5 Maths Gems #24

Hello as well as welcome to my 24th gems post - this is where I part five teaching ideas I've seen on Twitter. I'm going to live on brusk as well as sugariness today... I'm meant to live on marking!

1. Angles inwards Parallel Lines
I'm e'er on the expect out for practiced questions that I tin hand notice role inwards course of didactics as well as thus I was pleased when Cliff Pickover (@pickover) tweeted the occupation below. This volition do nicely for my Year 7s when they come upward to revise angles. I don't shout out upward they've seen the 'hatch mark' used for equal angles earlier (only equal sides) as well as thus it's a practiced exercise inwards interpreting musical note too. Answers are on page half dozen of this document. By the way, if you're non already next Cliff, I highly recommend his tweets.

2. Algebra Countdown
I was browsing @stephenbodman's lovely resources on his website secondarymaths.wikispaces.com when I spotted Algebra Countdown. This is an activity based on the TV programme Countdown, but instead of numbers students are given algebraic terms. Set upward the Countdown Clock as well as run the activity inwards Excel on your Interactive Whiteboard. It's a actually overnice activity for practising simplifying algebraic expressions.

3. Isometric Fractions
I was looking at the cool pads of sticky-backed graph newspaper on www.instagraphs.com (only available inwards USA as well as Canada) as well as spotted an interesting approach to teaching fraction add-on as well as equivalency using isometric grids (see film below). The grid only helps students to depict as well as combine equal sized parts, but anything that helps students sympathise the concept of a mutual denominator is worth considering.

4. Circle Theorems Badges
Cameron Fehr (@MrFehr_SVC) shared this film of the circle theorem badges he uses to vantage his students.

Cameron made these himself using a badge maker. His students tin hand notice earn them past times (for example) correctly reciting the quadratic formula. Cameron real helpfully shared his files here (where there's lots to a greater extent than award-related things to explore).

5. Artistic Mathematics
@MrMathsTeacher shared fantastic pictures of Piet Mondrian-inspired graphs of horizontal as well as vertical lines. I dearest this idea.

6. Imperial Measures

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bonus precious rock this week, peculiarly for my American readers. We don't role cups as well as quarts inwards the U.K. but if nosotros did, I'd uncovering a role for this fantastic diagram. It helps us visualise the relative sizes of each unit of measurement as well as respond questions similar 'how many teaspoons are inwards a gallon?'.

Reading!
I desire to recommend 3 posts this week... Craig Barton (@tesMaths) updated his 'Links to the Best Maths Websites inwards the World' - it's good worth a read, every bit is his extensive listing of maths resources - Essential Freebies.

Lucy Crehan (@lucy_crehan) shared this lovely post from the 'I am Malala' website. It features pictures of classrooms all over the footing - I actually enjoyed reading it.

That's it for this week. Thanks for reading. I'm utterly exhausted! My infant is 8 months quondam at ane time - volition she ever sleep? Roll on half-term! :)

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.

5 Maths Gems #24

Hello as well as welcome to my 24th gems post - this is where I part five teaching ideas I've seen on Twitter. I'm going to live on brusk as well as sugariness today... I'm meant to live on marking!

1. Angles inwards Parallel Lines
I'm e'er on the expect out for practiced questions that I tin hand notice role inwards course of didactics as well as thus I was pleased when Cliff Pickover (@pickover) tweeted the occupation below. This volition do nicely for my Year 7s when they come upward to revise angles. I don't shout out upward they've seen the 'hatch mark' used for equal angles earlier (only equal sides) as well as thus it's a practiced exercise inwards interpreting musical note too. Answers are on page half dozen of this document. By the way, if you're non already next Cliff, I highly recommend his tweets.

2. Algebra Countdown
I was browsing @stephenbodman's lovely resources on his website secondarymaths.wikispaces.com when I spotted Algebra Countdown. This is an activity based on the TV programme Countdown, but instead of numbers students are given algebraic terms. Set upward the Countdown Clock as well as run the activity inwards Excel on your Interactive Whiteboard. It's a actually overnice activity for practising simplifying algebraic expressions.

3. Isometric Fractions
I was looking at the cool pads of sticky-backed graph newspaper on www.instagraphs.com (only available inwards USA as well as Canada) as well as spotted an interesting approach to teaching fraction add-on as well as equivalency using isometric grids (see film below). The grid only helps students to depict as well as combine equal sized parts, but anything that helps students sympathise the concept of a mutual denominator is worth considering.

4. Circle Theorems Badges
Cameron Fehr (@MrFehr_SVC) shared this film of the circle theorem badges he uses to vantage his students.

Cameron made these himself using a badge maker. His students tin hand notice earn them past times (for example) correctly reciting the quadratic formula. Cameron real helpfully shared his files here (where there's lots to a greater extent than award-related things to explore).

5. Artistic Mathematics
@MrMathsTeacher shared fantastic pictures of Piet Mondrian-inspired graphs of horizontal as well as vertical lines. I dearest this idea.

6. Imperial Measures

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bonus precious rock this week, peculiarly for my American readers. We don't role cups as well as quarts inwards the U.K. but if nosotros did, I'd uncovering a role for this fantastic diagram. It helps us visualise the relative sizes of each unit of measurement as well as respond questions similar 'how many teaspoons are inwards a gallon?'.

Reading!
I desire to recommend 3 posts this week... Craig Barton (@tesMaths) updated his 'Links to the Best Maths Websites inwards the World' - it's good worth a read, every bit is his extensive listing of maths resources - Essential Freebies.

Lucy Crehan (@lucy_crehan) shared this lovely post from the 'I am Malala' website. It features pictures of classrooms all over the footing - I actually enjoyed reading it.

That's it for this week. Thanks for reading. I'm utterly exhausted! My infant is 8 months quondam at ane time - volition she ever sleep? Roll on half-term! :)

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.