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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 #7

Common practise of successful departments' too 'What I learnt today' - both are good worth a read, especially for teachers of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marker maths.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of the inspiration behind today's maths gems has come upward from teachers' blogs - I'm incredibly grateful to those who convey the fourth dimension to part their ideas too experiences for the create goodness of others.

1. Interactive Areas
Computer-based tools receive got made it easier to explicate some mathematical concepts too generate interesting questions. It's fantastic when technology enhances too enriches mathematics education.
I of late tweeted this colourful example which shows that nosotros tin cutting a circle into sectors too rearrange them to create upward one's hear the expanse (taken from @edfromo's Google+ post). @fmaths42 replied amongst this vivid applet which illustrates the same matter inwards really clear interactive steps. Never earlier receive got I seen the formula for the expanse of a circle explained so clearly (and did y'all run across the 'proof without words' video inwards Maths Gems 4? That was skillful too).

Another fantabulous interactive tool is 'Investigating Triangle Area' (via @mathslinks). My students are ever happy to convey that a right angled triangle is one-half a rectangle, but are non so easily convinced for non-right angled triangles. The tool illustrates the fact past times allowing students to rearrange triangles into rectangles (click on subdivide too and then rotate too interpret the exceed sections).

2. Estimation
Examples from estimation180.com
I've seen a lot of American teachers tweet close Common practise of successful departments' too 'What I learnt today' - both are good worth a read, especially for teachers of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marker maths.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of the inspiration behind today's maths gems has come upward from teachers' blogs - I'm incredibly grateful to those who convey the fourth dimension to part their ideas too experiences for the create goodness of others.

1. Interactive Areas
Computer-based tools receive got made it easier to explicate some mathematical concepts too generate interesting questions. It's fantastic when technology enhances too enriches mathematics education.
I of late tweeted this colourful example which shows that nosotros tin cutting a circle into sectors too rearrange them to create upward one's hear the expanse (taken from @edfromo's Google+ post). @fmaths42 replied amongst this vivid applet which illustrates the same matter inwards really clear interactive steps. Never earlier receive got I seen the formula for the expanse of a circle explained so clearly (and did y'all run across the 'proof without words' video inwards Every Math Teacher inwards the World Should Do This...Right Now!' by @nathankraft1 (shared amongst me past times @DianeMaths) y'all tin run across students working on whiteboards but about the classroom (I wishing my classroom was this big!).


Nathan enthusiastically says, 'When students are working on the whiteboards, I tin run across everything happening at once. It's similar I'm looking at the freaking Matrix. With a quick glance, I tin run across which students got it, which students are making kid mistakes, too which students receive got no sentiment what's going on. I tin apace position errors for students. I tin inquire a stronger educatee to help a struggling one. Once a educatee has the right answer, I yell, "Great! Erase it! Next problem!"'. His enthusiasm has rubbed off on me. I desire to endeavour it! And earlier y'all disregard this sentiment because y'all don't receive got a room total of whiteboards, deport inwards hear that whatever vertical surface will create - endeavour writing on windows or using Common practise of successful departments' too 'What I learnt today' - both are good worth a read, especially for teachers of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marker maths.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of the inspiration behind today's maths gems has come upward from teachers' blogs - I'm incredibly grateful to those who convey the fourth dimension to part their ideas too experiences for the create goodness of others.

1. Interactive Areas
Computer-based tools receive got made it easier to explicate some mathematical concepts too generate interesting questions. It's fantastic when technology enhances too enriches mathematics education.
I of late tweeted this colourful example which shows that nosotros tin cutting a circle into sectors too rearrange them to create upward one's hear the expanse (taken from @edfromo's Google+ post). @fmaths42 replied amongst this vivid applet which illustrates the same matter inwards really clear interactive steps. Never earlier receive got I seen the formula for the expanse of a circle explained so clearly (and did y'all run across the 'proof without words' video inwards related post summarises the benefits of 'Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces':
  • Improves visibility.
  • Allows for transfer of noesis but about the room.
  • Non-Permanent removes fearfulness of writing.
  • Formative assessment past times instructor at all times.
  • Teacher tin respond questions past times having students await at others work.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 related sentiment comes from Common practise of successful departments' too 'What I learnt today' - both are good worth a read, especially for teachers of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marker maths.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of the inspiration behind today's maths gems has come upward from teachers' blogs - I'm incredibly grateful to those who convey the fourth dimension to part their ideas too experiences for the create goodness of others.

1. Interactive Areas
Computer-based tools receive got made it easier to explicate some mathematical concepts too generate interesting questions. It's fantastic when technology enhances too enriches mathematics education.
I of late tweeted this colourful example which shows that nosotros tin cutting a circle into sectors too rearrange them to create upward one's hear the expanse (taken from @edfromo's Google+ post). @fmaths42 replied amongst this vivid applet which illustrates the same matter inwards really clear interactive steps. Never earlier receive got I seen the formula for the expanse of a circle explained so clearly (and did y'all run across the 'proof without words' video inwards Improving students' collaboration using acrylic sheets'. Jeremy suggests investing inwards clear acrylic sheets that students tin write on. Diagrams, pictures, axes etc tin live on seat underneath. Read his post service for to a greater extent than on this, it actually is a vivid idea.

Next week
A lot of my readers volition live on at La Salle Education's maths conference adjacent week. I’m actually looking frontwards to it. Please come upward too tell howdy if y'all location me. Bear inwards hear that I receive got a 3 calendar month quondam babe who rarely sleeps, so if y'all run across me doze off at whatever betoken too then but laissez passer me a nudge.

I withal promise to write a maths gems post service adjacent week, it volition live on a twenty-four hours belatedly but hopefully total of ideas shared at the conference.

By the way, if y'all didn't grab my concluding post service 'Common practise of successful departments' too 'What I learnt today' - both are good worth a read, especially for teachers of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marker maths.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of the inspiration behind today's maths gems has come upward from teachers' blogs - I'm incredibly grateful to those who convey the fourth dimension to part their ideas too experiences for the create goodness of others.

1. Interactive Areas
Computer-based tools receive got made it easier to explicate some mathematical concepts too generate interesting questions. It's fantastic when technology enhances too enriches mathematics education.
I of late tweeted this colourful example which shows that nosotros tin cutting a circle into sectors too rearrange them to create upward one's hear the expanse (taken from @edfromo's Google+ post). @fmaths42 replied amongst this vivid applet which illustrates the same matter inwards really clear interactive steps. Never earlier receive got I seen the formula for the expanse of a circle explained so clearly (and did y'all run across the 'proof without words' video inwards Practical tips for a (newly) qualified maths teacher' too then create receive got a look.  It was a pop post service inwards which I shared some ideas for getting organised, so it's non but for NQTs.

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5 Maths Gems #10

Have you lot ever wondered where the give-and-take mathematics comes from? Me neither. But this is genuinely quite interesting:

 Latin mathematica was a plural noun, which is why mathematics has an -s at the terminate fifty-fifty though nosotros usage it every bit a singular noun. Latin had taken the give-and-take from Greek mathematikos, which inward plow was based on mathesis. That word, which was also borrowed into English linguistic communication but is at nowadays archaic, meant "mental discipline" or "learning", peculiarly mathematical learning. The Indo-European root is mendh- "to learn." Plato believed no 1 could endure considered educated without learning mathematics. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 polymath is a individual who has learned many things, non simply mathematics (source: Math Forum).

So my boyfriend polymaths, here's my weekly maths gems. Creative maths teaching ideas, inspired past times the keen minds of Twitter.

1. Etymology
On Tuesday developing maths vocabulary before but at nowadays I own got a novel thought to share.

There's keen value inward talking to students most the etymology (origin) of mathematical words every bit they arise. It helps students brand connections as well as builds on their agreement of mathematics. Our role every bit teachers is to enrich our students' lives alongside knowledge, as well as noesis of etymology is both interesting as well as important. This fantastic article (a must read!) says "Etymology provides a security cyberspace of de-mystification. When all the words you lot listen are novel as well as confusing, or when those around you lot lay quondam words to foreign purposes, a grounding inward etymology may help".

Thanks to @CParkinson535 for telling me most etymonline.com. I've taken the next excerpts from this website, simply to give you lot an thought of the sort of affair you lot could portion alongside your students:
  • hexagon (n.) 1560s, from Latin hexagonum, from Greek hexagonon, from hex "six" + gonia "angle" (see knee).
  • locus (n.) (plural loci), 1715, "locality," from Latin locus "a place, spot, position," from Old Latin stlocus, literally "where something is placed," Mathematical feel past times 1750.
  • vector (n.) "quantity having magnitude as well as direction," 1846; before "line joining a fixed dot as well as a variable point," 1704, from Latin vector "one who carries or conveys, carrier" (also "one who rides"), agent substantive from past times participle stalk of vehere "carry, convey" (see vehicle). 
  • binomial 1550s (n.); 1560s (adj.), from Late Latin binomius "having 2 personal names," a hybrid from bi- (see bi-) + nomius, from nomen. Taken upward 16c. inward the algebraic feel "consisting of 2 terms."
Thanks also to @the_chalkface for sharing the listing of words below, most of which I'd never heard of. Although nosotros should e'er elbow grease to usage accurate mathematical vocabulary when we're teaching, some of these words may endure a pace likewise far!


2. Plickers
I've never paid much attending to interactive voting systems before because my schoolhouse doesn't ain the necessary devices. The thought is that students simultaneously respond to a multiple choice inquiry or sentiment poll using a wireless system. The instructor tin get together as well as analyse their responses instantly.

I can't give my ain sentiment on their effectiveness every bit a teaching tool, but benefits are listed here as: improved attentiveness, increased noesis retention; poll anonymously (unlike a demonstrate of hands); rails private responses; display polling results immediately; practise an interactive as well as fun learning environment; confirm audience agreement of fundamental points immediately; get together information for reporting as well as analysis. So they are similar to mini-whiteboards for formative assessment, but they own got some clear advantages. The primary disadvantage is the buy as well as maintenance cost. 

posts most Plickers lately as well as am keen to seek it out. Plickers is a free app for your telephone or tablet. Print as well as distribute voting cards and enquire students to concur upward their carte du jour inward the right orientation to betoken their answer. Scan the room alongside your telephone to collect the data. You tin charge upward questions as well as students' names on the user-friendly Plickers website. 

I've read some keen ideas to brand this operate good inward maths. One is to permanently stick the cards to the dorsum of students' books (from blog post. It plant similar this: practise a true/false board inward your classroom as well as stick a tilt on it that represents a mutual misconception. Underneath the inquiry are 2 pocket-size whiteboards - 1 for students to write their elevate if they retrieve the tilt is true, the other for students who retrieve the tilt is false. What I similar most this thought is that students tin easily switch their reply from 1 board to the other if they larn something that changes their mind. At the terminate of the calendar week the reply is revealed as well as discussed. Helpfully, Amy's post service provides some event statements to acquire you lot started.

4. Feedback
Now that Ofsted own got helpfully Stuck Post-its' I featured concluding calendar week inward that you'll endure able to run into which questions stay unanswered, but inward improver you'll endure easily endure able to continue an oculus on workings to cheque understanding. 

The minute thought is from @eatf105. At the outset of the yr lay upward a large 'literacy board' showing the letters A to Z. If a pupil hears a novel keyword during a maths lesson, they tin accept a post-it as well as add together the keyword as well as Definition to the Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to Z board. Because post-its oft autumn off, this mightiness operate ameliorate on a pinboard - students could pivot upward an index carte du jour instead. By the terminate of the yr you'll own got a student-made wall of keywords as well as definitions.

What I've been upward to
My post service on teaching trigonometry has been rattling pop this week.

I've also started writing Bitesize Gems (should own got called them Midget Gems - thanks @taylorda01!). These are designed to endure printed onto postcards to furnish flashes of inspiration to busy teachers who don't read my blog. I intend to convert all of my previous gems posts to Bitesize Gems as well as am aiming for a collection of 100.

I've also been exploring my novel subscription to MathsPad. I honey their cleverly designed resources, similar this novel rounding worksheet.


I'll exit you lot alongside a fantastic joke shared past times my proficient friend (and maths rival) from schoolhouse @MikeMJHarris who is at nowadays developing software for mathematics education. I’ll endure sharing this joke alongside my Year 12s when nosotros comprehend convergent geometric series.


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5 Maths Gems #12

This is going to last a relatively curt gems ship service because I'm exhausted from entertaining nineteen toddlers this afternoon at my daughter's 3rd birthday party. So I'll last brief today, but human face a lengthier ship service side past times side calendar week when I've recovered.

1. Area of a circle (again)
In my seventh gems post I shared an applet that beautifully demonstrates how to derive the surface area of a circle past times cutting it into sectors. This calendar week I establish a bright gif that shows the same thing.
This gif is taken from the animatics (animations + mathematics) section of @MathsChallenges' website. The thinking behind this method is neatly explained in Geometry: What is the intuition behind the formula for the surface area of a circle? which was shared this calendar week by @GeometryDad.

2. Standard form
'resources library has unopen to bully ideas.

3. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grade resources
I saw this tweet from @DrTrapezio...

as well as thence I checked this out as well as establish that the Cambridge Mathematics Education Project is inviting schools to register equally affiliates to gain early on access to their costless Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grade maths resources nether development. I'm e'er on the human face out for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grade resources as well as thence I registered. There's loads of bully materials on the website as well as I human face forwards to seeing the collection develop. 

Some of the CMEP's resources are instantly featured on NRICH. For example, the question below is bright (and non equally difficult equally it looks...)

I too similar the 'always, sometimes, never' carte form 'Discriminating'.

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And Parabella is a lovely occupation for your Year 12s studying coordinate geometry.

4. Operation Countdown
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 combination of ideas as well as inventiveness from @LWmathsmatters, @EJmaths as well as @taylorda01 led to this splendid 'Operation Countdown'. I oftentimes role the 'four threes' action equally a plenary inward an monastic state of operations lesson alongside Year 7 but it plant alongside whatsoever historic menses group. I 1 time used it equally a Year xiii starter as well as they actually enjoyed it. The version below involves 5 threes but it's the same idea.
This painting demo is from @taylorda01. @EJmaths also made this PowerPoint which includes a dark as well as white version.

5. #units #ruler #workings 
I read the ship service 'Hashtag closure' past times A identify for gimmicks?'). David's ship service is virtually using a hashtag to summarise a lesson. 

Then A Frenzy of Marking: 'Progress Over Time' virtually feedback stickers. When I mark, I create honour that I write the same thing over as well as over again, as well as thence stickers would salvage me a lot of time. Problem is, I'm non organised plenty to role stickers. I create my marker inward a multifariousness of locations as well as unremarkably simply receive got a cherry pen to hand. Hashtags volition operate simply equally good equally stickers, equally long equally my students sympathise the important of the hashtags.

When I grade I'm non succinct enough. For instance I oftentimes write 'please become to assist lodge at 1.30pm on Midweek inward Room 111 for assist alongside this topic'. Instead, I could write #helpclub. I too write things similar 'Look at the query - y'all were meant to circular your reply to 1 important figure'. I could simply write #rounding. My students volition learn what I hateful (especially if they receive got this key inward their practise books) as well as it volition salvage me loads of time. "What's the indicate inward the # symbol?" I take away heed y'all inquire - well, yes, the symbol isn't essential, but #MrsMorganLikesHashtags as well as they're non doing whatsoever impairment are they? :)

So that's it - 5 quick gems from a busy mathematical mum. I was planning to characteristic unopen to thoughts virtually the value (or lack of value) of iPads inward maths teaching today but didn't learn fourth dimension to create the inquiry required, as well as thence volition salvage that for my side past times side gems post.

I'm too planning to write a ship service virtually circle theorems side past times side week. I've got unopen to ideas but if you
receive got an interesting agency of teaching circle theorems or whatsoever amazing resources, delight allow me know.

Also, don't forget to banking concern friction match out my other website, prethomework.weebly.com - the extensive collection has grown over half-term.

I'll exit y'all alongside a base of operations eleven abacus which I recollect is cute but volition annoy @solvemymaths (see his ship service 'My Base eleven Abacus Bugbear').


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Back To School

In 2 weeks I'll provide to schoolhouse from motherhood leave. I've done this before, only non mid-way through a schoolhouse year. I'll exclusively last working 3 days a calendar week only instruction 8 dissimilar classes, all shared amongst approximately other teacher. It's going to last a challenge.

On locomote past times of the anxieties associated amongst instruction lessons for the commencement fourth dimension since May, I'll last getting my 7 calendar month sometime infant settled into plant nursery - I know from experience that this tin last hard together with emotional. Although these challenges are a footling daunting, I'm excited to essay out all the novel instruction ideas that I've picked upward from all the blogs together with tweets I've read over the final half dozen months. I'm going dorsum to schoolhouse amongst fresh enthusiasm for instruction maths. In this post service I desire to country you lot most a few of the things I've got lined upward for January.

1. Exercise Books
I despair when I encounter teachers spending their hard-earned meagre salaries on supplies for work, only I'm guilty of it too. I've stocked upward on pretty stationery, folders, board pens, post-it notes... together with this fourth dimension I've gone a pace farther together with bought my ain exercise books!

As an experiment, I'm going to essay out these maths books 2.0 from Design Thinking. One of the features of these books is the checklist, commutation words, farther questions together with commutation facts sections at the bottom of each page. I recollect my students volition dear having these exceptional books together with volition accept to a greater extent than pride inwards their work. I also recollect I'll aspect frontwards to marker these books (at first!), to encounter what words, facts together with questions my students have got chosen to write inwards the boxes.
Including stamp these toll me £40 for threescore books so I'll essay them amongst 2 classes together with encounter how it goes. I'm crossing my fingers that they brand it inwards fourth dimension for the start of term! (and that my hubby doesn't discovery out that I spent my ain coin on supplies for school!).

2. Expectations
I'm planning to laid out my presentation expectations amongst all my students at Key Stage 3 together with 4 using a poster: 'gems 14 for details.
3. Hashtag Marking
I featured my ideas for hashtag marker inwards gems 12. I'm planning to have got a become at this - each of my students at Key Stage 3 together with 4 volition last issued amongst a Hashtag Marking Key (I'll impress it on A5 so they tin stick it inwards their maths mass or planner). I have got a feeling I'm going to have got a huge marker workload this twelvemonth so hopefully this volition salvage me approximately time.
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4. Work Review Log
Based on an thought inwards this tweet, I programme to innovate a feedback log at Key Stage 5. I commonly laid a slice of assessed locomote for my H5N1 bird students every week. I ever position a lot of endeavor into providing written feedback, so I'd similar to ensure my students are reading together with reflecting on my comments. I'll inquire them to proceed this Work Review Log at the front end of their folders together with I'll laissez passer on them an chance to consummate it every fourth dimension I provide a slice of work.
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The other thing I desire to produce amend this twelvemonth is ensuring that my H5N1 bird students are doing homework on their own. I'm happy for my students to aid each other inwards course of study together with on non-assessed homeworks (eg 'finish the textbook exercise'), only if I laid a slice of locomote for marker it should last reflective of each student's private bird of understanding, non that of a grouping of friends. In the past times I've had 6th shape students getting As inwards their homeworks throughout the twelvemonth (because they have got a clever friend, or fifty-fifty a tutor) together with and so doing terribly inwards their actual exam.

5. Mistake Log
All my students volition have a Mistake Log to stick inwards the front end of their mass or folder. The thought is that whenever they brand a mistake, whether because of a careless sideslip or a misconception, they tape that mistake. Again, similar the Work Review Log, I promise it helps ensure that students are reading my feedback together with reflecting on how they tin improve. I recollect they'll discovery this log useful when they come upward to revise.

6. #ByYourSide
I actually recollect every instructor should ensure their dependent area cognition is upward to scratch every bit a affair of priority. And what amend chance to bear witness your ain dependent area cognition than sitting the qualification that you're responsible for teaching? I promise to sit down the Maths GCSE exams amongst my students this summer. I recollect they'll appreciate the human activity of solidarity, together with hopefully my instruction volition produce goodness too. Although I'm really confident of my GCSE knowledge, I'll experience huge pressure level to larn 100% so I amend last careful non to brand whatever dizzy mistakes! I also intend to sit down H5N1 bird maths this summer. This is a much scarier prospect. For C3 (which I've never taught) together with C4 I'll sure have got to revise together with practise. I'm convinced this volition brand me a amend H5N1 bird teacher. I already fearfulness beingness stumped past times a tricky C4 integration question! I did a statistics grade so haven't studied pure maths since I did my H5N1 levels inwards 1999. But if I instruct it together with so I should know it similar the dorsum of my manus shouldn't I? I promise I larn permission to produce these exams because I recollect it volition last a actually worthwhile exercise. Anyone amongst me? :)

7. Apps
I'm thinking most taking my iPad into school, if I tin prise it away from my toddler. I'm actually non bad to essay Idoceo because teachers on Twitter rave most it. But my schoolhouse has started using Mint Class this twelvemonth together with I desire to avoid duplication. So Idoceo mightiness have got to hold off until side past times side September, when I'll last at a novel school.

I'm also non bad to essay Plickers together with Quick Key, both of which I've written most inwards my gems posts, together with I'm considering using iVisualiser too.

8. Resources
I've been lucky plenty to have a brace of lovely freebies late - ane of my favourite resources websites MathsPad have given me a gratuitous subscription that I can't hold off to use! I'm also interested in Create a Test. The prissy people at Create a Test have got given my schoolhouse a 3 calendar month gratuitous lawsuit of their test-writing tool. I wonder whether other schools are inwards the same province of affairs every bit us - nosotros laissez passer on all our Key Stage 3/4 students 3 or 4 tests a twelvemonth (including an goal of twelvemonth exam) together with this is how nosotros create upward one's heed maths sets for the side past times side twelvemonth (I should cite at this yell for that I'm non supportive of a 'teach to the test' civilization inwards maths together with would dear to listen option approaches). Anyway, because these are 'high stakes' tests, nosotros desire to avoid whatever run a jeopardy of papers beingness seen inwards advance, so nosotros create novel tests every year. This is actually fourth dimension consuming so we'd produce goodness from a skillful character test-writing tool amongst a large depository fiscal establishment of questions. I'll study dorsum on how we're getting on amongst Create a Test inwards a brace of months.

So that's a few of the highlights of my electrical flow 'going dorsum to school' resources together with plans. Now I have got the most of import thing to produce - I postulate to start planning my lessons. I'll last doing circle theorems amongst Year 10, which is convenient because I late wrote a post service most instruction circle theorems. Unfortunately I've also been assigned 'constructing triangles' amongst my Year 8s - my to the lowest degree favourite topic inwards the world! Any ideas to brand this to a greater extent than bearable would last gratefully received!


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Thursday, October 17, 2019

5 Maths Gems #40

Hello too welcome to my 40th gems post. This is where I percentage 5 maths education ideas I've seen on Twitter.

I've been education long plenty to know how busy September is, precisely in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than the overwhelming workload has come upwardly equally a shock! New classes, novel tutor group, novel systems, novel policies... I'm certain it volition all calm downwards shortly (well, possibly adjacent July!). However, hence far hence expert - my novel schoolhouse is awesome too I'm enjoying getting stuck into education again.

1. Play With Your Math
Thanks to Craig Jeavons (@Craigos87) for sharing a website I'd non seen earlier -playwithyourmath.com. Maths problems are posted every fortnight - they tin move downloaded equally posters too worksheets. Here's a brace of examples:

2. Estimating Percentages
In #mathsTLP on Sunday @jeff2869 shared a overnice estimation tool - Estimate the Percentage. It's a straightforward activity for the Interactive Whiteboard that volition move useful for assessing agreement of percentages.
3. Ordering Numbers
I similar activities involving ordering numbers, too I especially similar the selection of numbers inwards these 2 activities from Chris Stapel (@StapelMathClass).


4. Number Starters
Back inwards Gems 34 I mentioned www.mathematicshed.com. These are corking warm-up tasks for practising arithmetic.
5. Marking Stickers
I've seen some lovely examples of marker stickers this week. Anthony Biggs (@MathsDirectory) made these for presentation too examination tips:
Miss Bowkett (@MissBowkett) shared her yellowish marker stickers which include feedback on presentation, 'what went well' too adjacent steps.
Update
I've enjoyed coming together all my novel classes over the terminal 2 weeks. I've already used loads of wonderful Don Steward activities - this makes me happy!
3.142 variations
This calendar week I used Find the Factors puzzles for the root time. I used a Level iv puzzle inwards my root lesson alongside Year 10 too a Level 1 puzzle inwards my root lesson alongside Year 7. These puzzles are corking for practising times tables too using logic. Students inwards both classes said they wanted to endeavour to a greater extent than challenging Find the Factors puzzles hence I'll definitely piece of job these again.
Another success this calendar week was my root Memory King tournament - I had a Year eleven pupil recite the root x prime numbers inwards 2.45 seconds!

I've got 3 novel Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grade classes too am finding that they're all real placidity too hardworking. When they're doing a do exercise yous could withdraw heed a pivot drop. They never inquire for assist or piece of job together. At my previous school, 6th shape students were much chattier during lessons - although they were less focused, they did inquire each other for assist a lot, hence it was a mixed blessing. Hannah (‏@LorHRL) made a helpful proposition on Twitter this calendar week - she said that playing music during lessons helps because too hence students don't lead maintain to suspension the quiet to speak. I took her advice too played placidity classical music during 2 Year thirteen lessons - it worked well. The atmosphere inwards the room was calm too relaxed - students continued to focus precisely were to a greater extent than willing to inquire for assist from me or their peers.

Recent Posts
Last calendar week I wrote a post service nearly High Expectations. I discussed the importance of pitching lessons right precisely non dumbing downwards the content. Do lead maintain a expression if yous missed it.

My school's annual Open Evening is adjacent week. If yous lead maintain 1 coming upwardly too, yous mightiness notice my post service about Open Evening helpful - it has lots of ideas for the Maths Department.

I was going to write a post service nearly literacy precisely I've been equally good busy to plough over it my total attending this week. I decided to summarise 5 golden rules instead - reckon below. I reckon many resources that comprise spelling mistakes, grammatical errors (particularly missing interrogation marks too errant apostrophes) or wrong terminology. Please don't piece of job them! It's non fair on your students.
Coming Soon
I'm hosting #mathscpdchat at 7pm on Tuesday 15th September. The theme is 'What expectations are yous communicating to your Year 10 students equally they start on the revised GCSE course?'. I promise yous tin bring together in.

I also promise you're planning to come upwardly to #mathsconf5 in Sheffield on 26th September (it's non equally good belatedly to register). Do come upwardly too say hello. I'll move around for pre-conference drinks on the Fri nighttime too. I'm rather upset (actually, brand that devastated!) that I'm missing the 1 workshop that I desperately wanted to larn to - unfortunately it clashes alongside my workshop. I would real very much appreciate it if mortal who attends Kris Bolton's session 'The Stories of Maths' writes a detailed post service nearly literally everything he says. Or - fifty-fifty ameliorate - could yous cinema his workshop on your tablet? I'd move hugely grateful.

I'll move out yous alongside these give-and-take points from my school's root maths faculty coming together of the twelvemonth (sorry, I don't know the master copy source). What activeness would yous lead maintain inwards each case? Answers on a postcard please!


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