Mental squares
Thank you, Internet, for wasting my evening. I don't know how I found this on…
Effective revision (COM2015)
The first session I attended at Celebration of Maths 2015 was titled "Effective Revision" and…
The Lottery, lemmings and primes
I have to admit, I was flagging by this point in the afternoon. A combination…
Bar modelling – reflections on Celebration of Maths 2015
I've been using bar modelling quite extensively in my teaching since being involved with the…
We’re going on a bar hunt
Excuse the pun, I'm just quite excited about the Celebration of Maths event tomorrow. Due to the fact that I'm going to the bar modelling session tomorrow (and that I'm a geek who loves doing Maths on a Friday night), I decided to go on a bar modelling hunt using the Foundation paper 1 from the Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Sample Assessment materials.
Flash Maths
Just a quick post to say I've just found an excellent site for quick starters…
Teaching improper fractions and mixed numbers
Having taught this to nearly all of my KS3 groups at some point in the…
Which is bigger?
Last year, I attended the best CPD of my teaching career. It was a year-long…
Growing squares
This investigation is great for getting pupils to “spot” square number patterns – it’s particularly…
Square differences
Pupils explore which numbers can be written as the difference of two square numbers; a nice way to practise calculating with square numbers, but also encourages them to pattern-spot at the same time.