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Thursday, October 24, 2019

5 Maths Gems #3

Well it's been an emotional twain of weeks. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 plane in addition to GCSE results kept many of us upwards at black in addition to nosotros experienced the green feelings of joy, pride, relief in addition to sometimes disappointment. But nevertheless nosotros perish along to gear upwards for the novel schoolhouse twelvemonth in addition to intend nearly what we'll produce differently.

The hardest matter nearly writing these weekly posts is deciding which ideas to feature. I take away keep an increasingly long listing of unused fabric because fifty-fifty when Twitter's teachers are preoccupied alongside results, the incredible inventiveness in addition to spirit of collaboration remains. In this postal service I'll showcase only v of the real many ideas shared on Twitter this week.

1. Homework
Kathryn Forster (@DIRT_expert) shared a novel laid of homeworks that she has designed. Each homework consists of v sections: literacy, research, memory, skills in addition to stretch. These homeworks would live on followed upwards past times starter activities such equally spelling or retentiveness tests in addition to discussions nearly enquiry findings. Kathryn has real helpfully shared iv of her homeworks for us to borrow:
These are actually goodness ideas.

If you're thinking nearly trying out around unlike approaches to homework I recommend reading Cav's (Homework in addition to Retention and Take Away Homework.

 2. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Scavenger Hunt
Speaking of homework, the Mailbox (@TheMailbox) shared a 'scavenger hunt' which could live on adapted equally starting fourth dimension homework for Year seven or 8.  Alternatively yous could pick out a pile of newspapers in addition to magazines into i of your starting fourth dimension Year seven lessons so your pupils tin create a poster inward shape using this idea.

3. Oh for a room to telephone telephone my own...
There's nevertheless a lot of classroom display ideas going circular Twitter. One of my most retweeted retweets this calendar week was this 'Change your words' display:
It's of import to communicate these messages in addition to a display similar this is a goodness agency of doing so. The see originally came from Sarah Hagan's (@mathequalslove) post '2014-2015 Classroom Pics - My Most Colorful Room Yet!'. Sarah may good live on i of the most enthusiastic maths teachers inward the world! Her weblog is real popular, in addition to rightly so. Check out this lectern inward her room - yes, a lectern! Is this measure inward American classrooms? I must acquire one!

I saw lots of prissy display ideas inward Sarah's Homework in addition to Retention and Take Away Homework.

 2. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Scavenger Hunt
Speaking of homework, the Mailbox (@TheMailbox) shared a 'scavenger hunt' which could live on adapted equally starting fourth dimension homework for Year seven or 8.  Alternatively yous could pick out a pile of newspapers in addition to magazines into i of your starting fourth dimension Year seven lessons so your pupils tin create a poster inward shape using this idea.

3. Oh for a room to telephone telephone my own...
There's nevertheless a lot of classroom display ideas going circular Twitter. One of my most retweeted retweets this calendar week was this 'Change your words' display:
It's of import to communicate these messages in addition to a display similar this is a goodness agency of doing so. The see originally came from Sarah Hagan's (@mathequalslove) post 'post - similar the reckoner posters below - in addition to it made me long for my ain classroom. Whilst inward the baby-making phase of my life I'm having a brief piece equally a part-timer. It's a mixed blessing. One disadvantage is that I don't take away keep my ain classroom so I learn inward rooms all over the school. Between lessons I take away keep to squash downwards crowded corridors alongside my huge pocketbook of books in addition to equipment (this was a nightmare when I was heavily pregnant!). There are lots of other disadvantages to beingness part-time such equally missing of import information from unminuted meetings in addition to a total lack of career progression opportunities. Of class this is all outweighed past times the massive wages of getting to pass fourth dimension alongside my children, so I'm non complaining... (much).

Another display see I've seen this calendar week is this classroom rules poster, shared by @TeachThought inward this post. I intend pupils would appreciate these real clear in addition to reasonable messages.

On the land of written report of conduct management, I enjoyed David Didau's (@learningspy) post on schoolhouse routines.

If yous desire to brand your ain classroom posters so recitethis.com is dandy for creating pretty quotes in addition to notices - cheers to @mathminds for sharing the link.

And if you're looking to render your classroom, Stephen Harris (@Stephen_H) shared a twain of awesome write-on tabular array designs: these ones are dandy for collaboration and tangram tables are perfect for a maths classroom.

And in conclusion on display ideas, Mr Allan (@mrallanmaths) shared his RAG123 display, Chris Smith (@aap03102) shared a motion-picture present of his 'Mathematician of the month' board, in addition to Mr Taylor (@taylorda01) adapted Spiked Math's Mathagasm comic so it's suitable for display. I'm going to steal all 3 ideas - if I always acquire my ain classroom.

4. Teaching ideas from #mathschat
Weekly maths chats accept identify on Twitter every Midweek at 8pm, organised by @BetterMaths. This calendar week nosotros discussed our favourite topics, tasks, resources in addition to investigations, so the goodness ideas were coming thick in addition to fast! I've got a long listing to form through.

There were lots of ideas nearly getting out of the classroom. Jon Treby (@JonTrebyAAN) suggested instruction loci exterior using buildings in addition to string. He too puts record on the flooring of the schoolhouse hall when he teaches angles inward parallel lines. Dawn (@mrsdenyer) has a schoolhouse treasure hunt for 3D trigonometry in addition to Martin Noon (@letsgetmathing) suggests using a clinometer to mensurate the summit of schoolhouse buildings in addition to trees.

There was too a lot of verbalize nearly popcorn! Dawn (@mrsdenyer) gets her students to blueprint a popcorn cone - an activity that involves sectors in addition to arcs, Pythagoras in addition to volume. If students tin function out the volume of their cone, they tin create total it alongside popcorn! Miss Ren (@ReynoldsBSGD) shared Dan Meyer's popcorn picker chore - 'all yous demand is A4 paper. I only stand upwards dorsum in addition to spotter the kids acquire stuck in!'.

5. Mistakes in addition to feedback
I've written a lot nearly learning from mistakes lately so this tweet was real relevant:

And here's a dandy see for marker from @ChrisHildrew.

So at that spot yous become - a pocket-sized option of ideas from a calendar week on Twitter. I promise that's helpful. If yous missed the previous ii Maths Gems posts, yous tin honor them here. I'll locomote out yous alongside a prissy inquiry for your students from Big Ideas Math.



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5 Maths Gems #4

Well the summertime holidays are good too genuinely over. Many teachers, specially those who are relatively novel to teaching, volition pass this weekend making lists, planning lessons too experiencing that unsettling feeling of nervous excitement. If yous stimulate got fourth dimension to read this week's laid of maths gems, I promise they furnish a piffling lite relief.

1. Maths lessons for maths teachers
I devote a lot of fourth dimension to thinking well-nigh how to railroad train my teaching but pass far less fourth dimension edifice on my ain mathematical skills too knowledge. Whatever our background too all the same 'good' nosotros are at maths, there's e'er to a greater extent than to learn. For example, I’ve never studied whatever mechanics inwards my life (I did Pure Maths H5N1 plane too a statistics degree) but SUVAT is on the novel GCSE syllabus too hence I'd improve discovery out what it is.

I experience that my cognition of secondary schoolhouse core mathematics is pretty audio but this calendar week Ed Southall (@edsouthall) inadvertently pointed me inwards the management of James Tanton's website (@jamestanton) and inside minutes I was learning novel things! Here's a few examples.

If asked to sketch the graph of y = x2 + 4x + 5, I'd realise that it can't live factorised too hence I'd banking concern tally the discriminant to confirm that this component subdivision has no existent roots. My side past times side footstep would live to consummate the foursquare to create upwards one's heed the vertex. I don't similar completing the square. I've never thought to discovery the vertex using this post written past times a pupil I works life out that inwards Republic of Lithuania 1st September is a 'celebration of cognition day'. Also, inwards the Lithuanian equivalent of our Year 13, they stimulate got a '100 twenty-four hours celebration' inwards which they stimulate got a prom to commemorate that they stimulate got exclusively 100 days left of school. The balance of the post is to a greater extent than oft than non well-nigh wearing clothing shopping for Lithuanian teenagers, too hence non quite too hence interesting... I'd similar to discovery out to a greater extent than well-nigh traditions inwards instruction around the world.

3. Plenaries, extensions, puzzles too loyalty cards
misstait.wordpress.com
This brilliant 'Finished? Try 1 of these...' display got me thinking well-nigh the materials I create for my early on finishers. The creator of this display, Kerry Tait (@misstait_85), wrote a blog post describing the review tasks contained within, which are intended to encourage students to reverberate on their learning. This is a actually prissy idea. Kerry is a scientific discipline instructor but this would piece of work as good inwards maths.

At the goal of my lessons I tend to become for extension activities rather than reflection tasks. In every lesson I give extension piece of work to the appropriate pupils at the appropriate time. My students know that I'm actually impressed if they stimulate got a become at the extension fabric but at the same fourth dimension I emphasise that maths isn't a race. There's value inwards occasionally planning a relatively brusk principal exercise too an 'extension' that is accessible to all, non only the brightest or the quickest. Most people savour beingness stretched. I desire all of my students to come upwards out of maths lessons feeling similar champions.

My extension piece of work is usually a challenging query relating to the lesson topic but sometimes I run puzzles instead. For instance at the goal of a Key Stage iii lesson on the monastic enjoin of operations I give students the classic four fours puzzle. For fifty-fifty an greater challenge there's this sixes puzzle shared by Chris Smith (@aap03102) (I recall my 6th formers would savour this one), or mayhap fifty-fifty something on Friedman numbers.
@edfromo
Here's a few to a greater extent than puzzles too extensions I've come upwards across this week. My schoolhouse has a lunchtime puzzle monastic enjoin for Year 7s too hence these volition come upwards inwards handy at that spot too, too I may gear upwards a weekly puzzle board as suggested past times Mr Duffy (@MrDuffyMaths).

For the 'Finished? Try 1 of these...' display, the creator says that she powerfulness pattern a checklist too prize organization to encourage students to run the total arrive at of reflective tools. This proffer reminded me of a duo of other ideas I saw on Twitter this week. In @CorbettMaths' post well-nigh how to run his 5-a-day questions, he suggests that students lay their completed questions inwards a ballot box too a fortnightly prize describe takes place. He also shared @MissKMcD's loyalty bill of fare ideas which she's explained inwards this weblog post 'Learning amongst Loyalty Cards'.
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4. Everyday lessons
My weblog is well-nigh sharing creative ideas too engaging resources. But my lessons aren't all-singing all-dancing. If yous were to notice most of my lessons you'd run across a pretty measure format of: starter, explanation, discussion, practice, extension. I create create opportunities for students to create investigations too exciting activities but non inwards every unmarried lesson. As yous tin tell past times the championship of my blog, it's actually of import to me that I pick engaging resources. Sometimes that only agency a good designed worksheet. Harry Webb's (@websofsubstance) post well-nigh maths lessons too priorities is good worth a read, specially for NQTs who volition shortly live drowning inwards lesson plans. In my NQT twelvemonth each lesson took me a duo of hours to plan. Four years on, my lessons stimulate got around thirty - 45 minutes to plan, which is soundless totally unsustainable too inefficient but I acquire a chip quicker every year. Being able to acquire proficient resources from my weblog should increase my planning speed as I won't stimulate got to create too hence much hunting for resources.

Harry's post also gave me a novel idea. H5N1 box on the board for students to write downwards the homework questions they works life difficult - such a uncomplicated thought but much improve than how I create it at the moment, which usually involves lots of students talking at me at once!

5. Bits too pieces
Here's a pocket-size choice of the other ideas I saw on Twitter this week:
  • I honey this 'things to create when you're stuck' poster from The Maths Magpie (@TheMathsMagpie).
thegriddle.net
I works life out this calendar week that my term 'maths gems' is totally unoriginal - here's a prissy 'assortment of mathematical marvels' which are also called maths gems. Speaking of nicely designed websites, create stimulate got a await at Mathigon, shared this calendar week past times Chris Watts (@watchri01) - stunning, isn't it?

So that's it for this week. My topic resources posts volition render shortly too I'll also piece of work on a this post written past times a pupil I works life out that inwards Republic of Lithuania 1st September is a 'celebration of cognition day'. Also, inwards the Lithuanian equivalent of our Year 13, they stimulate got a '100 twenty-four hours celebration' inwards which they stimulate got a prom to commemorate that they stimulate got exclusively 100 days left of school. The balance of the post is to a greater extent than oft than non well-nigh wearing clothing shopping for Lithuanian teenagers, too hence non quite too hence interesting... I'd similar to discovery out to a greater extent than well-nigh traditions inwards instruction around the world.

3. Plenaries, extensions, puzzles too loyalty cards
misstait.wordpress.com
This brilliant 'Finished? Try 1 of these...' display got me thinking well-nigh the materials I create for my early on finishers. The creator of this display, Kerry Tait (@misstait_85), wrote a blog post describing the review tasks contained within, which are intended to encourage students to reverberate on their learning. This is a actually prissy idea. Kerry is a scientific discipline instructor but this would piece of work as good inwards maths.

At the goal of my lessons I tend to become for extension activities rather than reflection tasks. In every lesson I give extension piece of work to the appropriate pupils at the appropriate time. My students know that I'm actually impressed if they stimulate got a become at the extension fabric but at the same fourth dimension I emphasise that maths isn't a race. There's value inwards occasionally planning a relatively brusk principal exercise too an 'extension' that is accessible to all, non only the brightest or the quickest. Most people savour beingness stretched. I desire all of my students to come upwards out of maths lessons feeling similar champions.

My extension piece of work is usually a challenging query relating to the lesson topic but sometimes I run puzzles instead. For instance at the goal of a Key Stage iii lesson on the monastic enjoin of operations I give students the classic four fours puzzle. For fifty-fifty an greater challenge there's this sixes puzzle shared by Chris Smith (@aap03102) (I recall my 6th formers would savour this one), or mayhap fifty-fifty something on Friedman numbers.
@edfromo
Here's a few to a greater extent than puzzles too extensions I've come upwards across this week. My schoolhouse has a lunchtime puzzle monastic enjoin for Year 7s too hence these volition come upwards inwards handy at that spot too, too I may gear upwards a weekly puzzle board as suggested past times Mr Duffy (@MrDuffyMaths).

For the 'Finished? Try 1 of these...' display, the creator says that she powerfulness pattern a checklist too prize organization to encourage students to run the total arrive at of reflective tools. This proffer reminded me of a duo of other ideas I saw on Twitter this week. In @CorbettMaths' post well-nigh how to run his 5-a-day questions, he suggests that students lay their completed questions inwards a ballot box too a fortnightly prize describe takes place. He also shared @MissKMcD's loyalty bill of fare ideas which she's explained inwards this weblog post 'Learning amongst Loyalty Cards'.
misskmcd.wordpress.com
4. Everyday lessons
My weblog is well-nigh sharing creative ideas too engaging resources. But my lessons aren't all-singing all-dancing. If yous were to notice most of my lessons you'd run across a pretty measure format of: starter, explanation, discussion, practice, extension. I create create opportunities for students to create investigations too exciting activities but non inwards every unmarried lesson. As yous tin tell past times the championship of my blog, it's actually of import to me that I pick engaging resources. Sometimes that only agency a good designed worksheet. Harry Webb's (@websofsubstance) post well-nigh maths lessons too priorities is good worth a read, specially for NQTs who volition shortly live drowning inwards lesson plans. In my NQT twelvemonth each lesson took me a duo of hours to plan. Four years on, my lessons stimulate got around thirty - 45 minutes to plan, which is soundless totally unsustainable too inefficient but I acquire a chip quicker every year. Being able to acquire proficient resources from my weblog should increase my planning speed as I won't stimulate got to create too hence much hunting for resources.

Harry's post also gave me a novel idea. H5N1 box on the board for students to write downwards the homework questions they works life difficult - such a uncomplicated thought but much improve than how I create it at the moment, which usually involves lots of students talking at me at once!

5. Bits too pieces
Here's a pocket-size choice of the other ideas I saw on Twitter this week:
  • I honey this 'things to create when you're stuck' poster from The Maths Magpie (@TheMathsMagpie).
  • I discovered a website for maths animations - mathimation.co.uk. New stuff is beingness added all the fourth dimension too hence follow @mathimation for updates.
  • Anna Hester (@TypeAMathLand) shared an infographic syllabus - I borrowed her thought too made a 'brief guide to AS plane maths' infographic for my Year 12s. It was fun too straight off I'm looking for other things to infograph!
  • I actually enjoyed JemmaPDuck's (@JemmaPDuck) blog post well-nigh her commencement twenty-four hours back, lots of teaching ideas here.
  • There's far likewise much shape filling inwards our lives, but here's some forms I read well-nigh via Twitter this calendar week that may live useful for conduct management. These powerfulness non appeal to everyone, but are worth a look.
  • Mr Taylor (@taylorda01) has been making some amazing video problems - this one is specially terrifying too hence students volition honey it.
  • Mr Collins (@mrprcollins) created these incredible last gems post. Using her template, I created a Pythagoras homework too recall to brand some more. I'd honey to part a big arrive at of Pret homeworks too hence delight e-mail me resourceaholic@gmail.com if yous brand 1 that you're happy to share.
    Pythagoras Pret Homework

    Those of yous going dorsum to schoolhouse side past times side week, proficient luck! I'd actually appreciate it if you'd hollo resourceaholic.com to your colleagues.  I'll acquire out yous amongst a prissy maths occupation for your Key Stage iii students - this 1 was shared past times F chiliad Jones (@FMJonesMaths).



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5 Maths Gems #14

Welcome to my 14th weekly gems post - this is where I characteristic 5 of the best teaching ideas I've seen on Twitter each week.

You may or may non know that I've been writing these posts spell I've been at habitation on motherhood leave. My babe keeps me busy during the day, but my evenings are blissfully gratis from mark together with lesson planning thence I create got a rare chance to reverberate on my teaching together with assemble novel ideas. It's a shame that all teachers can't accept a mini-sabbatical every 5 years to produce the same. When I become dorsum to travel inwards Jan I'll create got 100 maths teaching gems inwards my toolkit - it volition last difficult to know where to start! 

 1. Two Truths together with a Lie
Two Truths together with a Lie is traditionally an icebreaker game - person tells y'all 3 facts almost themselves together with y'all jurist which ane is the lie. For event my blood brother powerfulness tell y'all that he was in ane lawsuit bitten yesteryear a donkey, he was in ane lawsuit bitten yesteryear a serpent together with he was in ane lawsuit bitten yesteryear a monkey. Bizarrely, exclusively ane of those statements is a lie. So let's accept this game together with plow it into an action that prompts mathematical discussion.

This thought came from a tweet yesteryear @TCM_at_NCTM:

Polygons (source: mathsisfun.com)
This tweet made me realise that I'm guilty of lazily telling my students that polygon is 'just about other word for shape' when inwards fact I should last to a greater extent than specific - a polygon is a 2D figure amongst at to the lowest degree 3 conduct sides together with angles (the word derives from the Greek 'many-angled'), thence a circle is non a polygon.

The ii truths almost quadrilaterals ('a foursquare is a rectangle' together with 'a rectangle is a parallelogram') volition also prompt interesting discussions almost definitions. The quadrilateral identify unit of measurement tree powerfulness attention clarify things. The Euler diagram below is also helpful. 
Quadrilaterals (source: Wikipedia)
Here's a duet to a greater extent than examples of mathematical 'Two Truths together with a Lie' activities:
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 related idea, Maths Lies (where the instructor tells ane deliberate prevarication per lesson - encounter my first gems post) is nonetheless ane of my favourite teaching ideas ever.
xkcd.com
2. Wikipedia and visualisation
From 1 to 1,000,000' from Gems 7 almost Estimation 180). Show your students the dotty pictures thence they larn a skillful feel of the magnitude of numbers. 
The paradigm higher upward reminds me of the 'If the World Were a Village of 100 People' visuals I talked almost inwards Gems 1 - this is a nice agency of conceptualising information that powerfulness attention students sympathise percentages.

3. Creative Mathematicians
Thanks to @gareth_metcalfe for sharing this bright video 'What is a mathematical proof?'. The video explains why mathematicians pass most of their fourth dimension trying things that don't work. Students are frequently reluctant to test a dissimilar approach if their get-go test at answering a enquiry is a dead end. Show this video at schoolhouse to encourage your students to last creative inwards their mathematical thinking. 



4. Communicating Reasoning
Continuing the theme of encouraging students to test diverse approaches to solving problems, bright NQT blogger gems post (unlucky 13) was my most pop post ever, amongst almost 2,000 views inwards a week. I also wrote a post on circle theorems terminal calendar week that I was peculiarly proud of. I dearest my gems posts together with my resources library, but it's my topic specials that I intend people volition detect the most helpful. I similar to intend that novel or late qualified teachers volition actually produce goodness from these posts when planning to learn a theme for the get-go time. 

If y'all similar my weblog together with then delight vote for it inwards the Great Britain Blog Awards (click hither to vote). There are over fifty blogs inwards the freelance teaching category together with exclusively 10 volition become through to the side yesteryear side stage. My weblog is tiny compared to the super-successful, well-established blogs I'm upward against. I've exclusively been writing it since Apr but I've done a lot inwards that fourth dimension - I pose my ticker together with soul into it, thence if y'all detect it useful together with then your vote would last really much appreciated.

 Finally, produce y'all receive Chris Smith's (@aap03102)  weekly newsletter?  If y'all don't already subscribe together with then email him forthwith to larn on the mailing list. This calendar week he featured Pret homeworks which y'all should accept a await at if y'all haven't seen them before. Chris also featured the first-class puzzle below, which I'm looking forrad to giving my students when I provide to travel inwards January.




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Words Of Wisdom: Education Foundation Gcse

As expected, the final #mathsTLP of the schoolhouse yr was a flake quieter than usual. As host, 1 of my jobs is to move on the chat flowing. So I filled a gap inwards conversation amongst a question:
I hadn't been planning to inquire this query - it was only the outset affair that came to heed at a minute when I wanted to acquire people talking. But in addition to then something quite extraordinary happened. Over the few days that followed, I was inundated amongst helpful advice - I received over a hundred replies to my question. These words of wisdom come upwards from experienced teachers. Teachers who've taught depression attainers, cared most them, believed inwards them. Teachers who've done everything they tin give the axe to give these students opportunities inwards life, who've position huge amounts of seek into supporting them. I admire these teachers. I desire to last 1 of these teachers.

"Throw away the handbook"  @solvemymaths

I received so much advice that it was all a flake overwhelming. I went dorsum through every notification in addition to made notes. It would last incorrect non to portion or so of the ideas here. After all, I'm non the exclusively instructor who'll last educational activity depression attainers for the outset fourth dimension side past times side year. I promise that others volition also create goodness from all this goodness advice.

1. Building relationships

 "Make them believe inwards themselves"  @FKRitson

There were lots of replies most how to construct self-esteem, confidence in addition to trust. Advice included:
  • "Friday biscuits or a loving cup of tea industrial plant wonders. Instill confidence & allow them know y'all believe inwards them. With 1 of my groups nosotros took a lesson off to blueprint in addition to decorate our ain mugs. Best quote 'Miss, you've got a teapot! That's similar a dead posh restaurant'".    ‏@Ms_Kmp. "I was amazed at the deport upon a loving cup of tea had for 1 immature man. Came for assist & a cuppa every Wed!"  ‏@takepi21
  • "Instilling confidence is the key. Make the lessons non-threatening (they are inwards the laid because they "fear" maths).... Make it dissimilar to the diet they've been served hence far; seek stuff, it volition breed confidence."  ‏@andylutwyche 
  • "Your sales pitch is that it's 'us against the exam', 'we tin give the axe shell this'. Their self belief inwards maths volition last low, they volition last v sensitive to feeling patronised".  ‏@BodilUK 
  • "Give them lots of show to exhibit they're getting C degree operate right. You're non promising it equally a grade, but they demand possibility."  @adamcreen 
  • "Lots of repetition! They'll prob last depression inwards confidence so construct this up. Word things inwards ways that don't belittle them. ... If they don't acquire something, in addition to then "maybe I didn't explicate it really well..." It helps their confidence."  @WelshReady 

2. Pick your battles

"As Napoleon said 'If y'all can't last potent everywhere, option a house in addition to last potent there.'"   ‏@MrMattock

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 number of replies were most choosing which topics to teach. I won't last able to encompass the whole syllabus - far from it - so I should focus on a express number of cardinal topics.
  • "If y'all tin give the axe give them a quick win … that is ever good. Index laws are prissy equally they are legitimately C-Grade but tardily equally hell! ... They won't acquire goodness at it all, so create upwards one's heed what y'all desire them to empathize in addition to reinforce that."  ‏@MrMattock 
  • "Don't last picky either, they mightiness acquire Pythag but non directed numbers."  ‏@DJUdall 
  • "Don't last jump past times the degree of a theme - expanding brackets is easier than many due east degree topics! … Focus on topics amongst visual cues in addition to predictable processes, such equally transformations or scatter graphs."  ‏@danicquinn 
  • "When gearing upwards for the exam, y'all may desire to condense your curriculum into 'hot topics'. Keep it focussed. ... We picked out the favourite thirty or so query types from exams over the final v years."  @jase_wanner 
  • "Doubt you'll last able to acquire through everything. Pick most of import bits in addition to instruct them well" @Teachanana

Many teachers told me that numeracy is key. I volition demand to conduct maintain "a relentless focus on marrow numeracy skills" (@ThainMike).

"Numeracy skills in addition to times tables. Again, over again in addition to and then or so more!" @RandomNumeracy
3. Memorisation

"Go for memorisation through every memorisation technique known to man"  @solvemymaths

For the vast bulk of our students, conceptual agreement is vital. Teaching maths 'properly' is a maths teacher's raison d'être. But these are especial circumstances. Give a depression attaining pupil the chance to acquire a C inwards GCSE Maths - past times whatever agency necessary - in addition to you've opened a window of chance inwards a immature person's life.
  • "I uncovering repetition helps. Do things speedily but repeat often".  ‏@MissMathsDla
  • "Bring multifariousness to memorisation: flash cards, retentivity Rex (one stands upwards in addition to gets drum curl earlier reciting outset 10 primes, etc)... "  @danicquinn
  • "Most of their problems are issues amongst fluency so they can't *get* C/D degree topics when modelled. Remedial operate on number is essential for quite a piece at the start of the year. ... I ever start amongst outset xv squares, outset v cubes, in addition to roots/ cube roots. Make it compulsory to last able to recite them inwards 10 seconds inside a calendar week & time/ game them.  @StuartLock
  • "Find interesting ways to reinforce cardinal number concepts; that volition last their most serious need"  @MrMattock
  • "You desire lightheaded dances, phrases, gesticulations, daft images to associate...everything". @solvemymaths
  • "YMCA becomes y = mx + c... angle sizes memorised past times arm actions... and the circle vocal is a must. Diddle, the median' s the middle"  @7wittermiss.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 number of people recommended Sticky Studying for memorisation techniques.

4. Resources

"Never allow them allow move of the basics. Drill them inwards every lesson".  @DJUdall

Many teachers recommended resources. The by in addition to large mutual recommendation was Numeracy 5-a-day from Corbettmaths.

Times Table Rockstars was also recommended. @MrReddyMaths suggested adapting it past times educational activity the tables upfront each calendar week in addition to cutting out the music - "Emphasise 'competition' amongst themselves past times highlighting how much they're improving over the week".

Mathsbox was recommended, equally were Andy Lutwyche's resources on TES, Bread in addition to Butter resources from Just Maths in addition to Essential Skills from MathedUp!.

Thanks to @tessmaths for sending me a laid of colourful Foundation Revision Cards from the MA - these volition last really helpful.

@DIRT_expert suggested using Cumulative Starters to construct upwards skills in addition to tackle fear. Students are asked the same questions at the start of each lesson but to a greater extent than questions are added equally they larn novel content.

5. More ideas

"You mightn't taste lessons at times; you'll taste the intellectual challenge it'll give you"  @siobhanorb

Here are or so to a greater extent than things I demand to think most inwards my planning:
  • I demand to uncovering out most the literacy levels of my students in addition to their attendance. 
  • A few people suggested entering them for Higher GCSE rather than Foundation (there are mixed views on this). 
  • @ColleenYoung suggested I create lots of curt mini-tests amongst immediate feedback. 
  • ‏@danicquinn suggested mini mocks, where y'all outset operate together on a "mock mock" (same questions, dissimilar numbers) earlier the existent one.
  • @NEdge9 talked most the importance of students knowing the important of key words. She said that sometimes they tin give the axe create the maths but can't recollect what the words mean. 
  • @missdenzil said that lessons should comprise small tasks, lots of dissimilar activities, rewards, competition, whiteboard work, in addition to mastering basics.
Summary
@MrBenWard summarised the cardinal messages nicely inwards this tweet: 
When I outset come across my novel degree inwards September, no doubtfulness or so things volition conduct maintain me past times surprise. But the advice I received this calendar week has got my caput buzzing amongst ideas in addition to I experience laid - dare I tell excited - to acquire started amongst this class.

Huge thank y'all to all who tweeted in addition to emailed me ideas in addition to resources. In lodge to move on this post a reasonable length, I haven't been able to include all the replies I received, but every unmarried slice of advice was valuable in addition to volition last factored into my planning for side past times side year. Thanks also to @ColinTheMathmo for helping me collate in addition to organise the tweets. 

I'm so grateful that I tin give the axe rely on the maths instructor Twitter community to back upwards me throughout the year. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 challenge lies ahead, but I've got adept advisers at manus to catch me through it. 



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Thursday, October 17, 2019

5 Maths Gems #35

Hi there. Welcome to my 35th gems post. This is where I part 5 instruction ideas I've seen on Twitter. The summertime holidays are at nowadays inward total swing thus Twitter has been placidity this week. I hold off it volition acquire busier inward August - results days volition orbit us lots to utter about, as well as and then we'll all start making preparations for September. I'm off on a position unit of measurement vacation side yesteryear side calendar week (including an exciting solar daytime out at Peppa Pig World!) thus somebody volition cause got to fill upward me inward on what I miss! I tweeted my 10,000th tweet yesterday. I exclusively joined Twitter concluding May thus I retrieve that officially makes me a chatterbox.

1. Angle Chase 
I featured angle chases in Gems 24, Gems 26 and Gems 32 . I find this type of action actually enjoyable. @MathedUp shared a whole charge of angle chases here. I honey these - they're a groovy resources both for classwork as well as for revision.
@mathninja3 suggested putting a permanent angle chase on the classroom wall. This reminded me of the display by @ExplainingMaths pictured below. I retrieve it would live on groovy to pose a large angle chase up, possibly yesteryear sticking record on a large whiteboard or a wall painted amongst whiteboard paint. If anyone has done this inward their classroom, I'd honey to encounter a photo.

2. Presentation Standards
I've written earlier most setting expectations for the presentation of classwork as well as homework. The start of a novel schoolhouse yr is the fourth dimension to create upward one's hear how to approach this. latest post about Analysing Errors is no exception. From September I innovation to start setting regular low-stakes tests. For my Year 10s, I'm thinking of a brusque weekly quiz (perhaps multiple choice, marked amongst Quick Key). As suggested yesteryear Sarah, I innovation to flat these quizzes A, B or Not Yet, amongst anyone scoring a Not Yet having to accept some other test. In Sarah's postal service she suggests that earlier retaking a quiz, students are required to analyse their get-go attempt. She's going to orbit them an mistake analysis sail that does these things:
  • Require students to operate out each work correctly
  • Ask students to position what they did incorrect when they get-go attempted the problem
  • Direct students to reverberate on how they volition avoid making this same mistake inward the future
  • Get students thinking most what types of errors they are making
Sarah has produced a fantastic poster to depict dissimilar types of errors. Read her post for to a greater extent than most this as well as to download the poster.
Types of Errors by @mathequalslove
5. The Famous Five
I honey this post from @mccreaemma. It's most an approach called 'The Famous 5' that Emma uses in every lesson. When students move inward the room they are straight off presented amongst a task. The names of 5 students that begin/finish/engage good amongst the chore are written on the whiteboard. Their vantage is to exit the classroom get-go at the destination of the lesson. Emma says that her students honey it (I retrieve this would operate actually good for my students too) as well as it reduces wasted fourth dimension at the start of lessons. Her postal service is good worth a read.

Update
I'm continuing to operate on resourceaholic.com behind the scenes when I acquire a chance. I've added some resources to my libraries as well as made updates to my New GCSE Support page. If you've got some fourth dimension over summertime to brand resources, here's a listing of topics that nosotros demand to a greater extent than resources for:
Huge cheers to post most the additional sequences content on the novel GCSE. It features examples of examination questions as well as resources. I was pleased to acquire a novel method for finding the nth term of a quadratic sequence.

I'm enjoying spending lots of fourth dimension amongst my daughters this summer. It's all going likewise speedily for my liking though! It's August already, which way I'm dorsum to schoolhouse i calendar month today. #mathsconf5 is side yesteryear side calendar month too. Have you lot got your ticket yet?

Finally, I honey this homework for the summertime holidays that's been going circular Twitter. What a lovely idea.
Holiday homework yesteryear Tom Christy



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5 Maths Gems #37

Hello as well as welcome to my 37th gems post. This is where I part around of the best maths teaching ideas I've seen on Twitter. If y'all bask reading these posts as well as thus y'all mightiness similar to explore my novel hashtag #mathsgems to view highlights from previous posts.

Last calendar week I attended #pieandmaths - this was an trial organised past times La Salle Education inwards which a grouping of maths teachers got together to utter over issues inwards maths education. It was a bully twenty-four hr current as well as I've included a curt write-up at the terminate of this post.

I get got a surplus of gems this calendar week thus here's the starting fourth dimension five, alongside v to a greater extent than to follow subsequently this week.

1. Brilliant Indices Question
I starting fourth dimension wrote most Gems 21. I 'like' Brilliant's Facebook page which agency I acquire regular maths problems inwards my Facebook feed. Since I joined Twitter I haven't used Facebook much, simply I've been on in that place quite a flake this calendar week working on my novel Facebook page. Luckily that agency that I spotted this awesome interrogation from Brilliant:
My Year 12s volition endure treated to this inwards September! 

2. 1001 Math Problems
Thanks to Denise Gaskins (@letsplaymath) for sharing the website 1001 Math Problems. This American website was created equally a rootage of problem-solving activities for unproblematic as well as middle schoolhouse children. The problems are accessible as well as engaging. Solutions are included.

Here's a lovely example, taken from the choice of puzzles that explore factors/divisibility:
The problems are mainly suitable for Key Stage two as well as 3. I dearest 'The Spilled Juice Problem'.

3. Simulations
Last August I wrote a post service Animations as well as Simulations, as well as since as well as thus I've occasionally featured animations inwards my gems posts, similar this lovely demonstration of the expanse of a circle from Gems 12.
One of my favourite simulation websites is PhET Interactive Simulations which I'm told is peculiarly useful for teaching Mechanics at Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level. Some of the simulations on PhET are suitable for Key Stage three as well as 4, such equally this estimation activity. Do get got a play alongside this activity, it's great.
Thanks to a tweet from @ChristinaGawlik I've also discovered the lately revamped website www.explorelearning.com. This is the 'world's largest library of math as well as scientific discipline simulations'. These simulations (called Gizmos) are actually good. Unfortunately unless y'all pay a subscription, y'all tin move alone access each Gizmo for 5 minutes. Worth a aspect though.

4. VideoScribe
Chris Smith (@aap03102) shared an impressive promotional video for his newsletters. He said it alone took him xv minutes to brand this video as well as I didn't believe him! I prepare a trial of VideoScribe and constitute out he was correct - it's real quick to brand a video using this software. Here's my crusade - a fun (but pointless!) promo video for resourceaholic.com:



I was wondering if in that place were whatever opportunities to usage this software inwards the classroom when I coincidentally stumbled across this Classroom Expectations video from Cathy Yenca (@mathycathy):



Since starting at a novel schoolhouse as well as having to produce 'proper' deportment administration for the starting fourth dimension time, I've realised the importance of setting expectations for students. I retrieve this approach mightiness brand those expectations to a greater extent than memorable (and fifty-fifty if it doesn't, it's fun to brand the video!). Cathy says, "I conception to present this brief video I created using a free 7-day trial of VideoScribe as well as give students a difficult re-create of classroom expectations to create total inwards a few blanks equally they watch. I may present this several times during the starting fourth dimension few weeks of school, post service it on my website, as well as generate a QR code to link to it when individual needs a reminder".

I spotted Cathy's video inwards her fantabulous post service Primary Maths page which links to blogs as well as resources. I updated my tangents as well as areas based on the novel GCSE specification.

Pie as well as Maths
La Salle Education is a companionship dedicated to improving mathematics education. I dearest La Salle's conferences as well as volition endure presenting at their side past times side conference inwards Sheffield inwards September. Last calendar week La Salle hosted an trial called Pie as well as Maths which was attended past times around of my Twitter buddies, thus it was a proficient run a hazard to grab upwards alongside people as well as utter most maths.

The trial started alongside a demonstration of Complete Mathematics. This is a actually impressive organization as well as if you've non seen it earlier as well as thus it's worth exploring - La Salle tin move come upwards to your schoolhouse to demonstrate it. I actually back upwards the underlying principles of Complete Mathematics - it has the potential to endure the ultimate collaboration tool for maths teachers. The content as well as functionality get got developed good since I starting fourth dimension saw it final summer. The interface is actually user-friendly, allowing teachers to efficiently conception lessons alongside access to well-written objectives, pedagogical notes, resources as well as assessment tools. Complete Mathematics currently covers Key Stage 1 through to GCSE. New content is existence developed for Core Maths, providing much needed construction as well as resources for this novel post-16 qualification.
Can y'all cite the Twitter handles?
We enjoyed a lovely luncheon as well as and thus went to the pub for a debate, led past times Mark McCourt (@EmathsUK). We discussed a number of issues including behaviour, parenting, teaching methods, instructor grooming as well as research.

Afterwards nosotros had lots of fourth dimension to chat as well as play maths games - I ended upwards tied to Bruno Reddy (@MrReddyMaths). This video shows how nosotros got out of it (well done Bruno, I had no idea!).
Thanks to La Salle as well as Mark McCourt for organising a actually enjoyable event. I loved catching upwards alongside Twitter friends as well as coming together novel people - here's the listing of attendees (sorry if I've missed anyone!): @getdiagnostics, @nishadealwis, @mrdrapermaths, @naveenfrizvi, @MissBsResources, @MissBaileyMaths, @kris_boulton, @DrTrapezio, @craigos87, @EJmaths, @tessmaths, @ColinTheTrainer, @MrMattock, @dannytybrown, @RJS2212, @mrreddymaths, @mathsatschool, @MrBenWard, @xanbritt, @CubbonSue as well as @mathsjem.

That's it for today's post. Good luck alongside GCSE results everyone! I'll acquire out y'all alongside this cute Nonagon video shared past times @solvemymaths.

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