MathsConf30
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.
Conferences
#MathsConf28
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 …
#mathsconf13
#MathsConf13 took place last Saturday, and as usual, was another fantastic day of cheap CPD. Sadly, I missed the London conference in the summer, so I was really looking forward to this one. It definitely didn’t disappoint, despite being a bit of a struggle at nearly 8 months pregnant! One highlight of the day was …
#mathsconf7 Session 2 – 10 things you should know about the new Maths A Level
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 …
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#mathsconf7 Session 1 – Avoiding misleading assumptions
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 …
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#mathsconf7: A round-up and Mike Askew’s keynote
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, …
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Design matters (a #mathsconf5 blog)
This picture completely mystified my Year 10 class this week… To put things into context, we were working on a standard set of simple rearrangement (for them) of formulae, with absolutely no real-life context (contrived or otherwise) mentioned in the questions. The textbook authors appeared to have just plonked an image of a scary-looking skeleton (reminds …
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#mathsconf5
This is likely to be a short-ish blog, with more detailed posts about the really good bits later this week. I don’t know if it’s just me, but spending seven hours in a hot leisure centre has given me the worst headache, and I really want to be curling up on the sofa with a …
How does Bob Marley like his maths?
…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 …
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#MathsConf4
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, …