#Mathsmeetglyn Amongst Don Steward

Today I hosted #mathsmeetglyn. I was hence pleased that fourscore maths teachers turned upwards on a Sat morning time to regard Don Steward's presentation. I was too chuffed to in conclusion run into the human being who makes the bright resources that I role inward my classroom everyday.

Don spoke for ii in addition to one-half hours in addition to inward that fourth dimension he covered huge amounts of fascinating mathematics. He had 3 sets of slides packed total of ideas in addition to resources - these tin laissez passer on the axe endure downloaded here:

• Part 1: Generalising 
• Part 2: Exam Questions Generalised
• Extra Generalising (not covered today)

I thoroughly enjoyed Don's presentations. I peculiarly liked a 2nd correct at the terminate when nosotros were all working difficult on an enlargement problem. The thought was that nosotros enlarged a triangle amongst scale element 2 from betoken 1, in addition to hence enlarged that picture amongst scale element 2 from betoken 2. Then nosotros had to uncovering the centre of enlargement of our 2nd picture from the master copy triangle. We did this for a release of questions in addition to started to notice patterns. None of us could figure out what was causing the pattern, only in addition to hence Don said something virtually how nosotros were all getting a lot of exercise of drawing enlargements. And that was when it all barbarous into place... Much of the generalising that Don talked virtually was quite advanced, only it all involved lots of exercise - ie developing fluency - inward the steps leading upwards to generalisation. We were practising enlargements without fifty-fifty realising nosotros were practising! We were engaged because it was intriguing - because it was leading somewhere interesting. Clever, eh?

After the event, 20 of us had a lovely dejeuner at La Familia.

Mark Horley has written virtually ane detail occupation from Don's session inward this post: Stumped past times a Foundation GCSE Maths Question. If you lot were at today's effect in addition to you lot write a weblog postal service virtually it, delight allow me know in addition to I'll listing it here.

Nothing beats champaign of written report noesis CPD. It was similar a large maths lesson inward a room total of people who dear maths.

Thanks hence much to everyone who came, thank you lot to my headteacher for supporting the event, in addition to thank you lot to Don Steward for delivering a fantastic session.