So after I blogged about my top five stationery must-haves a couple of weeks ago, I thought I’d share today’s back-to-school shopping haul. There’s a mix of Wilkos and Poundland goodies here, including a few new things I spotted on my walk around the shops! These fluorescent stars are from Poundland (yes, all 90 for £1!) and …
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I spent a bit of time yesterday poking around on AQA’s new GCSE site – there are some superb teaching resources, which I’ll be returning to this year, but also some other interesting finds. As I mentioned yesterday, I found a nice formula poster and a list of command words used in exam questions, which I decided to make …
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So today’s post was supposed to be sharing some posters I made today, but unfortunately it seems that Windows 10 not only wants to reset my system clock every time I log in, it also wants to disable my trusty PDF creator. In lieu of this, I thought I’d share some goodies I’ve found while …
I’m finally resigning myself to the fact that the end of the holidays is nigh and decided to pop into school this morning. I asked for my classroom to be moved round during the holidays, changing the room from having the boards on a short wall to a long wall, so I wanted to suss …
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So right at the start of August I blogged about my #summer10, a list of ten things I wanted to achieve this summer holiday. As it’s the last day of August and I’ve got less than a week to finish all my jobs off, I thought I’d do a retrospective check and work out what I …
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Blog posts “It’s tragic how I start loving a subject as soon as it’s over” (@guerinmaths via @MathsEcho) ~ A superb post that really struck a chord with me about attitudes to maths in Year 11. “Fighting the last war – reflections on 2015 GCSE exam results” ( @steveadcock81 via @miss_mcinerney) ~ Interesting reflections on the validity of current approaches …
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A quick post tonight to share Google Trends, an interesting little web app from Google that allows you to explore what people have been searching for online. I discovered this site a few years ago, and it’s great for getting some interesting real-life data and graphs for short discussions in the classroom.First of all, there’s a …
Exploring “The Language of Mathematics” to discover how primes are used in cryptosystems. It’s another prompt post today… Something I read/learned this summer that intrigued me… Although most of the books I’ve read this summer have been decidedly un-mathematical (for some reason, I’ve started reading history books about the War of the Roses), I did manage …
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Today’s post is, in an incredibly roundabout way, also another post from the prompt list. I’ve had one of those slightly lazy days consisting of mostly watching telly in between loading and unloading the washing machine (festival mud is hard to remove), and decided that my brain wasn’t loving the idea of writing a proper post, …
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I mentioned in my Pick of Twitter a couple of weeks ago that I’d found a link to blog post prompts. Well, we’re on post 40 of 51 now, and I’m getting writer’s block, so thought I’d pick a prompt and go with it for today’s post. I thought this one looked interesting: Read 3 posts from blogs …