5 Maths Gems #57

This is my 57^th update from the the world of Maths EduTwitter. If you're non a tweeter, or if you're wondering whether you've missed anything, here's a summary of unopen to of the latest ideas as well as resources for pedagogy maths.

1. Artful Maths
Clarissa Grandi (@c0mplexnumber) has created the delightful website artfulmaths.com. It provides resources as well as inspiration thus that children tin dismiss sense the beauty of mathematics. There's a large department on how to deliver arty maths lessons on topics such every bit Celtic Knotwork, Mazes as well as Labyrinths, as well as Insect Symmetry. There's likewise display ideas for maths classrooms, guidance on running an origami club, recommendations of puzzle games as well as lots more. Do banking concern jibe it out.

2. GCSE Paper 2
This jewel has a express shelf life but is nonetheless worth sharing for those of yous who encounter (or email) your Year 11s betwixt at nowadays as well as their instant GCSE newspaper on Thursday. Numerous helpful teachers convey created 'best guess' papers for the upcoming exam, based on the topics that came upward inward Paper 1. Superstar Emma Bell (@EJmaths) has collated them here. The collection covers both Higher as well as Foundation for Edexcel, OCR as well as AQA. It's good worth sharing the relevant papers amongst your students thus they tin dismiss focus their examination grooming on the topics that are most probable to locomote tested.

Some of these papers are from novel website onmaths.com - this website forthwith marks students' answers thus is specially useful for independent study. Thanks to Nikki (@mathszest) for commencement making me aware of this website.

3. Odd + Odd 

I only dearest this cute 'proof' shared by @ProfSmudge.

4. Maths Quickies
The Twitter account @MathsMastery tweets a daily #MathsQuickie like the illustration shown below.

Thanks to Mark Greenaway (@suffolkmaths) for pulling together these questions (and their answers) inward PDFs as well as PowerPoints - they tin dismiss locomote downloaded here. 

5. Parallel Lines
Don Steward has shared yet unopen to other fantastic resources on his wonderful weblog Median. His PowerPoint as well as tasks for angles inward parallel lines are excellent.

Update

If you're doing whatever revision amongst GCSE, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grade or Certificate of Further Maths students over the coming weeks, create banking concern jibe out my growing collection of revision clocks.

If you're currently pedagogy Year x thus yous mightiness locomote interested inward my recent post: Useful GCSE Questions from Linked Pair Papers.

Tom Bennison's summertime effect for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grade teachers at nowadays has a website. The East Midlands KS5 Mathematics Day is on ninth August 2016 - it looks similar an splendid effect as well as I promise to encounter yous there.

Have yous signed @MathsMrCox's petition to present your opposition to the proposed Year seven SATs resits yet? It's of import that nosotros create whatever nosotros tin dismiss to brand our views known, rather than stand upward dorsum as well as grumble close bad determination making. Please sign!

I've had a lovely one-half term celebrating my youngest daughter's instant birthday. We were really lucky to create goodness from a complimentary trip to Legoland, inward render for having a quick await at their maths schoolhouse trips. I was hugely impressed past times the workshop nosotros saw (they got my iv twelvemonth sometime programming robots!) as well as volition write a weblog post close it soon. Although a household unit of measurement solar daytime out at Legoland is rather pricey, the schoolhouse trips are really reasonably priced.

I'll learn out yous amongst this lovely puzzle from @YohakuPuzzle. Fill inward the cells amongst unlike factors to learn the products inward each row/column.