Resources, musings & lesson ideas for teaching, learning & enjoying maths.
You know those people that seem to post all the time on Twitter? I’ve discovered their secret – for me, it was a bit of a necessity if I’m going to manage the #summerblogchallenge, as I got married yesterday and currently have a houseful of people continuing the celebrations until at least Saturday**. It’s a handy little site …
How to bend space and time – Twuffer Read More »
I’ll admit to having to cheat a little bit on this challenge; this post is one of the few I had to write ahead of time and schedule to post later. I have a good excuse – I’m getting married today, and I imagine that, even though my fiance is very understanding about the amount …
Something old, something new… Read More »
Starters can be a contentious issue; the term “starter” is a hangover from the days of three-part lessons in bite-size chunks, which seem to have fallen from vogue now. However, they are still a key part of my teaching, and today’s SBPC looks at why. In my mind, my lesson “starters” fall into three categories, …
And your starter for ten… Read More »
It’s been a while since I last did a Pick of Twitter, which is personally quite annoying because it’s my only way of chronicling all the good stuff I see on there – I’m going to try and get back into the habit on Sundays from now on! @mjfenton: A lovely list of quotes from teachers explaining …
Pick of Twitter 26/07/15 Read More »
I decided that a resource post was long overdue for the #summerblogchallenge, so I thought I’d post one of my favourite lessons. I put this together after discovering the fantastic Gapminder website a couple of years ago, and it’s designed to provide a nice real-life link for exponential growth.This lesson looks at two different scenarios. It starts with …
Exponential growth and the Chessboard Problem Read More »
…With jam in! Badumdum-tshh… Not sure if that really works, but I enjoyed my first Maths Jam so much last night that I thought it would make a great topic for my SBPC post today. If you don’t know about Maths Jam (I didn’t until Beth (@MissBLilley) invited me along at the last maths conference), it’s a …
How does Bob Marley like his maths? Read More »
Just a quick post today with a few useful goodies for the new Maths GCSE – these are all links I’ve found useful in planning and resourcing our schemes of work. From the exam boards: DfE – Subject content and assessment objectives: Learning outcomes and content coverage for the new GCSE from the DfE. GCSE …
Planning for GCSE 2015 Read More »
Bit of a random topic for my third SBPC, but bear with me. Over the weekend, my fiance dragged me to watch Jurassic World; I wasn’t keen, as I missed the Jurassic Park hype when I was younger, and don’t really enjoy action films. Since watching Jurassic World, we went back and watched three episodes …
Logarithmic thinking, evolution and dinosaurs Read More »
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I’ve had very little time lately to work on my website and write blog posts; it’s a shame because I love doing both. Now that the seven-week summer holiday has arrived (I’m still not sure where that extra week has come from), and inspired by Dr Bennison’s “blog post …
51 Days of Summer, the blogpost challenge and a bit of self-assessment Read More »
In answer to this tweet… definitely not me! Of the three of us who actually attended, both Jo and Amir beat me to posting their blogs, which gives me the dubious honour of third place. Travelling all the way to London for this conference was definitely worth it, but really took it out of me, …