5 Maths Gems #89

Welcome to my 89^th gems post. This is where I portion closed to of the latest news, ideas too resources for maths teachers.

1. Boss Maths
BossMaths.com is a corking maths website that I haven't seen before. It has over 200 lessons matched to GCSE specification references, each amongst examples, escalating do exercises, misconceptions, too exam-style problems. Some topics besides accept worked trial videos. There's loads of corking materials here.

All of this content is free. Teachers tin easily role the exercises too examples inward their lessons. I tin imagine this website mightiness besides last helpful if your students accept tablets or laptops inward their lessons equally they tin access the content straight without a login.

Here's an trial of an SSDD agency chore for percentages.

And here's an trial of a challenge enquiry from the topic 'arcs too sectors of circles'.

And here's an trial of an exercise from 'Algebraic manipulation involving surds too fractions'.

For closed to of the novel GCSE topics including Systematic Listing, Growth too Decay, Equation of a Circle, Iteration too Inverse Functions, it's actually helpful to accept a laid of examples, exercises too challenge problems all inward ane place. I'll add together these to my resources libraries.

The creators of BossMaths.com are going to brand extra premium features available on subscription. This includes worksheets, activities too answers.

2. Year 12 Revision
My Year 12 mathematicians accept internal halt of twelvemonth exams inward June. To tending them railroad train I'll last using the 'Question Countdown' revision resources from CrashMaths. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 laid of 4 revision questions was published each twenty-four hr catamenia inward the 10 days preceding this year's AS exams, too then that's twoscore revision questions gear upward to use.

Also, creator of novel website Gems 86 for to a greater extent than of his corking puzzles.

Update

I produced a novel laid of resources for breakfast revision for the non reckoner GCSE examine - if you lot missed them, you lot tin download them here. I promise to brand reckoner versions over one-half term. I accept continued to add together novel resources to my GCSE revision post too then make banking concern check it out if you're seeing Year eleven in ane trial to a greater extent than this year.

I'll last doing a keynote presentation on Th fifth July at the BBO Maths Hub Secondary Conference inward High Wycombe. Bookings are forthwith open. I volition besides last speaking at #mathsconf15 inward Manchester too the JustMaths Conference at Alton Towers. I promise to encounter lots of you lot at these events - make say hello! For a total listing of summertime term events, encounter my conferences page.

I lately bought an 'absolutely' awesome novel maths t shirt. Loads of people asked me where I got it too then I persuasion I should portion that here: banking concern check out spreadshirt.co.uk for a corking make of proficient character maths stuff.

I honey my novel maths t shirt! pic.twitter.com/3Vc4OsPxUX

— Jo Morgan (@mathsjem) 11 May 2018

If you lot haven't seen it yet, make read Ben Orlin's post service 'The State of Being Stuck'. It's fantastic.

Good luck amongst the residue of examine season! And happy one-half term.

5 Maths Gems #90

Welcome to my 90^th gems post. This is where I part unopen to of the latest news, ideas too resources for maths teachers.

1. Probability Task
Thanks to John Rowe (@MrJohnRowe) for sharing this challenging probability puzzle. If you lot similar this too hence you'll honour similar tasks for a broad make of topics on the fantastic website openmiddle.com which I've blogged close before.

2. Exam Wrapper
Thanks to Alice Leung (@aliceleung) for sharing an exam wrapper for students to consummate later on an assessment. I similar it that students are asked to reverberate on whether they did sufficient grooming for the exam.

 3. Number Properties Puzzle

Here's a groovy issue puzzle from @OCR_Maths.

4. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Level

If your Year 12s bring internal exams coming up, you lot mightiness honour my revision quizzes for pure too statistics helpful. I've told my students to impress off a charge of these too essay themselves at habitation until they larn everything right. The statistics quiz has a huge issue of definitions! 

There was a helpful give-and-take close Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marking taster lessons on Twitter this week, initiated past times Adam Creen (@adamcreen). You tin read the total thread here. I bring industrial plant life inwards the past times that Pascal too Binomial works well. I've besides used Susan Wall's lovely 'Find the coordinates' business successfully equally a starter activity inwards Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marking taster lessons.

5. Euclid

Thanks to @MrsMathematica for sharing this video close Euclid - I enjoyed watching this.

Also banking concern fit out The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - Squaring the Circle and The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - The Great Quest.

Update

In representative you lot missed it, I late wrote a dependent champaign cognition post service close algebraic highest mutual element too lowest mutual multiple. Writing this made me rethink my approach to teaching this topic. 

I besides published 3 sets of breakfast warm upwardly resources for both Higher too Foundation GCSE. It's been lovely to encounter hence many schools using these to calm nerves too warm upwardly brains on the morn of exams.

I besides published a fix of Year 3 topics inwards depth packs created past times Nikki Martin - delight part these amongst principal colleagues.

There bring been a issue of practiced maths teaching weblog posts lately that are worth reading, including:

• 'A Mastery Curriculum inwards Scotland - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Review of Year 2' by Chris McGrane‏ (@ChrisMcGrane84)
• 'Simultaneous equations: an insight from playing amongst technology' past times Tom Button (@mathstechnology)

I'm looking frontward to presenting at post close this concluding year.

If you're coming to the conference, impress a re-create of my #mathsconf15 bingo inwards advance too play along on the day.

Finally, did you lot encounter these awesome biscuits made past times Ella Dickson (@elladickson) for her Year xiii students? Amazing!

5 Maths Gems #92

Welcome to my 92^nd gems post. This is where I part closed to of the latest news, ideas as well as resources for maths teachers.

The summertime holidays are hither - hurrah! Time to relax, get got fun as well as allow our mental as well as physical wellness recover earlier nosotros acquire dorsum for fresh starts amongst novel classes inwards September.

1. Equivalent Ratios
I like this equivalent ratios activity from Richard Tock (@ticktockmaths). Below is an extract showing closed to of the ratios that must live simplified as well as grouped. These get got been carefully chosen to break misconceptions.

Henk Reuling‏ (@HenkReuling) shared an interactive version of a similar activeness here.

2. Probability Problems

Thanks to Jason Steele‏ (@steelemaths) for sharing a nice probability task. Here students get got to write numbers on the spinners to run across the stated conditions.

Do banking concern tally out Jason's other resources also - he lately shared a dainty laid of questions on angles as well as ratio.

3. Real-Life Graphs
MathsPad has a brilliant laid of interactive resources which are swell for classroom demonstrations. Their latest interactive tool for subscribers demonstrates real-life graphs based on filling containers amongst liquid at a constant rate. There's an accompanying worksheet too.

4. Open Middle Angles

Here's closed to other fantastic Open Middle problem from John Rowe (@MrJohnRowe):

5. Symmetry Display
Thanks to David Morse (@Maths4Everyone) for sharing a novel alphabet symmetry display. This powerfulness live useful for making 'Welcome to the Maths Department' signs.

If yous desire to brighten upward a maths corridor or classroom, yous volition discovery a large collection of maths displays here.

Update
Here are a few things yous powerfulness get got missed:

• My most recent post was nigh surds as well as how the teaching of the theme has changed over the years.
• If you're launching Hegarty Maths inwards September, yous powerfulness discovery Ben Gordon's (@mathsmrgordon) launch PowerPoint helpful.
• If you're setting upward a grouping or private intervention amongst Key Stage 3 students side past times side year, or if you're a private tutor taking on a novel tutee, yous powerfulness discovery this assessment helpful for identifying topics to focus on.
• If you're teaching Year 12 inwards September, banking concern tally out my entry assessment as well as first lesson slides.
• In instance yous missed it, produce banking concern tally out the lovely weblog postal service "Not As Complicated As It Looks…" past times Mr Rowlandson (@Mr_Rowlandson).
• I had a fantastic fourth dimension amongst 3 of my Year vii students at the London Rock Wrangle a twosome of weeks ago. We didn't win the helicopter ride, precisely nosotros came 6th out of 43 schools overall which was awesome. If your schoolhouse doesn't already role Times Tables Rock Stars, banking concern tally it out.
• If yous get got fourth dimension over summer, produce psyche to Craig Barton's latest podcast which features 55 individuals answering the inquiry “what get got yous learned this year?”.
• I actually enjoyed taking business office inwards The Aperiodical's The Big Internet Math Off over the lastly few weeks. I was honoured to live invited to accept part. I wrote 2 pieces for the contest - 1 on hexaflexagons as well as 1 on Klein bottles. I was knocked out inwards the minute circular past times Matt Parker! Do await out for the concluding on 24th July.
• Thanks to David Faram (@dagsmaths) for showing me the maths pedagogy inquiry pages from the University of East Anglia which are total of interesting reads for maths teachers. Have a await at the tasks here and here and the pupil responses.
• Congratulations to Jemma Sherwood on the publication of her fantabulous novel majority "How to Enhance Your Mathematics Subject Knowledge". 

It’s arrived today 💃 @oxfordedmaths, consummate amongst back-cover endorsement from none other than @mathsjem 👊 pic.twitter.com/wKlfXiHkON

— Jemma Sherwood (@jemmaths) 20 July 2018

Finally, a quick outcry out to the wonderful Glyn maths teachers who joined me for the best leaving produce ever! We did bottomless brunch, an escape room, pedalos inwards Battersea Park as well as burgers inwards Clapham. What a swell day! It was my showtime e'er escape room as well as I loved it as well as thence much I forthwith call upward to crusade every escape room inwards London! Thank yous to everyone on Twitter who recommended it.

I get got a few things to operate on over summer, precisely non a huge amount equally I actually demand a rest! I volition conk along my one-time textbook inquiry as well as my topics inwards depth project. I project design to update my resources libraries - inwards particular, I demand to totally reorganise my Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 score libraries. I also demand to update my conference listings. But earlier I produce whatever of that, I'm off on vacation amongst my daughters... showtime stop, Cadbury World.

I'll travel out yous amongst this dainty piddling puzzle from MathsPad's latest measure shape resource.

Have a swell summer!

5 Maths Gems #89

Welcome to my 89^th gems post. This is where I portion closed to of the latest news, ideas too resources for maths teachers.

1. Boss Maths
BossMaths.com is a corking maths website that I haven't seen before. It has over 200 lessons matched to GCSE specification references, each amongst examples, escalating do exercises, misconceptions, too exam-style problems. Some topics besides accept worked trial videos. There's loads of corking materials here.

All of this content is free. Teachers tin easily role the exercises too examples inward their lessons. I tin imagine this website mightiness besides last helpful if your students accept tablets or laptops inward their lessons equally they tin access the content straight without a login.

Here's an trial of an SSDD agency chore for percentages.

And here's an trial of a challenge enquiry from the topic 'arcs too sectors of circles'.

And here's an trial of an exercise from 'Algebraic manipulation involving surds too fractions'.

For closed to of the novel GCSE topics including Systematic Listing, Growth too Decay, Equation of a Circle, Iteration too Inverse Functions, it's actually helpful to accept a laid of examples, exercises too challenge problems all inward ane place. I'll add together these to my resources libraries.

The creators of BossMaths.com are going to brand extra premium features available on subscription. This includes worksheets, activities too answers.

2. Year 12 Revision
My Year 12 mathematicians accept internal halt of twelvemonth exams inward June. To tending them railroad train I'll last using the 'Question Countdown' revision resources from CrashMaths. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 laid of 4 revision questions was published each twenty-four hr catamenia inward the 10 days preceding this year's AS exams, too then that's twoscore revision questions gear upward to use.

Also, creator of novel website Gems 86 for to a greater extent than of his corking puzzles.

Update

I produced a novel laid of resources for breakfast revision for the non reckoner GCSE examine - if you lot missed them, you lot tin download them here. I promise to brand reckoner versions over one-half term. I accept continued to add together novel resources to my GCSE revision post too then make banking concern check it out if you're seeing Year eleven in ane trial to a greater extent than this year.

I'll last doing a keynote presentation on Th fifth July at the BBO Maths Hub Secondary Conference inward High Wycombe. Bookings are forthwith open. I volition besides last speaking at #mathsconf15 inward Manchester too the JustMaths Conference at Alton Towers. I promise to encounter lots of you lot at these events - make say hello! For a total listing of summertime term events, encounter my conferences page.

I lately bought an 'absolutely' awesome novel maths t shirt. Loads of people asked me where I got it too then I persuasion I should portion that here: banking concern check out spreadshirt.co.uk for a corking make of proficient character maths stuff.

I honey my novel maths t shirt! pic.twitter.com/3Vc4OsPxUX

— Jo Morgan (@mathsjem) 11 May 2018

If you lot haven't seen it yet, make read Ben Orlin's post service 'The State of Being Stuck'. It's fantastic.

Good luck amongst the residue of examine season! And happy one-half term.

5 Maths Gems #90

Welcome to my 90^th gems post. This is where I part unopen to of the latest news, ideas too resources for maths teachers.

1. Probability Task
Thanks to John Rowe (@MrJohnRowe) for sharing this challenging probability puzzle. If you lot similar this too hence you'll honour similar tasks for a broad make of topics on the fantastic website openmiddle.com which I've blogged close before.

2. Exam Wrapper
Thanks to Alice Leung (@aliceleung) for sharing an exam wrapper for students to consummate later on an assessment. I similar it that students are asked to reverberate on whether they did sufficient grooming for the exam.

 3. Number Properties Puzzle

Here's a groovy issue puzzle from @OCR_Maths.

4. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Level

If your Year 12s bring internal exams coming up, you lot mightiness honour my revision quizzes for pure too statistics helpful. I've told my students to impress off a charge of these too essay themselves at habitation until they larn everything right. The statistics quiz has a huge issue of definitions! 

There was a helpful give-and-take close Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marking taster lessons on Twitter this week, initiated past times Adam Creen (@adamcreen). You tin read the total thread here. I bring industrial plant life inwards the past times that Pascal too Binomial works well. I've besides used Susan Wall's lovely 'Find the coordinates' business successfully equally a starter activity inwards Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marking taster lessons.

5. Euclid

Thanks to @MrsMathematica for sharing this video close Euclid - I enjoyed watching this.

Also banking concern fit out The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - Squaring the Circle and The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - The Great Quest.

Update

In representative you lot missed it, I late wrote a dependent champaign cognition post service close algebraic highest mutual element too lowest mutual multiple. Writing this made me rethink my approach to teaching this topic. 

I besides published 3 sets of breakfast warm upwardly resources for both Higher too Foundation GCSE. It's been lovely to encounter hence many schools using these to calm nerves too warm upwardly brains on the morn of exams.

I besides published a fix of Year 3 topics inwards depth packs created past times Nikki Martin - delight part these amongst principal colleagues.

There bring been a issue of practiced maths teaching weblog posts lately that are worth reading, including:

• 'A Mastery Curriculum inwards Scotland - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Review of Year 2' by Chris McGrane‏ (@ChrisMcGrane84)
• 'Simultaneous equations: an insight from playing amongst technology' past times Tom Button (@mathstechnology)

I'm looking frontward to presenting at post close this concluding year.

If you're coming to the conference, impress a re-create of my #mathsconf15 bingo inwards advance too play along on the day.

Finally, did you lot encounter these awesome biscuits made past times Ella Dickson (@elladickson) for her Year xiii students? Amazing!

5 Maths Gems #92

Welcome to my 92^nd gems post. This is where I part closed to of the latest news, ideas as well as resources for maths teachers.

The summertime holidays are hither - hurrah! Time to relax, get got fun as well as allow our mental as well as physical wellness recover earlier nosotros acquire dorsum for fresh starts amongst novel classes inwards September.

1. Equivalent Ratios
I like this equivalent ratios activity from Richard Tock (@ticktockmaths). Below is an extract showing closed to of the ratios that must live simplified as well as grouped. These get got been carefully chosen to break misconceptions.

Henk Reuling‏ (@HenkReuling) shared an interactive version of a similar activeness here.

2. Probability Problems

Thanks to Jason Steele‏ (@steelemaths) for sharing a nice probability task. Here students get got to write numbers on the spinners to run across the stated conditions.

Do banking concern tally out Jason's other resources also - he lately shared a dainty laid of questions on angles as well as ratio.

3. Real-Life Graphs
MathsPad has a brilliant laid of interactive resources which are swell for classroom demonstrations. Their latest interactive tool for subscribers demonstrates real-life graphs based on filling containers amongst liquid at a constant rate. There's an accompanying worksheet too.

4. Open Middle Angles

Here's closed to other fantastic Open Middle problem from John Rowe (@MrJohnRowe):

5. Symmetry Display
Thanks to David Morse (@Maths4Everyone) for sharing a novel alphabet symmetry display. This powerfulness live useful for making 'Welcome to the Maths Department' signs.

If yous desire to brighten upward a maths corridor or classroom, yous volition discovery a large collection of maths displays here.

Update
Here are a few things yous powerfulness get got missed:

• My most recent post was nigh surds as well as how the teaching of the theme has changed over the years.
• If you're launching Hegarty Maths inwards September, yous powerfulness discovery Ben Gordon's (@mathsmrgordon) launch PowerPoint helpful.
• If you're setting upward a grouping or private intervention amongst Key Stage 3 students side past times side year, or if you're a private tutor taking on a novel tutee, yous powerfulness discovery this assessment helpful for identifying topics to focus on.
• If you're teaching Year 12 inwards September, banking concern tally out my entry assessment as well as first lesson slides.
• In instance yous missed it, produce banking concern tally out the lovely weblog postal service "Not As Complicated As It Looks…" past times Mr Rowlandson (@Mr_Rowlandson).
• I had a fantastic fourth dimension amongst 3 of my Year vii students at the London Rock Wrangle a twosome of weeks ago. We didn't win the helicopter ride, precisely nosotros came 6th out of 43 schools overall which was awesome. If your schoolhouse doesn't already role Times Tables Rock Stars, banking concern tally it out.
• If yous get got fourth dimension over summer, produce psyche to Craig Barton's latest podcast which features 55 individuals answering the inquiry “what get got yous learned this year?”.
• I actually enjoyed taking business office inwards The Aperiodical's The Big Internet Math Off over the lastly few weeks. I was honoured to live invited to accept part. I wrote 2 pieces for the contest - 1 on hexaflexagons as well as 1 on Klein bottles. I was knocked out inwards the minute circular past times Matt Parker! Do await out for the concluding on 24th July.
• Thanks to David Faram (@dagsmaths) for showing me the maths pedagogy inquiry pages from the University of East Anglia which are total of interesting reads for maths teachers. Have a await at the tasks here and here and the pupil responses.
• Congratulations to Jemma Sherwood on the publication of her fantabulous novel majority "How to Enhance Your Mathematics Subject Knowledge". 

It’s arrived today 💃 @oxfordedmaths, consummate amongst back-cover endorsement from none other than @mathsjem 👊 pic.twitter.com/wKlfXiHkON

— Jemma Sherwood (@jemmaths) 20 July 2018

Finally, a quick outcry out to the wonderful Glyn maths teachers who joined me for the best leaving produce ever! We did bottomless brunch, an escape room, pedalos inwards Battersea Park as well as burgers inwards Clapham. What a swell day! It was my showtime e'er escape room as well as I loved it as well as thence much I forthwith call upward to crusade every escape room inwards London! Thank yous to everyone on Twitter who recommended it.

I get got a few things to operate on over summer, precisely non a huge amount equally I actually demand a rest! I volition conk along my one-time textbook inquiry as well as my topics inwards depth project. I project design to update my resources libraries - inwards particular, I demand to totally reorganise my Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 score libraries. I also demand to update my conference listings. But earlier I produce whatever of that, I'm off on vacation amongst my daughters... showtime stop, Cadbury World.

I'll travel out yous amongst this dainty piddling puzzle from MathsPad's latest measure shape resource.

Have a swell summer!