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Resources, musings & lesson ideas for teaching, learning & enjoying maths.

#mathstlp Round-up (13th November)

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World Philosophy Day 60 Second Adventures in Thought, particularly Hilbert’s Hotel (Open University) Monty Hall problem (suggestion from @mathsteacher09) Zeno’s paradox (suggestion from @CatherineFarmar and video from Numberphile) Does 0.999… equal 1? (suggestion from @EmmaCookeBooks and video from Brilliant.org) Other suggestons included: Do numbers exist? Was maths discovered or created? Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorem. First GCSE …

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Expanding single brackets using algebra tiles

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Using algebra tiles to model expanding single brackets is really useful because learners can physically count out the required number of groups. There’s something fairly intuitive about brackets representing multiplication when you see the contents of the bracket represented as tiles rather than just algebraic terms.  Introducing expanding brackets using algebra tiles So to start …

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Solving linear equations using algebra tiles

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First published March 2015, last updated October 2022 By the time I teach linear equations, I’ve already used algebra tiles quite a lot with learners to create algebraic expressions. After working through one-step equations and ensuring learners understand the processes involved (rather than just solving “by eye”), I move on to simple two-step linear equations.  If learners …

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MathsConf30

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I attended MathsConf30 in Manchester this weekend, organised by Complete Maths/La Salle Education. MathsConfs are a fantastic day out and always really reinvigorating, and this one didn’t disappoint.

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#MathsConf28

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Last Saturday I finally managed to get myself to a Complete Maths conference for the first time in about four years – looking back at my previous blogs, the last one was #MathsConf13 in 2017 and I’d just gone on maternity leave. I was really excited about this one; there’s nothing quite like a day …

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