5 Maths Gems #52

Hello as well as welcome to my 52^nd gems post. This is where I percentage 5 maths education ideas that I've seen on Twitter.

1. GCSE Revision
The Easter holidays are here! Phew, fourth dimension for a rest. When nosotros provide to schoolhouse for the summertime term many of us volition start preparing our Year xi classes for their GCSE exams. I wrote a postal service 'Higher GCSE Revision' terminal twelvemonth which includes all my favourite resources exactly I'm e'er on the expect out for novel ideas. Thanks to Maria Howard (@MrsHsNumeracy) for creating a helpful booklet of 'quick grade GCSE questions' grouped yesteryear topic, amongst answers.

2. Starter Cards as well as Negative Numbers

I'm a big fan of MathsPad. Some of their resources are gratis as well as some require a subscription. It's worth following @MathsPadNicola and @MathsPadJames on Twitter.

Nicola late tweeted a link to a novel hit of starter tasks that could move used every bit starters, leave of absence slips or mini-assessments.

Nicola every bit good shared a lovely negative numbers magic foursquare activity.

In response to this, Colin Foster (@colinfoster77) shared the chapter 'Negative Numbers' from his mass Number as well as Algebra. I mean value this volition move actually useful to novel teachers when they instruct negative numbers for the offset time. I similar the multiplication foursquare action which helps students empathise why multiplying 2 negative numbers gives a positive number.

The total laid upwards of Colin's bright books tin move flora here.

3. H5N1 Level Revision

After the Easter holidays nosotros convey to a greater extent than or less 5 weeks at schoolhouse earlier examination flavor starts. I'll demand to complete education C2 as well as C4 as well as thus produce some examination preparation. If you're looking for H5N1 grade revision resources, in that place are a few at the bottom of my revision cards as well as my C2 revision relay.

Sandra from MathsBox (@mathsbox1) late tweeted a link to some novel A2 revision starters (example pictured below).

If you lot know of whatever other expert H5N1 grade revision resources delight allow me know.

4. Points
I similar 'Points Number Work' yesteryear Jeremy Denton (@Jeremy_Denton). Students are given twenty minutes to endeavor to boot the bucket every bit many points every bit possible. It's e'er worth getting students to practise these fundamental skills.

5. Primary Resources
Year vi teachers as well as parents volition move pleased to listen that Mark McCourt (@EmathsUK) has starting publishing practice papers for the novel Key Stage 2 Arithmetic Tests.

Whilst on the dependent champaign of master copy resources, I should refer some materials that were late shared yesteryear Beth Lilley (@MissBLilley).  I've never seen these booklets from New Zealand's Maths Centre earlier - there's loads of peachy master copy cloth hither thus I've added the link to my Primary Maths page.

There's every bit good some expert secondary resources here, such every bit the Geometric Reasoning booklet, as well as another bits as well as pieces that mightiness come upwards inwards handy (a Family Maths booklet and an Adult Numeracy booklet). Lots to explore!

Update
Edexcel sent out post yesteryear @Jeremy_Denton.

Booking is straightaway opened upwards for Edexcel's Warwick Conference 2016 which is on Sabbatum 2nd July. I'll move presenting on 'the wonderful basis of maths resources'. I'm thus excited virtually seeing Hannah Fry's keynote - she's brilliant! Do mass a house if you lot tin (it's £185 thus enquire your schoolhouse to pay!).

Last calendar week I hosted here.

Have a lovely Easter!

Don Steward's preferred lesson structure:
twenty minutes of teaching, forty minutes of
'practice amongst depth' as well as generalising

5 Maths Gems #68

Welcome to my 68^th update from the basis of Maths EduTwitter. This is where I percentage or in addition to hence of the latest ideas in addition to resources for didactics maths.

1. Fractions Challenges
Whilst searching online for an extension activity for my fractions lesson, I institute this Extension Activities Workbook. There's or in addition to hence groovy fractions stuff inward hither summation or in addition to hence prissy tasks for other topics. I especially similar 'Trail Blazers' on Page 28.

2. What's inward the Middle?
Mr Taylor (@taylorda01) has created an activity called 'What's inward the Middle'. These questions could generate groovy degree discussion.

3. Alternative Methods
I'm actually interested inward choice mathematical methods, inward fact I ran an entire SCITT preparation solar daytime on it this week. With my trainees I explored unlike methods for finding a highest mutual factor, factorising harder quadratics, solving quadratic inequalities, in addition to diverse other topics. Exploring novel methods e'er sparks debate. Two interesting methods were shared on Twitter this week.

This choice method for subtracting was shared yesteryear Chris Smith (@aap03102) inward his weekly newsletter. You tin subscribe to his lovely newsletter yesteryear emailing aap03102@gmail.com.

This choice method for dividing fractions was shared yesteryear Ed Southall (@solvemymaths):

This method sure as shooting makes to a greater extent than feel without complex explanations. ix "units" divided yesteryear 10 "units" pic.twitter.com/dH6HpK0Gbw

— solve my maths (@solvemymaths) 22 Jan 2017

Ed's novel majority 'Yes, merely why? Teaching for agreement inward mathematics' comes out inward March.

4. Number Properties Challenge
I similar this activity from Stephen Bodman (@stephenbodman). Give students 3 or 4 random digits in addition to they convey to generate numbers amongst specific properties.

5. Misconceptions 
Thanks to Nisha de Alwis (@nishadealwis) for sharing this 'Misconceptions in addition to Errors' document. This listing of misconceptions mightiness endure useful when you're planning to learn a novel topic. For representative inward the fractions department it includes a publish of misconceptions that I convey latterly identified inward my Year seven class.

I've added this link to my Misconceptions Page.

Update
Did yous grab my latest weblog posts?

• New GCSE: Functions
• World Cup of Maths
• Favourite Posts of 2016
• Most Viewed Posts of 2016

I've had a busy week. I travelled to St Helens on Mon to introduce on novel GCSE topics at North West 3 Maths Hub. On Midweek I delivered a amount solar daytime of preparation to my SCITT trainees. I showed them the video below which features 2 teachers amongst unlike (but as effective) styles didactics the same lesson on factorising quadratics:



One of the things I similar most this video is that it shows that it doesn't thing whether yous convey a reserved mode or you're to a greater extent than exuberant - skilful didactics doesn't depend on personality.

It's non long directly until #mathsconf9 in Bristol - it looks similar in that location are or in addition to hence groovy workshops at this one. I promise to run into yous there.

I'll larn out yous amongst this splendid 'Eight Disks' puzzle from Duane Habecker (@dhabecker). Enjoy!

5 Maths Gems #79

Welcome to my 79^th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers.

1. Percentages
Miss Konstantine (blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar activity, which is at i time linked inward my resource library.

2. TES Freebies

I've never bought a resources from TES earlier only final calendar week I establish i that is going to salve me a huge sum of fourth dimension together with printing budget... For my blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Papers Society I accept to impress a lot of GCSE papers, which is actually expensive given that GCSE papers are unremarkably around twenty - xxx pages long. Thankfully I establish that a teacher (tpayne89) has pose a lot of endeavour into cutting a alternative of GCSE papers downward to brusk A5 booklets - the resources is here. 

I know that some of you lot are hence annoyed that TES at i time sells resources that you'd never contemplate buying one, only the balance of you lot powerfulness produce goodness from the fact that TES are offering a £5 voucher for get-go timer buyers to purchase a resources during Nov (use the code NOVEMBERNEWBIE).

3. Prime on a Lime
Inspired past times 'Elf on a Shelf', Chris Smith (@aap03102) shared this movie on Twitter...

We had fun guessing the rhyming phrase for this movie together with others shared past times Chris... together with and hence other people joined inward together with made their own. Julia Smith (@tessmaths) collected them together inward a padlet - come across if you lot tin gauge them all!

4. Key Stage iii Support
Thanks to Lisa Pollard (@booleanmathshub) for sharing the NCETM's recent publication 'Teaching for Mastery: Questions, tasks together with activities to back upwardly assessment inward Key Stage 3'. It contains lots of useful inquiry prompts that schools could contain into their Key Stage iii Schemes of Work - hither are 2 examples:

5. Mental Arithmetic
This is something that maths teachers volition enjoy! Thanks to Paul Godding (@7puzzle) for sharing arithmetic.zetamac.com. This game is highly addictive! It's fun trying to shell your personal best.

Update
In instance you lot missed them, my recent posts were 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Success Stories: Core Maths' (thank you lot to everyone who commented on this!) together with 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar The Wonderful World of Maths Resources'.

If you're an H5N1 score teacher, produce accept a read of the post 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Strength inward Numbers'.

The MA is currently inward talks alongside the other maths bailiwick associations nearly amalgamation. I mean value that the creation of a unmarried maths bailiwick association would hold out a really of import stride frontward for our profession. I encourage you lot to add together your catch here, whether you're a fellow member of the MA or not. Thank you lot to everyone who has already done so.

If you're looking to alter schoolhouse this twelvemonth (or for adjacent September) together with you lot alive inward Surrey or South London together with hence delight produce driblet me an email - my lovely schoolhouse has vacancies. We accept opportunities for trainees, NQTs together with experienced teachers. We're happy to consider requests to move business office time.

I'm off to my get-go e'er MathsJam Annual Gathering adjacent weekend! Exciting stuff. I'm looking frontward to seeing lots of you lot there.

I'll exit you lot alongside this lovely puzzle, shared past times Chris Smith (@aap03102) in his most recent newsletter. If you've non signed up, email Chris to subscribe.

5 Maths Gems #93

Welcome to my 93^rd gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers. It's the summertime holidays! Many of yous volition live on a Twitter intermission correct now, therefore this post volition fill upward yous inward on some things yous mightiness receive got missed inward the lastly pair of weeks.

It was inward the summertime holidays - iv years agone this week- that I get-go started writing my gems posts. You tin run across the total collection here.

1. Triangles
Thanks to John Rowe (@MrJohnRowe) for sharing this right-angled trigonometry activity. Students receive got the discovery the length x.

Benjamin Leis‏ (here.

If yous similar this together with then yous mightiness also enjoy Gems 54. It takes a piece to solve! 

You mightiness also similar the Gems 35. I dear angle chases!

Speaking of triangles, thank yous to Mark Horley (@mhorley) for sharing @DrPMaths' triangle generator. This helpful tool creates possible triangles amongst integer sides, expanse together with height. If yous brand your ain resources together with then this volition live helpful to ensure yous don't include impossible triangles.

2. Sums together with Products
Thanks to Shaun Carter (conference listings for 2018/19. There are lots of slap-up events coming up. Next term I intend to larn to #mathsconf17 together with MathsJam. And I promise to denote my ain number soon...

I've been working on my H5N1 marking resources libraries - they involve a total rewrite because of the novel H5N1 marking specifications. It's a huge, fourth dimension consuming job!

If you're a fellow member of The Mathematical Association together with interested inward volunteering, delight brand it touch. I chair the Publicity together with Media Committee together with am looking for a pair of novel members of my committee. I'm also looking for people to assist homo the MA bookstand at conferences. Please permit me know if yous tin help. H5N1 small honorarium volition live paid to conference volunteers.

In other news:

• Corbettmaths (@Corbettmaths) has made his novel Corbettmaths Primary website live. It features loads of videos, enquiry papers together with 5-a-days.
• The MA's latest Equals Magazine has been published. This gratuitous periodical focuses on maths together with SEND.
• Read this slap-up article "How to Talk About the Fields Medal at Your Next Cocktail Party" past times Evelyn Lamb.
• You'll also savour this bright post from Alan Parr "... Tables Not Well Known" close teaching times tables inward the 1800s. 
• Congratulations to Nira Chamberlain, winner of the #bigmathoff. You tin read a concluding write-up of the contest here.

I'll travel out yous amongst this arithmetic maze from @MathforLove, shared by @MathsEdIdeas. Without passing through the same jail mobile telephone twice, what’s the largest total yous tin make? This mightiness live a squeamish activeness for Year vii to receive got a larn at inward September.

5 Maths Gems #52

Hello as well as welcome to my 52^nd gems post. This is where I percentage 5 maths education ideas that I've seen on Twitter.

1. GCSE Revision
The Easter holidays are here! Phew, fourth dimension for a rest. When nosotros provide to schoolhouse for the summertime term many of us volition start preparing our Year xi classes for their GCSE exams. I wrote a postal service 'Higher GCSE Revision' terminal twelvemonth which includes all my favourite resources exactly I'm e'er on the expect out for novel ideas. Thanks to Maria Howard (@MrsHsNumeracy) for creating a helpful booklet of 'quick grade GCSE questions' grouped yesteryear topic, amongst answers.

2. Starter Cards as well as Negative Numbers

I'm a big fan of MathsPad. Some of their resources are gratis as well as some require a subscription. It's worth following @MathsPadNicola and @MathsPadJames on Twitter.

Nicola late tweeted a link to a novel hit of starter tasks that could move used every bit starters, leave of absence slips or mini-assessments.

Nicola every bit good shared a lovely negative numbers magic foursquare activity.

In response to this, Colin Foster (@colinfoster77) shared the chapter 'Negative Numbers' from his mass Number as well as Algebra. I mean value this volition move actually useful to novel teachers when they instruct negative numbers for the offset time. I similar the multiplication foursquare action which helps students empathise why multiplying 2 negative numbers gives a positive number.

The total laid upwards of Colin's bright books tin move flora here.

3. H5N1 Level Revision

After the Easter holidays nosotros convey to a greater extent than or less 5 weeks at schoolhouse earlier examination flavor starts. I'll demand to complete education C2 as well as C4 as well as thus produce some examination preparation. If you're looking for H5N1 grade revision resources, in that place are a few at the bottom of my revision cards as well as my C2 revision relay.

Sandra from MathsBox (@mathsbox1) late tweeted a link to some novel A2 revision starters (example pictured below).

If you lot know of whatever other expert H5N1 grade revision resources delight allow me know.

4. Points
I similar 'Points Number Work' yesteryear Jeremy Denton (@Jeremy_Denton). Students are given twenty minutes to endeavor to boot the bucket every bit many points every bit possible. It's e'er worth getting students to practise these fundamental skills.

5. Primary Resources
Year vi teachers as well as parents volition move pleased to listen that Mark McCourt (@EmathsUK) has starting publishing practice papers for the novel Key Stage 2 Arithmetic Tests.

Whilst on the dependent champaign of master copy resources, I should refer some materials that were late shared yesteryear Beth Lilley (@MissBLilley).  I've never seen these booklets from New Zealand's Maths Centre earlier - there's loads of peachy master copy cloth hither thus I've added the link to my Primary Maths page.

There's every bit good some expert secondary resources here, such every bit the Geometric Reasoning booklet, as well as another bits as well as pieces that mightiness come upwards inwards handy (a Family Maths booklet and an Adult Numeracy booklet). Lots to explore!

Update
Edexcel sent out post yesteryear @Jeremy_Denton.

Booking is straightaway opened upwards for Edexcel's Warwick Conference 2016 which is on Sabbatum 2nd July. I'll move presenting on 'the wonderful basis of maths resources'. I'm thus excited virtually seeing Hannah Fry's keynote - she's brilliant! Do mass a house if you lot tin (it's £185 thus enquire your schoolhouse to pay!).

Last calendar week I hosted here.

Have a lovely Easter!

Don Steward's preferred lesson structure:
twenty minutes of teaching, forty minutes of
'practice amongst depth' as well as generalising

5 Maths Gems #68

Welcome to my 68^th update from the basis of Maths EduTwitter. This is where I percentage or in addition to hence of the latest ideas in addition to resources for didactics maths.

1. Fractions Challenges
Whilst searching online for an extension activity for my fractions lesson, I institute this Extension Activities Workbook. There's or in addition to hence groovy fractions stuff inward hither summation or in addition to hence prissy tasks for other topics. I especially similar 'Trail Blazers' on Page 28.

2. What's inward the Middle?
Mr Taylor (@taylorda01) has created an activity called 'What's inward the Middle'. These questions could generate groovy degree discussion.

3. Alternative Methods
I'm actually interested inward choice mathematical methods, inward fact I ran an entire SCITT preparation solar daytime on it this week. With my trainees I explored unlike methods for finding a highest mutual factor, factorising harder quadratics, solving quadratic inequalities, in addition to diverse other topics. Exploring novel methods e'er sparks debate. Two interesting methods were shared on Twitter this week.

This choice method for subtracting was shared yesteryear Chris Smith (@aap03102) inward his weekly newsletter. You tin subscribe to his lovely newsletter yesteryear emailing aap03102@gmail.com.

This choice method for dividing fractions was shared yesteryear Ed Southall (@solvemymaths):

This method sure as shooting makes to a greater extent than feel without complex explanations. ix "units" divided yesteryear 10 "units" pic.twitter.com/dH6HpK0Gbw

— solve my maths (@solvemymaths) 22 Jan 2017

Ed's novel majority 'Yes, merely why? Teaching for agreement inward mathematics' comes out inward March.

4. Number Properties Challenge
I similar this activity from Stephen Bodman (@stephenbodman). Give students 3 or 4 random digits in addition to they convey to generate numbers amongst specific properties.

5. Misconceptions 
Thanks to Nisha de Alwis (@nishadealwis) for sharing this 'Misconceptions in addition to Errors' document. This listing of misconceptions mightiness endure useful when you're planning to learn a novel topic. For representative inward the fractions department it includes a publish of misconceptions that I convey latterly identified inward my Year seven class.

I've added this link to my Misconceptions Page.

Update
Did yous grab my latest weblog posts?

• New GCSE: Functions
• World Cup of Maths
• Favourite Posts of 2016
• Most Viewed Posts of 2016

I've had a busy week. I travelled to St Helens on Mon to introduce on novel GCSE topics at North West 3 Maths Hub. On Midweek I delivered a amount solar daytime of preparation to my SCITT trainees. I showed them the video below which features 2 teachers amongst unlike (but as effective) styles didactics the same lesson on factorising quadratics:



One of the things I similar most this video is that it shows that it doesn't thing whether yous convey a reserved mode or you're to a greater extent than exuberant - skilful didactics doesn't depend on personality.

It's non long directly until #mathsconf9 in Bristol - it looks similar in that location are or in addition to hence groovy workshops at this one. I promise to run into yous there.

I'll larn out yous amongst this splendid 'Eight Disks' puzzle from Duane Habecker (@dhabecker). Enjoy!

5 Maths Gems #79

Welcome to my 79^th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers.

1. Percentages
Miss Konstantine (blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar activity, which is at i time linked inward my resource library.

2. TES Freebies

I've never bought a resources from TES earlier only final calendar week I establish i that is going to salve me a huge sum of fourth dimension together with printing budget... For my blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Papers Society I accept to impress a lot of GCSE papers, which is actually expensive given that GCSE papers are unremarkably around twenty - xxx pages long. Thankfully I establish that a teacher (tpayne89) has pose a lot of endeavour into cutting a alternative of GCSE papers downward to brusk A5 booklets - the resources is here. 

I know that some of you lot are hence annoyed that TES at i time sells resources that you'd never contemplate buying one, only the balance of you lot powerfulness produce goodness from the fact that TES are offering a £5 voucher for get-go timer buyers to purchase a resources during Nov (use the code NOVEMBERNEWBIE).

3. Prime on a Lime
Inspired past times 'Elf on a Shelf', Chris Smith (@aap03102) shared this movie on Twitter...

We had fun guessing the rhyming phrase for this movie together with others shared past times Chris... together with and hence other people joined inward together with made their own. Julia Smith (@tessmaths) collected them together inward a padlet - come across if you lot tin gauge them all!

4. Key Stage iii Support
Thanks to Lisa Pollard (@booleanmathshub) for sharing the NCETM's recent publication 'Teaching for Mastery: Questions, tasks together with activities to back upwardly assessment inward Key Stage 3'. It contains lots of useful inquiry prompts that schools could contain into their Key Stage iii Schemes of Work - hither are 2 examples:

5. Mental Arithmetic
This is something that maths teachers volition enjoy! Thanks to Paul Godding (@7puzzle) for sharing arithmetic.zetamac.com. This game is highly addictive! It's fun trying to shell your personal best.

Update
In instance you lot missed them, my recent posts were 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Success Stories: Core Maths' (thank you lot to everyone who commented on this!) together with 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar The Wonderful World of Maths Resources'.

If you're an H5N1 score teacher, produce accept a read of the post 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Strength inward Numbers'.

The MA is currently inward talks alongside the other maths bailiwick associations nearly amalgamation. I mean value that the creation of a unmarried maths bailiwick association would hold out a really of import stride frontward for our profession. I encourage you lot to add together your catch here, whether you're a fellow member of the MA or not. Thank you lot to everyone who has already done so.

If you're looking to alter schoolhouse this twelvemonth (or for adjacent September) together with you lot alive inward Surrey or South London together with hence delight produce driblet me an email - my lovely schoolhouse has vacancies. We accept opportunities for trainees, NQTs together with experienced teachers. We're happy to consider requests to move business office time.

I'm off to my get-go e'er MathsJam Annual Gathering adjacent weekend! Exciting stuff. I'm looking frontward to seeing lots of you lot there.

I'll exit you lot alongside this lovely puzzle, shared past times Chris Smith (@aap03102) in his most recent newsletter. If you've non signed up, email Chris to subscribe.