Proportional reasoning on Edexcel June 2015 P1
I've written quite a few posts recently about using ratio tables extensively in my teaching for proportional…
Exploring proportional reasoning
Tonight's post is another quick one about using ratio tables, this time for solving proportional…
Fraction and percentage equivalence using ratio tables
It seems that two years of shameless use of ratio tables have finally paid off;…
From bar modelling to ratio tables – tidying up percentages
It's no secret that I'm a big fan of bar modelling to get pupils to…
Introducing fraction arithmetic (2)
This is part of a series of blogs on my favourite way to teach adding…
Introducing fraction arithmetic (1)
The lesson(s) detailed below have been absolutely groundbreaking for me in terms of teaching adding…
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.
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…