I hold off that most teachers would drib dead direct for algebra.

Don's laid of 'probability as well as words' tasks are dandy fun. I receive got used these before. 

Don's ideas on teaching systematic listing are fantastic. For example, hither is ane agency of thinking most the ordering of A, B as well as C.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 overnice thought when teaching students systematic listing is to nowadays them amongst lists amongst bits missing:

And cheque out how beautifully animated this is:

There is thus much to a greater extent than to beak most from this presentation but I can't part the whole lot here! So create cheque out all of Don's slides on his blog.

My Presentations

I presented twice on Wednesday. First I did a v infinitesimal slot during David Acheson's beak 'Proof past times Chocolate etc'. I spoke most amusing contexts from sometime maths textbooks. Later I did my ain 1.5 hr presentation on the development of vocabulary inwards maths teaching. I powerfulness nowadays some of that at La Salle's adjacent conference inwards Sheffield thus I'm non sharing the slides on here. If yous were at the presentation experience gratuitous to e-mail me for a copy.

I receive got every chance to nowadays at conferences for ii reasons - kickoff because I'm ever thus excited to part all the fascinating materials I've found, as well as minute because I mean value it's genuinely of import that both women as well as classroom teachers position themselves forrad to speak at educational activity events. We can't complain most beingness underrepresented if nosotros don't volunteer to speak. At this conference, where anyone was welcome to submit a workshop proposal, I worked out that most 43% of the speakers were female. That's non bad, but given that our profession is dominated past times women, nosotros could create better. I genuinely really encourage all teachers, especially females, to consider submitting a presentation for adjacent year's conferences when the fourth dimension comes. If yous receive got a detail surface area of expertise, or create something interesting inwards your classroom, or if you've done some research, or yous desire to part some dandy tasks as well as activities, thus delight create larn involved.

Finally, listeners of the podcast volition know that Craig as well as I were rather hopeful that nosotros powerfulness win the quiz over again afterwards in conclusion year's surprise victory. We pulled together a dandy squad (me, Craig, Andrew Taylor, David McEwan as well as David Bedford), as well as hither nosotros are all looking rather optimistic at the start of the night:

We definitely chose the incorrect circular to play our joker, but nosotros even thus ended upward coming 3rd which made me really happy because nosotros won Easter eggs! Well done to the teams that came kickoff as well as minute (including our quiz nemesis, the lovely Alison Kiddle) - really good played.

I also desire to state give thank yous you to Jen Shackley, Andy Sharpe, Ben Sparks as well as David Bedford for keeping me fellowship at as well as afterwards the slightly bonkers (but delightful) opened upward mic trial on the in conclusion nighttime of the conference. What fabulous people.

See yous all over again adjacent time!

5 Maths Gems #109

Welcome to my 109^th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers.

1. Task
Simon Gregg‏ (@Simon_Gregg) tweeted virtually the Nrich chore 'Shape Times Shape'. The coloured shapes correspond xi of the numbers from 0 to 12. Each shape is a dissimilar issue - pupils bring to operate out which is which. Read Simon's thread to take away heed the reasoning of the children he teaches.

Hannah (Year vii Maths Activities which lists ideas for outset lessons inwards September.

2. New Website
Thank you lot to @goteachmaths for sharing their novel website goteachmaths.co.uk.

This site has gratis resources for over 500 topics every bit good every bit clone questions from previous GCSE exams.

There's lots to explore here.

3. Enrichment
Thanks to Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (@aoibhinn_ni_s) for sharing the latest edition of 'Maths Sparks' - together with cheers to Geoff Wake for tweeting virtually it. This resources majority is published yesteryear the University of Dublin.

This edition contains activities amongst origami, logic programming, cryptography together with other topics that you lot tin create inwards degree or inwards after-school clubs.

4. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Level
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few novel Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bird resources have been shared recently:

• SandraD (@mathsbox1) shared gratis Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bird revision notes for pure, statistics together with mechanics.
• Like concluding year, CrashMaths (@crashMATHS_CM) volition endure sharing a revision enquiry countdown to the AS Maths exams starting on the quaternary May 2019.
• Mo Ladak (Gems 107)
• Tom Bennison (
  
  • #ATMMA19
  • Foundation Tier Revision Resources
  
  I also passed my v millionth spider web log visit! And tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of resourceaholic.com.
  
  I'll endure assist a issue of conferences inwards the summertime term:
  
  • Saturday 15th June: researchED Rugby 2019 (presenting on multiplication)
  • Saturday 22nd June: The Complete Mathematics Conference (presenting on the development of vocabulary inwards maths education).
  • Saturday 29th June: MEI Conference (presenting on Key Stage iii together with 4 resources).
  • Monday eighth July: Kent together with Medway Secondary Maths Conference (presenting a plenary on mathematical methods).

I promise to meet you lot at these events! Also relieve the appointment for side yesteryear side year's MA Easter conference. It's going to endure at an amazing venue inwards Bedfordshire. It's exclusively 2 nights which volition hopefully acquire far to a greater extent than affordable together with accessible to many teachers. If you've never been to a residential conference earlier thus mayhap give this i a try - it's a real dissimilar sense to a i twenty-four lx minutes menstruum event.


Often things come upwards up on Twitter that I've blogged virtually inwards previous gems posts. Recently I talked on Craig's podcast virtually using Equation Editor shortcuts, together with afterward that at that spot was a flurry of posts virtually it, specially from brain teachers on Twitter together with Facebook. As a consequence of the renewed interest, Dan Rodriguez-Clark‏ (@InteractMaths) created a Guide to using Equation Editor inwards Word together with Powerpoint which includes things I hadn't seen before. Thank you lot Dan!

And inwards instance you lot took Easter off social media, hither are another recent shares that you lot mightiness bring missed:

• Naveen Rizvi @naveenfrizvi shared the booklets she has used for teaching algebra, equations together with fractions. Naveen received a lot of requests to portion these booklets afterward her podcast amongst Craig Barton. Read to a greater extent than inwards this post on Naveen's blog.
• Edexcel shared a Teacher's Guide to Command Words.
• PG Online (@pgonlinepub) released an examiner's study summary for maths GCSE.
• I discovered some A02/A03 resources on AQA's All About Maths that I intend to role for GCSE revision (they bring been at that spot for years but I've exclusively only spotted them!).
• I tweeted virtually a cool means to create algebraic segmentation - you lot tin meet it explained here.

Thank you lot to Jamie Frost for hosting drinks at his describe of piece of occupation solid together with dinner at his local pub - it's ever a pleasance to hang out amongst maths teachers.

Finally, I'll acquire out you lot amongst this awesome  interactive history of maths timeline on the wonderful site mathigon.org. This is the best maths timeline I've seen. Thank you lot to @MEIMaths for sharing this.

Gem Awards 2019

Last calendar week it was resourceaholic.com's 5th birthday! It's larn a tradition for me to grade the anniversary of my weblog past times publishing an annual 'Gem Awards' post. Here I await dorsum at all the ideas I've shared inwards my gems posts over the end yr in addition to pick out some of my favourites. Each category has a winner in addition to a exceptional mention.

1. Best GCSE Support
This accolade goes to the website Gems 89. This gratis site made past times maths teachers has over 200 lessons matched to the GCSE specification, each amongst examples, do exercises, misconceptions, in addition to exam-style problems. I blogged nearly it i time to a greater extent than inwards Gems 103 when I discovered that a issue of lessons comprise examples in addition to non-examples.

I honey this website because it ridiculously slowly to occupation (no login is required in addition to you lot tin forcefulness out navigate inwards seconds using the search tool) in addition to covers the entire secondary maths curriculum. I occupation this website quite oftentimes - I borrow bits in addition to pieces from lessons to include inwards mine.

Special advert to David Morse who won the 'Best New GCSE Resources' Gem Award end year. He continues to hit high character resources in addition to has lately re-launched his website, every bit featured inwards Gems 106.

2. Best New Blog
This accolade goes to maths instructor Mr Rowlandson (Best New Online Tool, they've added to a greater extent than interactive resources to aid teachers amongst their explanations. Recent additions include tools in addition to slides for plans in addition to elevations, container filling, pie charts in addition to 3D Pythagoras. I uncovering these actually helpful. As I've said many times before, if you lot convey the budget hence MathsPad is good worth subscribing to.

Special advert to BossMaths (@boss_maths) for the ready-to-use Geogebra resources which are built into a issue of their lessons. When I tweeted nearly numberless protractors, Sudeep from BossMaths replied lead away amongst a handy numberless protractor applet that he made using Geogebra.

7. Best New Website
This accolade goes to Jonathan Hall for the website Gems 95. There are 4 sections on this website: Compare, Odd One Out, Frayer Model in addition to Multiple Choice Quiz.

Like Jonathan's other websites, it's really slowly to use. For instance when I was explaining outside angles to my students, I showed them this:

Special advert to Craig Barton's website Gems 104:

This was shared past times a colleague of Tom Bennison (@DrBennison) in addition to prettified past times puzzle original Ed Southall (@solvemymaths). Given it's a square, uncovering the marked angle. I actually similar this - it doesn't involve whatsoever cognition beyond top dog schoolhouse angle facts only it's actually satisfying to solve. 

9. Mathematics Award

This accolade goes to Nicholas Rougeux's (Gems 101 for to a greater extent than on this.

Special advert to Mathigon, which won my 2015 Gem Award for Best Website. The novel content on this site is brilliant, including the interactive Gems 106 for to a greater extent than on Mathigon.

10. Lifetime Achievement Award
My previous lifetime achievement awards convey gone to Don Steward, John Corbett in addition to Jonathan Hall. This yr my lifetime achievement accolade goes to the wonderfully talented Chris Smith (@aap03102).

Chris teaches maths at Grange Academy inwards Kilmarnock in addition to contributes absolutely tonnes to the global maths teaching community. His weekly maths newsletter goes to or hence 3000 subscribers in addition to is guaranteed to cheer upward my Fridays. His resources are bright in addition to his jokes are terrible. Chris won Scottish Teacher of the Year 2018 which was really good deserved. Chris has a pivotal purpose Maths Week Scotland, runs an annual maths military camp for his students, does crazy things on Pi Day, in addition to lots more.

If you lot haven't listened to Chris existence interviewed past times Craig Barton on the podcast hence you lot must - he is hence incredibly positive in addition to passionate, it actually makes you lot recollect in addition to appreciate the joy of maths teaching. Chris is also an inspirational populace speaker in addition to I really much promise to run across him utter inwards both Scotland in addition to England inwards the close future.

As good every bit existence total of bright ideas, Chris is a wonderfully sort in addition to generous person. He is an inspirational instructor in addition to he makes a massive contribution to the maths community. No uncertainty he volition hold to do hence for years to come. On behalf of all maths teachers I'd similar to give thank you lot Chris for everything he does. What a superstar. 

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There are many people who I've non mentioned hither who convey helped to fill upward my gems posts amongst resources in addition to ideas over the past times year. Thank you lot to all of them for their ongoing contribution to maths education. I actually appreciate the lengths people perish to percentage their move every bit widely every bit possible hence that nosotros all benefit. I've been on Twitter for 5 years right away in addition to hold to experience privileged to hold upward business office of such a welcoming in addition to generous community. Thank you lot also to the people who convey encouraged in addition to supported me over the end yr - it's been actually tough at times, only there's been lots of highlights (LateMaths, Humble Pi in addition to Big MathsJam to scream only a few).

If you're novel to my weblog in addition to you lot enjoyed this postal service hence see my Gem Awards 2018, Gem Awards 2017, Gem Awards 2016 in addition to Gem Awards 2015 to run across who has won awards previously.

Happy 5th birthday resourceaholic.com. Thank you lot to my readers for all the support!