Welcome to my 62nd update from the globe of Maths EduTwitter. Here I summarise around of the latest ideas as well as resources for teaching maths.1. H5N1 Brilliant Problem
If y'all get got a Facebook occupation organisation human relationship as well as thence it's definitely worth liking Brilliant.org's Facebook page for an ongoing time period of lovely maths problems inward your word feed. I specially similar the work below - I'd role it every bit a starter inward a GCSE lesson.
2. Symbaloo
Emma Bell (@EJMaths) has created a really helpful Symbaloo of maths didactics websites. All y'all get got to create is click on 'start using this webmix' as well as register for a costless account. You tin hand the sack learn inward your homepage thence whenever y'all opened upwards the mesh you'll get got a lovely laid upwards of maths websites, blogs, tools as well as resources to direct from. This volition relieve teachers lots of fourth dimension as well as assistance them honor novel websites too.
3. Fraction Division
An approach to dividing fractions that doesn't involving 'flipping'... this method from @solvemymaths is worth a look.
@offpistemaths shared these indices questions from an Eton scholarship paper aimed at Year 8. I dear these problems - to a greater extent than of our students should survive given the chance to endeavor challenging questions similar this.
Here's a novel costless resources from MathsPad. These interactive GCSE exam-style questions are available for both Higher as well as Foundation. They would run good every bit daily lesson starters on an interactive whiteboard. It's tardily to switch questions as well as display answers.
Update
Summer is nearly over! H5N1 flat as well as GCSE results days were specially emotional as well as exciting for me this twelvemonth (my kickoff results at my novel school). It's weird to mean value that this was our concluding GCSE results hateful solar daytime alongside grades A* to U - adjacent twelvemonth we'll survive seeing numerical grades for the kickoff time. It's also weird to mean value that the coming schoolhouse twelvemonth volition survive the concluding fourth dimension nosotros learn C1 as well as C2, every bit modular H5N1 flat comes to an end.
You powerfulness survive interested inward seeing the 'hardest' inquiry on this year's Edexcel maths Higher GCSE, which was exclusively answered correctly past times 2.6% of students (thanks to @MathsEmporium for sharing this).
Posts
Did y'all grab my recent post most Multiplying Negatives? If you're teaching improver as well as subtraction alongside negative numbers, y'all powerfulness similar Classroom Displays
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I'll move out y'all alongside this lovely laid upwards of problems shared past times @Mathematical_A, taken from 'A Square Peg inward a Round Hole'. Find the fraction of the surface area of the quadrant occupied past times each semicircle.
