Picking apart and reworking my lessons from last year, I noticed that I almost exclusively model worked examples by handwriting “live” rather than pre-typing. I don’t recall making a conscious decision to do this, but following a discussion with my husband this weekend about print vs digital media, I thought I’d think more critically whether …
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In two weeks I’m returning to work after pretty much a year off on maternity leave. I had such plans – I was finally going to sort out my website, blog more, organise the stupid pile of resources on my memory stick, finish my #mathsconf blogs from 2017 (16, 15, …) – the list goes …
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#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 …
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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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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