What’s in a name? (Fractions)
The etymology of mathematics absolutely fascinates me. The English language is remarkably irregular, but mathematical…
Math like an Egyptian – five things I’ve learned about Egyptian fractions
(You're going to have to let me off for using the word "math" in the…
Introducing fraction arithmetic (1)
The lesson(s) detailed below have been absolutely groundbreaking for me in terms of teaching adding…
Maths puzzles galore!
Just a quickie tonight to share the love for a few maths puzzle booklets I've…
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…