Welcome to my 77th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas too resources for maths teachers.
1. Interactive Manipulatives Jonathan Hall (blogged near the features of MathsBot concluding year. Jonathan has latterly added lots of novel content to MathsBot, including a laid of virtual manipulatives which are good worth exploring. They are real helpful for demonstrating things on the board earlier students accept a become amongst actual manipulatives, such equally algebra tiles too Dienes Blocks.
3. AQA Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Level Resources AQA has launched its A score maths e-library. I position a lot of travel into this projection then I actually promise it's useful. It's a non bad identify to search for resources when pedagogy the novel Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level. AQA has too published a novel laid of topic tests for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level.
4. Stickers Have yous seen these amazing stickers from Maths Gear? Take a infinitesimal to read through them. I beloved maths jokes!
If you're always buying a introduce for a maths teacher, I recommend 2 bright websites for mathsy gifts: mathsgear.co.uk and presentindicative.com.
5. Rolling Numbers Naveen Rizvi (blogged near the importance of joining the MA. Recent rumours that our profession mightiness lose the FMSP - i of our most highly valued organisations - way it is straightaway to a greater extent than of import than always to bring together the MA. We require to come upwards together equally a profession to brand our voices heard. Please bring together if yous haven't already.
I'm looking frontward to seeing lots of maths teachers at here. There are alone a few spaces left inwards my workshop then if yous desire to come upwards along too haven't chosen your workshops yet, delight do.
In illustration yous missed them, hither are my recent posts:
In Oct I volition travel presenting on resources at the Power of Six Conference inwards London. Do banking concern stand upwards for this i out - tickets are straightaway alone £50 too in that place are some first-class speakers lined upwards to present.
Finally, don't forget to mass tickets for the Festival of the Spoken Nerd Tour! I'll travel at the Redhill surgery on twelfth October. Can't wait!
This is a big milestone for me. I've published 327 posts since I started writing my spider web log 4 in addition to a one-half years ago. One hundred of those posts convey been business office of my 'Maths Gems' serial - each ane has featured a pick of news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.
When I joined Twitter I couldn't believe how many ideas in addition to resources were beingness shared yesteryear maths teachers everyday that weren't beingness seen yesteryear the hundreds of thousands of maths teachers who aren't on Twitter. I recollect trying to convince a colleague to bring together Twitter in addition to he said 'I merely don't convey fourth dimension for it. I wishing mortal could merely summarise the ideas for me'. So that's what I elbow grease to do.
I used to write ane gems post a calendar week (I was on motherhood leave!) but straight off I operate full-time I exclusively deal ane or ii gems posts a month. Twitter even in addition to hence provides a constant flow of fabric to pick from, in addition to hence I maintain to summarise in addition to portion some of the best ideas, inward the promise that I tin larn these ideas into classrooms all over the world.
To celebrate the fact that this is my 100th gems post, I'll endure recording a exceptional podcast amongst Craig Barton adjacent weekend. In grooming for this podcast Craig wants yous to guide your favourite jewel (there are 500 to guide from, all indexed here). Tweet, DM or electronic mail Craig (or comment below) to explicate why yous chose it, in addition to it could cease upwardly on the show.
On amongst the gems...
1. Mastery Learning Cycle Over the course of written report of the final ii years Mark McCourt (@EmathsUK) has published a series of posts on mastery. You must read these splendid posts if yous haven't already! Oliver Caviglioli (@olicav) in addition to Mark convey worked together to do a poster which visualises Mark's model of the Mastery Learning Cycle.
This is merely an extract - download the poster to sympathize what it's all about. This is definitely something to portion amongst all trainee maths teachers (and likely all experienced maths teachers too).
No incertitude Mark's mass 'Teaching for Mastery', due to endure published inward Spring 2019, volition endure a must-read too.
2. Manipulatives If yous desire to occupation manipulatives inward your didactics but don't know where to start, Craig Barton in addition to Bernie Westacott convey recorded a video podcast that yous volition detect real useful. You tin access the videos through Craig's Youtube playlist. For event hither Bernie explains how to occupation manipulatives to instruct negative numbers:
I've blogged earlier nearly Jonathan Hall's (@StudyMaths) amazing library of virtual manipulatives. It has continued to grow.
One of the novel additions is a bar modelling tool. It's real slowly to occupation in addition to I'm certain lots of teachers volition detect it helpful.
3. Indices Tasks Miss Konstantine (task for exploring indices. Students variety the cards in addition to detect the strange ane out.
I can't maintain upwardly amongst all the ideas in addition to resources that Miss Konstantine (@GiftedBA) has been sharing lately! For event I enjoyed her recent perimeter problems. Check out her Twitter feed in addition to spider web log for lots to a greater extent than neat stuff.
Speaking of indices, I made an indices business for a recent Teach Secondary article. This resources is designed to endure used amongst a Year vii course of written report later on spending some fourth dimension on index notation, but it would operate amongst other yr groups too. The total resources is here - it contains 4 introductory indices activities.
4. Area Here's a overnice thought to assist students develop an agreement of what expanse is. Ilona Vashchyshyn (@vaslona) challenged her students to write their cite in addition to hence that it covers an expanse of precisely 100cm2. Read the thread for ideas on how to extend this activity.
The challenge: Write your cite in addition to hence that it covers an expanse of precisely 100 cm squared.
Love the unlike strategies students used here. E.g. Leia, who chose to brand each missive of the alphabet 25 cm^2. Notice the revisions on the A.#mathchat#MTBoS Cc @PaiMathpic.twitter.com/FowEQoL4I6
5. Assessment and Questioning Mrs Budak (@mrsbudak) tweeted an interesting thought from @teacher2teacher that could operate inward every subject. At the cease of an assessment students are given the chance to write downwardly everything else they know nearly the topics on the test. It stops students beingness frustrated when a examination doesn't encompass the things they revised, in addition to it's likely a adept occupation of fourth dimension to retrieve materials from one's retentiveness in addition to write it downwardly (it definitely beats sitting in that place waiting for the examination to end!).
Finally, for some argue this reminded me of some other jewel that I've been pregnant to portion for ages...
Two years ago, I was proverb “do yous convey whatever questions?”. Last yr I switched to “what questions do yous have?” It made a difference. Today I tried “ask me ii questions”. And they did! And those ?s led to to a greater extent than ?s. It amazes me that the littlest things convey such a big impact!
It such a uncomplicated thought piffling change, in addition to and hence slowly to do! It's worth reading the thread for give-and-take in addition to ideas. Credit to Howie Hua (@howie_hua) for outset tweeting nearly this dorsum inward May. Here's some other of Howie's ideas:
For tests, I dedicate the outset five minutes to convey students lucifer the tests in addition to beak to their grouping nearly strategies (w/out pencils). This lowers their examination anxiety AND when yous walk around, yous listen some of the richest math conversations. #iteachmath
Update I've had a busy few weeks visiting a issue of unlike schools, including ane where I saw soundless instructor inward activity for the outset time.
I helped to run the outset 24-hour interval of a novel London-wide Maths Hub Work Group on developing Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree pedagogy, which is led yesteryear Carlos Karingal. We were fortunate to convey a fantastic grouping of teachers attend in addition to I await forwards to seeing how our Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree didactics develops throughout the year. In my session I talked through some of the ideas inward this splendid piece written by Chris McGrane about approaches to didactics calculus.
Next calendar week I'll endure supporting Chris Reilly inward running some other Maths Hub Work Group - Challenging Topics at GCSE. I'll spider web log nearly this soon.
My 2d Teach Secondary article is straight off available to read online. It's nearly social club of operations, in addition to opportunities to interleave this topic amongst fractions, decimals in addition to algebra.
Did yous encounter that Pearson convey a novel serial of maths textbooks coming out? It's called Purposeful Practice in addition to yous tin thought sample pages here.
Finally, Christmas is fast approaching in addition to hence yous mightiness detect a occupation for my collections of seasonal resources (here and here) - some are topic based in addition to some are for enrichment. I've written diverse posts nearly Christmas presents for maths teachers over the years (here is final year's post on TeachWire if you're looking for inspiration). If yous desire to process yourself during December, the MA has a Christmas advent calendar where yous tin larn daily discounts on MA books.
I'll move out yous amongst this lovely job shared yesteryear James from MathsPad (@MathsPadJames). There are a arrive at of solutions inward the comments (spoiler alert!), but it tin endure solved inward a affair of seconds without whatever workings using GCSE degree maths.
Welcome to my 114th gems post. This is where I part some of the latest news, ideas too resources for maths teachers.
1. Polypad Philipp Legner, author of the beautiful website Mathigon, has been working on some novel resources for schools too teachers. The commencement novel tool - published today - is a library of virtual manipulatives called Polypad.
There are polygons, fraction bars, issue too algebra tiles, Cuisenaire rods, pentominoes, too many other features. Like all of Mathigon, it's completely costless to purpose too industrial plant on all mobile too desktop devices.
2. Don Steward Don has been publishing loads of novel resources lately. I'd dear to part all of them hither simply it makes to a greater extent than feel for yous to see his blog too scroll through them yourself! I've started to add together them to my resource libraries.
One illustration is his recent laid of exercises titled 'Linear equations extras'. Next twelvemonth I'll last teaching a duo of Year 8 classes. The system of run includes a unit of measurement on linear equations. They commencement met this theme inward Year 7. Once I've assessed how expert my pupils are at solving linear equations, I mightiness dip into Don's questions if appropriate - they acquaint a expert chance for stretch too challenge equally good equally interleaving. Take for illustration these linear equations that involve decimals. Here pupils tin develop their fluency inward solving equations too at the same fourth dimension do working alongside decimal operations. 3. Arithmetic Sequences Sarah Carter (blog post virtually how she uses Step Puzzles from Naoki Inaba when teaching arithmetics sequences.
These puzzles are accessible to whatsoever historic catamenia group. By looking at the illustration higher upwards yous tin likely figure out how they run without whatsoever instructions. The numbers along each conduct job must cast a linear sequence.
There are lots of examples on Sarah's weblog - they start off slow simply acquire much to a greater extent than challenging. There's also an English linguistic communication language version of this resources on TES. I'm teaching sequences to Year vii side yesteryear side term - I promise to plow over my pupils some fourth dimension to play alongside these lovely puzzles.
4. Templates Thanks to Ben Gordon (@mathsmrgordon) for sharing a laid of editable worked example templates. There are diverse layouts of Frayer models, illustration pairs, guidance fading too wrong examples.
I'll last using Frayer models side yesteryear side twelvemonth - I convey a plan! 5. Puzzle of the Week Andy Sharpe (@asharpeducator) has been running Puzzle of the Week for a piece now. There are straight off 100 puzzles on puzzleofthweek.com inward the Puzzle Library, all costless too sortable yesteryear theme too difficulty.
Why non encourage your students to submit solutions to the weekly competition? This would run good equally business office of a schoolhouse puzzle club. Information virtually how to come inward is here.
Updates Twitter is relatively serenity during the summertime holidays these days. It's really dissimilar to 5 years agone when the summertime vacation catamenia was awash alongside weblog posts too tweets virtually maths teaching too resources. Conversations this summertime arrive at from a violent combat virtually how to position cream too jam on a scone (I convey no idea, simply I do quite fancy a scone...) too intelligence virtually really horrific political developments (it's similar the Handmaid's Tale is really happening). If you're taking a summertime pause from Twitter, hither are a few bits too pieces yous mightiness convey missed.
I updated my conferences page. It straight off lists national maths instructor events inward 2019/20. If you've non attended before, why non come upwards along to a conference side yesteryear side year? You mightiness dear it.
If yous desire to attend the 1 24-hour interval preparation course 'Marvellous Maths Teaching' that I'm running alongside Craig Barton therefore it would last a expert thought to acquire your asking inward at schoolhouse inward early on September earlier it sells out. We've already sold 100 tickets.
The MA's July 2019 eNews came out, sharing news, puzzles too resources for maths teachers.
Australian maths instructor Wendy Taylor emailed me virtually her website mathsquad.org which includes costless homework booklets for Year 7. If you're thinking of using homeworks for mixed theme retrieval therefore do convey a hold off at these booklets.
I've been working on my workshop for #mathsconf21 inward Peterborough inward October. I've constitute therefore many dandy resources I can't hold off to purpose them alongside my pupils side yesteryear side twelvemonth too part them at the conference.
I mightiness acquaint the same workshop at #mathsconf20 inward Edinburgh simply I can't decide!
I've been working hard on my mass 'A Compendium of Mathematical Methods'. I'm over halfway through straight off too convey started talking to publishers which is really exciting.
Because I'm focusing on my mass summation a duo of other projects this summer, too spending a lot of fourth dimension alongside my household unit of measurement (we're off to Bailiwick of Jersey side yesteryear side week!), I won't last blogging much during the holidays. If you're planning lessons for September therefore yous mightiness abide by some of my posts from previous years helpful, such equally Year vii Maths Activities too Bridging the Gap: Revisited (for Year 12 teachers).
I'll exit yous alongside this moving painting of a weight motorcar that appears to last present a existent life Normal distribution, shared yesteryear @gin_and_tacos.
Welcome to my 77th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas too resources for maths teachers.
1. Interactive Manipulatives Jonathan Hall (blogged near the features of MathsBot concluding year. Jonathan has latterly added lots of novel content to MathsBot, including a laid of virtual manipulatives which are good worth exploring. They are real helpful for demonstrating things on the board earlier students accept a become amongst actual manipulatives, such equally algebra tiles too Dienes Blocks.
3. AQA Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Level Resources AQA has launched its A score maths e-library. I position a lot of travel into this projection then I actually promise it's useful. It's a non bad identify to search for resources when pedagogy the novel Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level. AQA has too published a novel laid of topic tests for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level.
4. Stickers Have yous seen these amazing stickers from Maths Gear? Take a infinitesimal to read through them. I beloved maths jokes!
If you're always buying a introduce for a maths teacher, I recommend 2 bright websites for mathsy gifts: mathsgear.co.uk and presentindicative.com.
5. Rolling Numbers Naveen Rizvi (blogged near the importance of joining the MA. Recent rumours that our profession mightiness lose the FMSP - i of our most highly valued organisations - way it is straightaway to a greater extent than of import than always to bring together the MA. We require to come upwards together equally a profession to brand our voices heard. Please bring together if yous haven't already.
I'm looking frontward to seeing lots of maths teachers at here. There are alone a few spaces left inwards my workshop then if yous desire to come upwards along too haven't chosen your workshops yet, delight do.
In illustration yous missed them, hither are my recent posts:
In Oct I volition travel presenting on resources at the Power of Six Conference inwards London. Do banking concern stand upwards for this i out - tickets are straightaway alone £50 too in that place are some first-class speakers lined upwards to present.
Finally, don't forget to mass tickets for the Festival of the Spoken Nerd Tour! I'll travel at the Redhill surgery on twelfth October. Can't wait!
Welcome to my 77th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas too resources for maths teachers.
1. Interactive Manipulatives Jonathan Hall (blogged near the features of MathsBot concluding year. Jonathan has latterly added lots of novel content to MathsBot, including a laid of virtual manipulatives which are good worth exploring. They are real helpful for demonstrating things on the board earlier students accept a become amongst actual manipulatives, such equally algebra tiles too Dienes Blocks.
3. AQA Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Level Resources AQA has launched its A score maths e-library. I position a lot of travel into this projection then I actually promise it's useful. It's a non bad identify to search for resources when pedagogy the novel Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level. AQA has too published a novel laid of topic tests for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level.
4. Stickers Have yous seen these amazing stickers from Maths Gear? Take a infinitesimal to read through them. I beloved maths jokes!
If you're always buying a introduce for a maths teacher, I recommend 2 bright websites for mathsy gifts: mathsgear.co.uk and presentindicative.com.
5. Rolling Numbers Naveen Rizvi (blogged near the importance of joining the MA. Recent rumours that our profession mightiness lose the FMSP - i of our most highly valued organisations - way it is straightaway to a greater extent than of import than always to bring together the MA. We require to come upwards together equally a profession to brand our voices heard. Please bring together if yous haven't already.
I'm looking frontward to seeing lots of maths teachers at here. There are alone a few spaces left inwards my workshop then if yous desire to come upwards along too haven't chosen your workshops yet, delight do.
In illustration yous missed them, hither are my recent posts:
In Oct I volition travel presenting on resources at the Power of Six Conference inwards London. Do banking concern stand upwards for this i out - tickets are straightaway alone £50 too in that place are some first-class speakers lined upwards to present.
Finally, don't forget to mass tickets for the Festival of the Spoken Nerd Tour! I'll travel at the Redhill surgery on twelfth October. Can't wait!
This is a big milestone for me. I've published 327 posts since I started writing my spider web log 4 in addition to a one-half years ago. One hundred of those posts convey been business office of my 'Maths Gems' serial - each ane has featured a pick of news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.
When I joined Twitter I couldn't believe how many ideas in addition to resources were beingness shared yesteryear maths teachers everyday that weren't beingness seen yesteryear the hundreds of thousands of maths teachers who aren't on Twitter. I recollect trying to convince a colleague to bring together Twitter in addition to he said 'I merely don't convey fourth dimension for it. I wishing mortal could merely summarise the ideas for me'. So that's what I elbow grease to do.
I used to write ane gems post a calendar week (I was on motherhood leave!) but straight off I operate full-time I exclusively deal ane or ii gems posts a month. Twitter even in addition to hence provides a constant flow of fabric to pick from, in addition to hence I maintain to summarise in addition to portion some of the best ideas, inward the promise that I tin larn these ideas into classrooms all over the world.
To celebrate the fact that this is my 100th gems post, I'll endure recording a exceptional podcast amongst Craig Barton adjacent weekend. In grooming for this podcast Craig wants yous to guide your favourite jewel (there are 500 to guide from, all indexed here). Tweet, DM or electronic mail Craig (or comment below) to explicate why yous chose it, in addition to it could cease upwardly on the show.
On amongst the gems...
1. Mastery Learning Cycle Over the course of written report of the final ii years Mark McCourt (@EmathsUK) has published a series of posts on mastery. You must read these splendid posts if yous haven't already! Oliver Caviglioli (@olicav) in addition to Mark convey worked together to do a poster which visualises Mark's model of the Mastery Learning Cycle.
This is merely an extract - download the poster to sympathize what it's all about. This is definitely something to portion amongst all trainee maths teachers (and likely all experienced maths teachers too).
No incertitude Mark's mass 'Teaching for Mastery', due to endure published inward Spring 2019, volition endure a must-read too.
2. Manipulatives If yous desire to occupation manipulatives inward your didactics but don't know where to start, Craig Barton in addition to Bernie Westacott convey recorded a video podcast that yous volition detect real useful. You tin access the videos through Craig's Youtube playlist. For event hither Bernie explains how to occupation manipulatives to instruct negative numbers:
I've blogged earlier nearly Jonathan Hall's (@StudyMaths) amazing library of virtual manipulatives. It has continued to grow.
One of the novel additions is a bar modelling tool. It's real slowly to occupation in addition to I'm certain lots of teachers volition detect it helpful.
3. Indices Tasks Miss Konstantine (task for exploring indices. Students variety the cards in addition to detect the strange ane out.
I can't maintain upwardly amongst all the ideas in addition to resources that Miss Konstantine (@GiftedBA) has been sharing lately! For event I enjoyed her recent perimeter problems. Check out her Twitter feed in addition to spider web log for lots to a greater extent than neat stuff.
Speaking of indices, I made an indices business for a recent Teach Secondary article. This resources is designed to endure used amongst a Year vii course of written report later on spending some fourth dimension on index notation, but it would operate amongst other yr groups too. The total resources is here - it contains 4 introductory indices activities.
4. Area Here's a overnice thought to assist students develop an agreement of what expanse is. Ilona Vashchyshyn (@vaslona) challenged her students to write their cite in addition to hence that it covers an expanse of precisely 100cm2. Read the thread for ideas on how to extend this activity.
The challenge: Write your cite in addition to hence that it covers an expanse of precisely 100 cm squared.
Love the unlike strategies students used here. E.g. Leia, who chose to brand each missive of the alphabet 25 cm^2. Notice the revisions on the A.#mathchat#MTBoS Cc @PaiMathpic.twitter.com/FowEQoL4I6
5. Assessment and Questioning Mrs Budak (@mrsbudak) tweeted an interesting thought from @teacher2teacher that could operate inward every subject. At the cease of an assessment students are given the chance to write downwardly everything else they know nearly the topics on the test. It stops students beingness frustrated when a examination doesn't encompass the things they revised, in addition to it's likely a adept occupation of fourth dimension to retrieve materials from one's retentiveness in addition to write it downwardly (it definitely beats sitting in that place waiting for the examination to end!).
Finally, for some argue this reminded me of some other jewel that I've been pregnant to portion for ages...
Two years ago, I was proverb “do yous convey whatever questions?”. Last yr I switched to “what questions do yous have?” It made a difference. Today I tried “ask me ii questions”. And they did! And those ?s led to to a greater extent than ?s. It amazes me that the littlest things convey such a big impact!
It such a uncomplicated thought piffling change, in addition to and hence slowly to do! It's worth reading the thread for give-and-take in addition to ideas. Credit to Howie Hua (@howie_hua) for outset tweeting nearly this dorsum inward May. Here's some other of Howie's ideas:
For tests, I dedicate the outset five minutes to convey students lucifer the tests in addition to beak to their grouping nearly strategies (w/out pencils). This lowers their examination anxiety AND when yous walk around, yous listen some of the richest math conversations. #iteachmath
Update I've had a busy few weeks visiting a issue of unlike schools, including ane where I saw soundless instructor inward activity for the outset time.
I helped to run the outset 24-hour interval of a novel London-wide Maths Hub Work Group on developing Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree pedagogy, which is led yesteryear Carlos Karingal. We were fortunate to convey a fantastic grouping of teachers attend in addition to I await forwards to seeing how our Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree didactics develops throughout the year. In my session I talked through some of the ideas inward this splendid piece written by Chris McGrane about approaches to didactics calculus.
Next calendar week I'll endure supporting Chris Reilly inward running some other Maths Hub Work Group - Challenging Topics at GCSE. I'll spider web log nearly this soon.
My 2d Teach Secondary article is straight off available to read online. It's nearly social club of operations, in addition to opportunities to interleave this topic amongst fractions, decimals in addition to algebra.
Did yous encounter that Pearson convey a novel serial of maths textbooks coming out? It's called Purposeful Practice in addition to yous tin thought sample pages here.
Finally, Christmas is fast approaching in addition to hence yous mightiness detect a occupation for my collections of seasonal resources (here and here) - some are topic based in addition to some are for enrichment. I've written diverse posts nearly Christmas presents for maths teachers over the years (here is final year's post on TeachWire if you're looking for inspiration). If yous desire to process yourself during December, the MA has a Christmas advent calendar where yous tin larn daily discounts on MA books.
I'll move out yous amongst this lovely job shared yesteryear James from MathsPad (@MathsPadJames). There are a arrive at of solutions inward the comments (spoiler alert!), but it tin endure solved inward a affair of seconds without whatever workings using GCSE degree maths.
Welcome to my 77th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas too resources for maths teachers.
Links to these theme tests too other novel Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 score resources tin travel constitute on my New Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Level Support page.
