Resources, musings & lesson ideas for teaching, learning & enjoying maths.
Session 2 at #MathsConf7 was delivered by Christine Andrews, Andrew Taylor and Gary Wing, and looked at the developments and questions about the new Maths A Level for AQA. This blog is just my interpretation of their workshop, and shouldn’t be taken as gospel, although I’ve tried to reproduce accurately what was said. It’s also …
#mathsconf7 Session 2 – 10 things you should know about the new Maths A Level Read More »
Peter Mattock’s session at #mathsconf5 (Concrete Approaches to Abstract Mathematics) was great and gave me a lot of takeaways, so signing up for this one as my first session seemed like a no-brainer. I wasn’t disappointed; this time, Peter looked in depth at fifteen topics that can lead to misleading assumptions by pupils, and challenged us to …
#mathsconf7 Session 1 – Avoiding misleading assumptions Read More »
As I promised my first #mathsconf7 blog before the end of Monday, I thought I’d better crack on, which means turning pages of tiny scribbled notes on an old Osiris pad into something a little more coherent. Much like @taylorda01, I’ve spent a lot of time in Leeds over the last decade (three years of university, …
#mathsconf7: A round-up and Mike Askew’s keynote Read More »
While the Internet is possibly the best thing that’s happened to teaching and education in the last thirty years (think TES resources, Twitter, independent sites, quick communication channels), it also comes with a minefield of copyright issues. A couple of weeks before I left my last job, an email went round to all staff reminding …
Top 5 for public domain images Read More »
As per instruction, I am attempting to finish strong, and I had another really interesting lesson with Year 7 using the NRich Cuisenaire environment today, so I thought I’d go out in style with that. Last Tuesday we did plenty of work with whole numbers and algebraic notation, and I was really keen to explore some fractions with …
Fractions with Cuisenaire rods Read More »
I discovered “One Good Thing” when I hit the wall during my #summerblogchallenge this year and I’m in the same position today, so I thought I’d revisit. I’ve tried and tried but writer’s block has had me good and proper for the last few days. I have, however, had a proper good chill day today, so limiting …
During revision on standard units with Year 9 this week, we dealt with the typical confusions between metric and Imperial – they’re fairly happy with metres and centimetres, but a few are also convinced that inches and feet are too, possibly because they’re still in such common usage.A question that one pupil had was about …
Exploring decimal time Read More »
So the restaurant I’m at has red and green cards, but no amber… Yeah, tonight’s is a bit of a placeholder post, as I’ve been busy, followed by asleep (post-half term lurgy), followed by actually out of the house for a friend’s birthday meal.Sometimes switching off is the best thing to do! I’ll make the …
As we’ve got two squares in today’s date, I thought I’d go for a square themed post. Also I’ve just realised that this year contains 25/04/16, and 25/09/16, both even better excuses for a lesson on square numbers. These are all great investigations/rich problems with plenty of practice working with square numbers – a little …
Five ideas for square numbers Read More »
Putting the kettle on.Reading random education news articles, getting cross and closing them halfway through.Organising several appointments with estate agents, solicitors and dentists.Checking my emails.Ringing an old colleague for a chat.Actually doing some washing up even though we still have clean plates.Scrolling through the #mathschat hashtag on Twitter.Typing the first few words of a blog, …
This evening, I have mostly been… Read More »