Multiple Alternative Questions

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) bring ever been pop inward maths inward roughly parts of the world. In recent years they bring gained popularity inward England in addition to Wales, in addition to are similar a shot usually used every bit a diagnostic tool inward the classroom. MCQs are also similar a shot a commutation characteristic of AQA's GCSE papers.

Some teachers bring been scream for where they tin discovery MCQs that are aligned amongst our curriculum. I've listed roughly sources below - if y'all bring anything to add, delight email me.

1. Foundation in addition to Higher GCSE Multiple Choice Questions by Topic
Suitable for Key Stage three in addition to 4.
I institute these multiple choice quizzes at function - I believe they were written past times Julie Bolter, likely to accompany a textbook. There are quizzes for a seat out of topics including sequences, measure shape in addition to coordinates.

2. Foundation in addition to Higher GCSE Multiple Choice Revision Questions
Suitable for Key Stage three in addition to 4.
There's a large selection of multiple choice questions here, both inward PowerPoint in addition to Word. The topics are mixed then these would move useful for examination revision or retrieval practice. Thanks to Mitesh Patel for sending me these. We don't know the master copy source then delight tweet or e-mail me if y'all know.

3. Diagnostic Questions
Suitable for Key Stages ane - 5.
This fantastic website from Craig Barton has a huge hit of multiple choice questions, contributed past times users. You tin chop-chop do quizzes for purpose amongst mini-whiteboards, voting cards or Plickers. The most powerful seem of this website is the chance to laid students quizzes online - this allows teachers to read explanations in addition to thence analyse students' thinking.

It's worth checking out the ready made quiz collections including quizzes from White Rose, UKMT, Edexcel, AQA in addition to OCR.

Grace Horne, who is Head of Maths at Kettering Science Academy, has sent me her amazing set of multiple choice quizzes. She's made 85 consistently formatted quizzes, each containing 5 questions drawn from diagnosticquestions.com. Quizzes are categorised past times topic in addition to GCSE tier. Answers are provided. This is a really helpful resource! Huge thank y'all to Grace for sharing this.

4. SQA
Suitable for Key Stage 5.

The Scottish Qualifications Authority used to set Objective Tests for Higher Mathematics. These comprise lovely questions for Year 12 in addition to 13, roofing topics such every bit calculus, trigonometry, sequences, vectors in addition to the equation of a circle. Thanks to Helen Dey for telling me most these. Thanks also to @mrallanmaths for sharing this editable banking concern of Objective Test questions.

5. Integral

Suitable for Key Stage 5.
MEI provides a slap-up selection of multiple choice tests for H5N1 score Maths in addition to Further Maths on Integral (school login required). The representative below is from a Normal Distribution assessment for Edexcel S1.

6. 30 Number Starters
Suitable for Key Stage three in addition to 4.
Ben Cooper (@bcoops_online) on TES provides a PowerPoint of 30 multiple choice quizzes for diverse seat out topics including fractions, decimals in addition to percentages. 

7. Functional MCQs
Suitable for Key Stage ii in addition to 3.
Thanks to Jon Treby for this laid of Functional Multiple Choice Questions. They are separate past times topic in addition to all questions are contextual.

8. Foundation of Advanced Mathematics 

Suitable for Key Stage 4.

Stuart Price (@sxpmaths) wrote a post most using multiple choice questions from Foundation of Advanced Mathematics exams for Year 10 revision competitions. There's a seat out of past times papers to depict questions from - most of the topics are from GCSE in addition to the questions are suitable for extension inward Year 10 in addition to 11.

There's lots to explore here! If I've missed anything, delight e-mail it to resourceaholic@gmail.com. Thank you!

Some Things I've Tried

The in conclusion 8 weeks have got been the busiest I've e'er experienced. There's been lots of factors at play to brand this current specially exhausting, both at schoolhouse as well as at abode - it doesn't assist that my 17 calendar month former immature adult woman nonetheless doesn't slumber at night! H5N1 interruption is much needed. Half term also provides a practiced chance to reverberate on roughly novel things I've tried this term.

Source: The Guardian/ Ros Asquith

1. Famous Five
This is an thought from Gems 35. It plant similar this:

1. Before each Year 10 lesson, I write the words 'Famous Five' on the board.
2. As my students brand it I have got a starter activity ready for them. 
3. Under the championship Famous Five, I write the names of the first of all v students to settle downward as well as start working. They LOVE existence on this list! It's getting harder to select the Famous Five because they've all responded thus good to this.
4. At the destination of the lesson I say, "If you're on today's Famous Five listing you lot tin larn out now, the remainder of you lot pack upwards as well as stand upwards behind your chairs quietly". The Famous Five dash out of the room.

The funny affair is that roughly of these students have got registration inward the same room directly after my lesson, thus they have got nowhere to rush off to! They simply similar the glory of existence Famous Five. 

This has been a actually successful inaugural to minimise faff at the outset of my lessons. Also, because it's a fleck dissimilar to what they're used to, it has helped me construct a practiced human relationship alongside this class. Huge thank you lot to Emma Mccrea for sharing the thought - hit read her original post to encounter how it plant for her.

2. Assessment 

I've been doing variety of sources and keep the format consistent - each quiz is xv minutes long as well as consists of 12 multiple pick questions.

These quizzes have got chop-chop conk an established routine. Most students have got total payoff of the 'open book' dominion - during the examine I encounter them looking dorsum through their exercise books at notes as well as examples. This encourages practiced complaint taking during lessons.

I degree the quizzes A, B or Not Yet (inspired past times this post from Sarah Hagan). If a educatee receives a 'Not Yet' as well as thus they haven't demonstrating sufficient agreement of the theme thus they have got to have got roughly other quiz after schoolhouse the next week. Of class at that spot has to hold upwards remedial activeness betwixt receiving a 'Not Yet' as well as resitting the quiz - these students either encounter me for assist after lessons, or I ship them links to Corbett Maths or Hegarty Maths videos.

My first of all quiz resulted inward xiii Not Yets as well as entirely 8 As. H5N1 worrying disclose of students couldn't multiply decimals thus I taught the theme to the whole cast in ane trial again using a dissimilar approach. The results were much improved inward the retake.

These quizzes entirely have got virtually xxx minutes to score - inward those xxx minutes I gain a valuable insight into my students' understanding. I promise that these regular depression stakes quizzes volition encourage my students to rest focused, have got practiced notes as well as seek support. Do read Kris Boulton's post 'How tests learn as well as motivate' which inspired me to start doing these quizzes. So far it's been a slap-up success.

3. Modelling Good Work 

Every classroom inward my subdivision has a visualiser. Unfortunately none of them seem to travel (probably due to recent software updates) thus this foiled my invention to utilise visualisers this twelvemonth to demo examples of educatee work. Instead, I have got photos of practiced travel piece I'm marking. There's no indicate inward telling students that they should laid their travel out amend without giving examples.

I've been trying this out alongside my Year 12 class. They're studying S1 as well as we've been working on summarising information (eg hateful as well as criterion divergence of continuous data). It's slowly to brand accuracy slips inward these calculations as well as students who neglect to demo clear workings inward exams could destination upwards scoring no method marks.

The painting demo below is an instance of a student's respond to a criterion divergence enquiry - I showed this photograph to the cast when I returned their most recent homework. Few students inward this cast had received total marks for this question.

It's non perfect, but this educatee has definitely got the correct idea. He's drawn out the whole tabular array clearly as well as written downward the formula for criterion deviation. He's shown intermediate steps as well as his workings are really slowly to follow. If entirely all my students laid their travel out similar this - the worst examples were those who tried to squelch their workings into the margin of the enquiry newspaper ('Fermat-style' workings). I promise that past times showing practiced examples to the class, the character of travel volition improve. I'll written report dorsum on this subsequently inward the year!

4. Communication
At my previous schoolhouse the entirely straight communication I had alongside parents was on Parents Evening. I never called, emailed or met alongside parents. At my novel schoolhouse every instructor recognises the importance of engaging parents as well as this is done really effectively across the school. I decided to engage the parents of my Year 10 students past times means of an introductory electronic mail at the start of term, followed past times half-termly newsletters. Here's my first of all newsletter:

I've included an update on what we've been studying, praise for students who've done specially well, information virtually membership of the Society of Young Mathematicians and more.

I'd been planning to hit a newsletter similar this for years thus I'm glad I finally did it. I found this MathedUp post encouraging - it includes a lovely instance of a newsletter produced past times Mo Ladak which is worth a look.

As Jim Riley (@tutor2u) said when I shared my newsletter on Twitter, "Most parents mightiness non tending - but if simply ane or 2 do, it is all worthwhile".

So that's it - 4 ideas that seem to hold upwards working well. I'll weblog in ane trial again subsequently this twelvemonth to update you lot on whether these initiatives conk along to hold upwards effective. Thanks for reading!

5 Maths Gems #47

Hello as well as welcome to my 47^th gems post. This is where I part 5 maths teaching ideas I've seen on Twitter.

1. Don's Multiple Choice
I oft write close Don Steward's resources - it's worth checking his weblog every at in i trial as well as and thus to run across what he's added. This calendar week I was browsing his 'practice as well as quiz questions' weblog (which is split upwards to his primary blog) when I noticed that he has started to hit fantabulous sets of multiple alternative questions - here's an example:

 He has also produced unopen to lovely 'odd i out' activities:

Both types of action would operate amongst technologies such every bit Plickers or Quick Key. Multiple alternative questions are making a flake of a comeback at the instant - for to a greater extent than sources, run across my transportation 'Multiple Choice Questions'.

2. Inequality Question
I actually similar this inquiry from Steve Blades (@m4thsdotcom). Ask your students for the minimum as well as maximum value of abc to banking concern agree their understanding of inequalities as well as integers.

I'll role this amongst my Year 11s - many of them struggled amongst the inquiry below inward their mock GCSE, which suggests a lack of substitution understanding of inequality symbols. 

3. Math Wall of Shame

Thanks to Megan Schmidt (Starters as well as Progress Tests for the novel GCSE. 

Update
My post Five things you lot mightiness non know close the novel GCSE content #1 was good received. I promised a 2nd transportation amongst 5 to a greater extent than facts close the novel GCSE... I'm working on it precisely I intend I've establish unopen to discrepancies betwixt bear witness boards that I'm investigating. Watch this space!

There's been 2 announcements since my final gems transportation that you lot mightiness survive interested in. The kickoff is that the appointment as well as venue has been laid for researchED Maths as well as Science. It's on Sat 11th June inward Oxford. I intend this volition survive a fantastic event. I bring to attend a marriage reception inward Kent that evening so I'll bring to locomote out early, precisely volition definitely survive at that spot inward the morning. Tickets are probable to sell out quickly.

The 2nd statement was regarding novel tests for times tables. We all concur that fluency inward times tables is vital (as is conceptual understanding of multiplication) precisely at that spot is disagreement over whether to a greater extent than Key Stage 2 tests are desirable.

It's also worth noting unopen to other alter regarding testing (see above) - from 2017 Year vii maths teachers volition bring iii months to 'fix' students who did non 'pass' Key Stage 2...

It's been a hectic kickoff calendar week dorsum at schoolhouse precisely thankfully this weekend I didn't bring whatsoever marker to hit thus I had the chance to catch the fantabulous Escher exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. It finishes on 17th Jan thus if you lot desire to larn as well as thus larn tickets now! The gallery store is total of mathsy gifts too.

I'll locomote out you lot amongst a prissy demonstration of Pythagoras' Theorem from mathwarehouse.com.

Going Well...

I'm struggling amongst workload at the 2d but I'm taking a quick intermission from the mark together with UCAS references to part 3 things that are going actually good this year.

1. Low Stakes Quizzes 

I started doing regular multiple pick quizzes amongst my Year 10s concluding twelvemonth together with straightaway loved it (I wrote virtually it here). I've never done anything earlier that's given me so much insight into my students' agreement together with the effectiveness of my teaching. My Year 10s ended upwards beingness taken past times a PGCE pupil for a pregnant business office of the twelvemonth so the quizzes stopped, but I possess got reintroduced them this twelvemonth amongst the same course of teaching (now Year 11) together with ane time to a greater extent than I'm reminded of how awesome these quizzes are.

My weekly quizzes possess got twenty minutes to run inwards the lesson (we create it every Friday), addition virtually twenty minutes to grade later on the lesson. The quizzes don't possess got long to brand when I'm planning my lessons - lately I've merely been using the snipping tool to possess got questions from Diagnostic Questions (shhh, don't tell Craig!). You tin laissez passer the sack persuasion my quizzes here.

I laissez passer each pupil a flat (A, B or Not Yet) together with anyone who scores 100% gets a sticker (they honey that!). The quizzes are opened upwards majority so there's no stress for students - inwards fact they honey them (I larn a cheer when I nation it's fourth dimension for the quiz!) together with they are e'er excited to run across their score inwards the side past times side lesson. For me 'it's similar I'm looking at the freaking Matrix' (in the words of Nathan Kraft inwards this post virtually vertical whiteboards!). Seriously, this is ane of the best things I've ever done.

2. Folders
My Year 11s at nowadays purpose band binders instead of practise books. It's brilliant. I require to write a divide post service virtually how this industrial plant because there's lots to say. Loads of people told me it wouldn't work, mainly because the folders would speedily larn disorganised (which may still happen - we're entirely 3 weeks in), but I've designed a proficient laid of resources that minimise the guide a opportunity of messy folders. I'm pretty confident that it volition proceed to operate well. Watch out for a post service virtually this!

3. Times Table Rock Stars
I'm non certain I'm allowed to pose photos of my students on my blog, but if I could together with then you'd run across the happy faces of my Year 7s absolutely loving Times Tables Rock Stars (whilst wearing wigs together with sunglasses!). All Year vii teachers at Glyn at nowadays possess got ane lesson inwards an information technology Room every fortnight to run a Times Tables Rock Stars lesson. I create the newspaper version amongst my course of teaching too, addition I've merely launched an later on schoolhouse 'Rock Gods' social club for neat Year 7s. H5N1 pose out of teachers possess got also fix other classes (Year 8 to Year 10) together with it seems to locomote going good all round. My students happily sit down at that spot for a amount sixty minutes enthusiastically practising times tables, together with I larn to take away heed to stone music so it's win-win...!

So that's 3 things are going especially good for me this year. Are you lot trying anything novel that seems to locomote working? Please tweet me or comment below.

5 Maths Gems #69

Welcome to my 69^th update from the globe of Maths EduTwitter. This is where I part closed to of the latest ideas together with resources for didactics maths.

1. New Diagnostic Questions Collections 
I exercise diagnosticquestions.com every calendar week to do multiple selection quizzes for my classes. I especially similar the questions provided yesteryear AQA, OCR together with Edexcel. Recently I've also been making exercise of the novel questions provided yesteryear White Rose Maths Hub. These are designed for primary students but select worked good amongst my Year 7s.

I'm pleased to come across that novel themed collections from the Great Britain Mathematics Trust volition available soon. These volition go helpful for both stretch together with challenge inwards lessons together with for UKMT maths challenge preparation.

2. Don's Blogs
I've written virtually Don Steward's resources many times. He is 1 of my favourite maths resources authors. His top dog weblog donsteward.blogspot.co.uk is packed amount of wonderful rich tasks for a broad arrive at of topics. Don has a few other blogs that are also good worth exploring:

• mutiple selection quizzes, odd 1 out activities and revision exercises.

• fraction addition and negative numbers) together with stretch together with challenge.

• long multiplication, decimal addition and angles inwards polygons.

Don also has a weblog 'core pure iii notes' amongst lovely clear slides together with questions for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 score together with 'MEDIAN + ICT choices' where he shares lots of first-class websites together with technologies.

Follow @Team_Maths1 on Twitter for regular updates of Don Steward's latest resources (this is merely me on closed to other account!).

3. Arrays
Ed Southall (@solvemymaths) made closed to other video! This 1 is on multiplication arrays.



If y'all missed Ed's first-class polygons video, banking concern tally out Gems 67.

4. Breaking Down the Big Questions
Thanks to Mr Chadburn (@mrchadburn) for sharing an interesting novel resources idea. Some of the bigger GCSE questions require a issue of unlike strands of noesis together with skill. He breaks these large questions downward into these strands together with has students practise each strand separately earlier bringing it all together to address the bigger problem. Mr Chadburn has blogged virtually this together with shared 2 resources here.

There are lots of GCSE questions that would function good amongst this approach - this challenging inquiry from a Churchill Maths paper is a skilful example.

I intend this sentiment powerfulness function good at Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 score too.

5. crashMATHS
Website crashmaths.com shares GCSE together with A level exercise papers which are good worth a look. Through their Twitter employment organization human relationship (@crashMATHS_CM) they volition go sharing daily questions inwards the sew together to GCSE exams.

Update

It's been a busy few weeks. I've been doing closed to function for TES, helping to laid topic-specific pages of recommended gratuitous resources - I volition part these pages when they are published. Whilst doing this function I discovered that the novel GCSE topic 'area nether a graph' was rather under-resourced, together with thence I created a span of novel resources: area nether a graph and exam questions. They're nil special but hopefully fill upward a gap.

I've also been busy adding lots of first-class novel resources links to my resource libraries.

Did y'all grab my latest post? I wrote an article for teachwire.net virtually maths clubs for both primary together with secondary schools.

My schoolhouse is advertising 2 roles for a September 2017 start: Maths Teacher together with Lead Practitioner. It's a peachy schoolhouse together with the members of the maths faculty are actually lovely together with thence if y'all alive inwards Surrey or South London together with y'all fancy trying something new, do brand it touch. I'm happy to respond whatever questions if you're unsure virtually applying - electronic mail me at resourceaholic@gmail.com.

I promise to come across lots of y'all at #mathsconf9 inwards Bristol side yesteryear side month. There are closed to fantastic workshops lined up. Most people are staying at the Travel Lodge - at that topographic point volition go a gratuitous shuttle autobus from the hotel to the conference on the Sabbatum morning. If you're staying over, bring together us for drinks on the Fri night! Details to follow.

I'll exit y'all with this lovely map of mathematics by @DominicWalliman - give thank y'all you to @Mathematical_A for sharing this.

Multiple Alternative Questions

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) bring ever been pop inward maths inward roughly parts of the world. In recent years they bring gained popularity inward England in addition to Wales, in addition to are similar a shot usually used every bit a diagnostic tool inward the classroom. MCQs are also similar a shot a commutation characteristic of AQA's GCSE papers.

Some teachers bring been scream for where they tin discovery MCQs that are aligned amongst our curriculum. I've listed roughly sources below - if y'all bring anything to add, delight email me.

1. Foundation in addition to Higher GCSE Multiple Choice Questions by Topic
Suitable for Key Stage three in addition to 4.
I institute these multiple choice quizzes at function - I believe they were written past times Julie Bolter, likely to accompany a textbook. There are quizzes for a seat out of topics including sequences, measure shape in addition to coordinates.

2. Foundation in addition to Higher GCSE Multiple Choice Revision Questions
Suitable for Key Stage three in addition to 4.
There's a large selection of multiple choice questions here, both inward PowerPoint in addition to Word. The topics are mixed then these would move useful for examination revision or retrieval practice. Thanks to Mitesh Patel for sending me these. We don't know the master copy source then delight tweet or e-mail me if y'all know.

3. Diagnostic Questions
Suitable for Key Stages ane - 5.
This fantastic website from Craig Barton has a huge hit of multiple choice questions, contributed past times users. You tin chop-chop do quizzes for purpose amongst mini-whiteboards, voting cards or Plickers. The most powerful seem of this website is the chance to laid students quizzes online - this allows teachers to read explanations in addition to thence analyse students' thinking.

It's worth checking out the ready made quiz collections including quizzes from White Rose, UKMT, Edexcel, AQA in addition to OCR.

Grace Horne, who is Head of Maths at Kettering Science Academy, has sent me her amazing set of multiple choice quizzes. She's made 85 consistently formatted quizzes, each containing 5 questions drawn from diagnosticquestions.com. Quizzes are categorised past times topic in addition to GCSE tier. Answers are provided. This is a really helpful resource! Huge thank y'all to Grace for sharing this.

4. SQA
Suitable for Key Stage 5.

The Scottish Qualifications Authority used to set Objective Tests for Higher Mathematics. These comprise lovely questions for Year 12 in addition to 13, roofing topics such every bit calculus, trigonometry, sequences, vectors in addition to the equation of a circle. Thanks to Helen Dey for telling me most these. Thanks also to @mrallanmaths for sharing this editable banking concern of Objective Test questions.

5. Integral

Suitable for Key Stage 5.
MEI provides a slap-up selection of multiple choice tests for H5N1 score Maths in addition to Further Maths on Integral (school login required). The representative below is from a Normal Distribution assessment for Edexcel S1.

6. 30 Number Starters
Suitable for Key Stage three in addition to 4.
Ben Cooper (@bcoops_online) on TES provides a PowerPoint of 30 multiple choice quizzes for diverse seat out topics including fractions, decimals in addition to percentages. 

7. Functional MCQs
Suitable for Key Stage ii in addition to 3.
Thanks to Jon Treby for this laid of Functional Multiple Choice Questions. They are separate past times topic in addition to all questions are contextual.

8. Foundation of Advanced Mathematics 

Suitable for Key Stage 4.

Stuart Price (@sxpmaths) wrote a post most using multiple choice questions from Foundation of Advanced Mathematics exams for Year 10 revision competitions. There's a seat out of past times papers to depict questions from - most of the topics are from GCSE in addition to the questions are suitable for extension inward Year 10 in addition to 11.

There's lots to explore here! If I've missed anything, delight e-mail it to resourceaholic@gmail.com. Thank you!

Some Things I've Tried

The in conclusion 8 weeks have got been the busiest I've e'er experienced. There's been lots of factors at play to brand this current specially exhausting, both at schoolhouse as well as at abode - it doesn't assist that my 17 calendar month former immature adult woman nonetheless doesn't slumber at night! H5N1 interruption is much needed. Half term also provides a practiced chance to reverberate on roughly novel things I've tried this term.

Source: The Guardian/ Ros Asquith

1. Famous Five
This is an thought from Gems 35. It plant similar this:

1. Before each Year 10 lesson, I write the words 'Famous Five' on the board.
2. As my students brand it I have got a starter activity ready for them. 
3. Under the championship Famous Five, I write the names of the first of all v students to settle downward as well as start working. They LOVE existence on this list! It's getting harder to select the Famous Five because they've all responded thus good to this.
4. At the destination of the lesson I say, "If you're on today's Famous Five listing you lot tin larn out now, the remainder of you lot pack upwards as well as stand upwards behind your chairs quietly". The Famous Five dash out of the room.

The funny affair is that roughly of these students have got registration inward the same room directly after my lesson, thus they have got nowhere to rush off to! They simply similar the glory of existence Famous Five. 

This has been a actually successful inaugural to minimise faff at the outset of my lessons. Also, because it's a fleck dissimilar to what they're used to, it has helped me construct a practiced human relationship alongside this class. Huge thank you lot to Emma Mccrea for sharing the thought - hit read her original post to encounter how it plant for her.

2. Assessment 

I've been doing variety of sources and keep the format consistent - each quiz is xv minutes long as well as consists of 12 multiple pick questions.

These quizzes have got chop-chop conk an established routine. Most students have got total payoff of the 'open book' dominion - during the examine I encounter them looking dorsum through their exercise books at notes as well as examples. This encourages practiced complaint taking during lessons.

I degree the quizzes A, B or Not Yet (inspired past times this post from Sarah Hagan). If a educatee receives a 'Not Yet' as well as thus they haven't demonstrating sufficient agreement of the theme thus they have got to have got roughly other quiz after schoolhouse the next week. Of class at that spot has to hold upwards remedial activeness betwixt receiving a 'Not Yet' as well as resitting the quiz - these students either encounter me for assist after lessons, or I ship them links to Corbett Maths or Hegarty Maths videos.

My first of all quiz resulted inward xiii Not Yets as well as entirely 8 As. H5N1 worrying disclose of students couldn't multiply decimals thus I taught the theme to the whole cast in ane trial again using a dissimilar approach. The results were much improved inward the retake.

These quizzes entirely have got virtually xxx minutes to score - inward those xxx minutes I gain a valuable insight into my students' understanding. I promise that these regular depression stakes quizzes volition encourage my students to rest focused, have got practiced notes as well as seek support. Do read Kris Boulton's post 'How tests learn as well as motivate' which inspired me to start doing these quizzes. So far it's been a slap-up success.

3. Modelling Good Work 

Every classroom inward my subdivision has a visualiser. Unfortunately none of them seem to travel (probably due to recent software updates) thus this foiled my invention to utilise visualisers this twelvemonth to demo examples of educatee work. Instead, I have got photos of practiced travel piece I'm marking. There's no indicate inward telling students that they should laid their travel out amend without giving examples.

I've been trying this out alongside my Year 12 class. They're studying S1 as well as we've been working on summarising information (eg hateful as well as criterion divergence of continuous data). It's slowly to brand accuracy slips inward these calculations as well as students who neglect to demo clear workings inward exams could destination upwards scoring no method marks.

The painting demo below is an instance of a student's respond to a criterion divergence enquiry - I showed this photograph to the cast when I returned their most recent homework. Few students inward this cast had received total marks for this question.

It's non perfect, but this educatee has definitely got the correct idea. He's drawn out the whole tabular array clearly as well as written downward the formula for criterion deviation. He's shown intermediate steps as well as his workings are really slowly to follow. If entirely all my students laid their travel out similar this - the worst examples were those who tried to squelch their workings into the margin of the enquiry newspaper ('Fermat-style' workings). I promise that past times showing practiced examples to the class, the character of travel volition improve. I'll written report dorsum on this subsequently inward the year!

4. Communication
At my previous schoolhouse the entirely straight communication I had alongside parents was on Parents Evening. I never called, emailed or met alongside parents. At my novel schoolhouse every instructor recognises the importance of engaging parents as well as this is done really effectively across the school. I decided to engage the parents of my Year 10 students past times means of an introductory electronic mail at the start of term, followed past times half-termly newsletters. Here's my first of all newsletter:

I've included an update on what we've been studying, praise for students who've done specially well, information virtually membership of the Society of Young Mathematicians and more.

I'd been planning to hit a newsletter similar this for years thus I'm glad I finally did it. I found this MathedUp post encouraging - it includes a lovely instance of a newsletter produced past times Mo Ladak which is worth a look.

As Jim Riley (@tutor2u) said when I shared my newsletter on Twitter, "Most parents mightiness non tending - but if simply ane or 2 do, it is all worthwhile".

So that's it - 4 ideas that seem to hold upwards working well. I'll weblog in ane trial again subsequently this twelvemonth to update you lot on whether these initiatives conk along to hold upwards effective. Thanks for reading!