Just a quick post today with a few useful goodies for the new Maths GCSE – these are all links I’ve found useful in planning and resourcing our schemes of work. From the exam boards: DfE – Subject content and assessment objectives: Learning outcomes and content coverage for the new GCSE from the DfE. GCSE …
Planning for GCSE 2015 Read More »
Bit of a random topic for my third SBPC, but bear with me. Over the weekend, my fiance dragged me to watch Jurassic World; I wasn’t keen, as I missed the Jurassic Park hype when I was younger, and don’t really enjoy action films. Since watching Jurassic World, we went back and watched three episodes …
Logarithmic thinking, evolution and dinosaurs Read More »
Tonight’s post is another quick one about using ratio tables, this time for solving proportional reasoning problems. I’ve previously blogged about using them for percentage calculations and converting fractions to percentages, so thought that a post on general proportional reasoning was long overdue! Note: The ideas detailed in this post took a good few lessons to work through, and …
Exploring proportional reasoning Read More »
Lots of brilliant stuff this fortnight! I’m adding all the fantastic lesson ideas and resources to the Resources by Topic index, but it’s a very slow process. I’m hoping to get all the pages done for September 2015. I particularly enjoyed this week’s #mathsTLP – I managed to miss the previous one as the bank holiday confused …
Pick of Twitter 09/05/15 and 16/05/15 Read More »
In the spirit of encouraging personal positive thinking, I’ve decided to start a new Sunday blog series on the best lesson I’ve taught the previous week. This week my pick actually covers two lessons of work, and was delivered to my Year 9s on Thursday and Friday. To provide a bit of context, we’re trialling …
LOTW 10/05/15 Comparing and ordering fractions and decimals Read More »
As I was away in London last weekend visiting a friend and completely not thinking about school, here’s a fortnight’s worth of Twitter picks! @Nat_Numeracy posted a great puzzle using Pythagoras’ theorem for those people who found Cheryl’s birthday too easy. @PardoeMary posted a link to Visual Patterns, a site with a huge amount of scope for use …
Pick of Twitter 02/05/15 Read More »
@missradders ~ Link to a blog post from Disappointed Idealist about the issues with SATs resits; a very thought-provoking piece from a parent/teacher. Given that a significant number of pupils get to secondary school in Year 7 with real confidence issues with maths, I can’t see that getting them to resit a standardised test is really going to …
Pick of Twitter 18/04/15 Read More »
I’ve been teaching trigonometry from scratch with Year 10 this week, so thought it would be a good opportunity to blog about the way I introduce sine, cosine and tangent. This is another sequence of lessons I love teaching, because it’s one of my tried and tested approaches and seems to work well each year. …
How I teach trigonometry in right-angled triangles Read More »
Only a few goodies this week, mostly because I’ve been neglecting Twitter in favour of enjoying the second week of my Easter holidays; normal service resuming next week! @MrChalal01 ~ Link to “What can we learn from Dylan Wiliam and AfL” via Pragmatic Reform. A great blog post looking at what happens when educational research gets …
PIck of Twitter 11/04/15 Read More »
I’m currently a few chapters into Tony Crilly’s book “How Big is Infinity”; I picked this up during a shopping trip on Easter Saturday, following an instruction from a shopping buddy that we should all “treat ourselves to something lovely” – I think she had smellies or clothes in mind; she seemed quite nonplussed that my …
How Big is Infinity (or how I learned to stop worrying and love set theory) Read More »