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5 Maths Gems #3

Well it's been an emotional twosome of weeks. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat too GCSE results kept many of us upward at nighttime too nosotros experienced the commons feelings of joy, pride, relief too sometimes disappointment. But nevertheless nosotros hold to cook for the novel schoolhouse yr too shout back nearly what we'll exercise differently.

The hardest matter nearly writing these weekly posts is deciding which ideas to feature. I receive got an increasingly long listing of unused textile because fifty-fifty when Twitter's teachers are preoccupied amongst results, the incredible inventiveness too spirit of collaboration remains. In this postal service I'll showcase merely v of the really many ideas shared on Twitter this week.

1. Homework
Kathryn Forster (@DIRT_expert) shared a novel gear upward of homeworks that she has designed. Each homework consists of v sections: literacy, research, memory, skills too stretch. These homeworks would live followed upward past times starter activities such every bit spelling or retentiveness tests too discussions nearly enquiry findings. Kathryn has really helpfully shared iv of her homeworks for us to borrow:
These are actually goodness ideas.

If you're thinking nearly trying out to a greater extent than or less dissimilar approaches to homework I recommend reading Cav's (Homework too Retention and Take Away Homework.

 2. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Scavenger Hunt
Speaking of homework, the Mailbox (@TheMailbox) shared a 'scavenger hunt' which could live adapted every bit starting fourth dimension homework for Year seven or 8.  Alternatively you lot could convey a pile of newspapers too magazines into 1 of your starting fourth dimension Year seven lessons so your pupils tin exercise a poster inward degree using this idea.

3. Oh for a room to telephone yell upward my own...
There's nevertheless a lot of classroom display ideas going circular Twitter. One of my most retweeted retweets this calendar week was this 'Change your words' display:
It's of import to communicate these messages too a display similar this is a goodness agency of doing so. The sentiment originally came from Sarah Hagan's (@mathequalslove) post '2014-2015 Classroom Pics - My Most Colorful Room Yet!'. Sarah may good live 1 of the most enthusiastic maths teachers inward the world! Her weblog is really popular, too rightly so. Check out this lectern inward her room - yes, a lectern! Is this touchstone inward American classrooms? I must acquire one!

I saw lots of prissy display ideas inward Sarah's Homework too Retention and Take Away Homework.

 2. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Scavenger Hunt
Speaking of homework, the Mailbox (@TheMailbox) shared a 'scavenger hunt' which could live adapted every bit starting fourth dimension homework for Year seven or 8.  Alternatively you lot could convey a pile of newspapers too magazines into 1 of your starting fourth dimension Year seven lessons so your pupils tin exercise a poster inward degree using this idea.

3. Oh for a room to telephone yell upward my own...
There's nevertheless a lot of classroom display ideas going circular Twitter. One of my most retweeted retweets this calendar week was this 'Change your words' display:
It's of import to communicate these messages too a display similar this is a goodness agency of doing so. The sentiment originally came from Sarah Hagan's (@mathequalslove) post 'post - similar the figurer posters below - too it made me long for my ain classroom. Whilst inward the baby-making phase of my life I'm having a brief while every bit a part-timer. It's a mixed blessing. One disadvantage is that I don't receive got my ain classroom so I learn inward rooms all over the school. Between lessons I receive got to mash downward crowded corridors amongst my huge purse of books too equipment (this was a nightmare when I was heavily pregnant!). There are lots of other disadvantages to beingness part-time such every bit missing of import information from unminuted meetings too a total lack of career progression opportunities. Of class this is all outweighed past times the massive wages of getting to pass fourth dimension amongst my children, so I'm non complaining... (much).

Another display sentiment I've seen this calendar week is this classroom rules poster, shared by @TeachThought inward this post. I shout back pupils would appreciate these really clear too reasonable messages.

On the land of written report of demeanour management, I enjoyed David Didau's (@learningspy) post on schoolhouse routines.

If you lot desire to brand your ain classroom posters too so recitethis.com is nifty for creating pretty quotes too notices - thank you lot to @mathminds for sharing the link.

And if you're looking to provide your classroom, Stephen Harris (@Stephen_H) shared a twosome of awesome write-on tabular array designs: these ones are nifty for collaboration and tangram tables are perfect for a maths classroom.

And hold upward on display ideas, Mr Allan (@mrallanmaths) shared his RAG123 display, Chris Smith (@aap03102) shared a motion-picture exhibit of his 'Mathematician of the month' board, too Mr Taylor (@taylorda01) adapted Spiked Math's Mathagasm comic so it's suitable for display. I'm going to pocket all iii ideas - if I e'er acquire my ain classroom.

4. Teaching ideas from #mathschat
Weekly maths chats receive got identify on Twitter every Midweek at 8pm, organised by @BetterMaths. This calendar week nosotros discussed our favourite topics, tasks, resources too investigations, so the goodness ideas were coming thick too fast! I've got a long listing to form through.

There were lots of ideas nearly getting out of the classroom. Jon Treby (@JonTrebyAAN) suggested education loci exterior using buildings too string. He likewise puts record on the flooring of the schoolhouse hall when he teaches angles inward parallel lines. Dawn (@mrsdenyer) has a schoolhouse treasure hunt for 3D trigonometry too Martin Noon (@letsgetmathing) suggests using a clinometer to mensurate the meridian of schoolhouse buildings too trees.

There was likewise a lot of beak nearly popcorn! Dawn (@mrsdenyer) gets her students to pattern a popcorn cone - an activity that involves sectors too arcs, Pythagoras too volume. If students tin function out the volume of their cone, they tin fill upward it amongst popcorn! Miss Ren (@ReynoldsBSGD) shared Dan Meyer's popcorn picker chore - 'all you lot demand is A4 paper. I merely stand upward dorsum too scout the kids acquire stuck in!'.

5. Mistakes too feedback
I've written a lot nearly learning from mistakes lately so this tweet was really relevant:

And here's a nifty sentiment for marker from @ChrisHildrew.

So in that place you lot acquire - a minor pick of ideas from a calendar week on Twitter. I promise that's helpful. If you lot missed the previous 2 Maths Gems posts, you lot tin detect them here. I'll exit you lot amongst a prissy interrogation for your students from Big Ideas Math.



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5 Maths Gems #4

Well the summertime holidays are good as well as really over. Many teachers, especially those who are relatively novel to teaching, volition pass this weekend making lists, planning lessons as well as experiencing that unsettling feeling of nervous excitement. If y'all create got fourth dimension to read this week's laid of maths gems, I promise they supply a petty calorie-free relief.

1. Maths lessons for maths teachers
I devote a lot of fourth dimension to thinking almost how to railroad train my teaching but pass far less fourth dimension edifice on my ain mathematical skills as well as knowledge. Whatever our background as well as nonetheless 'good' nosotros are at maths, there's ever to a greater extent than to learn. For example, I’ve never studied whatever mechanics inwards my life (I did Pure Maths Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat as well as a statistics degree) but SUVAT is on the novel GCSE syllabus as well as then I'd ameliorate uncovering out what it is.

I experience that my cognition of secondary schoolhouse core mathematics is pretty audio but this calendar week Ed Southall (@edsouthall) inadvertently pointed me inwards the administration of James Tanton's website (@jamestanton) and inside minutes I was learning novel things! Here's a few examples.

If asked to sketch the graph of y = x2 + 4x + 5, I'd realise that it can't live factorised as well as then I'd cheque the discriminant to confirm that this constituent has no existent roots. My side past times side pace would live to consummate the foursquare to create upwards one's heed the vertex. I don't similar completing the square. I've never thought to uncovering the vertex using this post written past times a pupil I flora out that inwards Republic of Lithuania 1st September is a 'celebration of cognition day'. Also, inwards the Lithuanian equivalent of our Year 13, they create got a '100 twenty-four lx minutes catamenia celebration' inwards which they create got a prom to commemorate that they create got solely 100 days left of school. The residuum of the post is to a greater extent than oftentimes than non almost clothing shopping for Lithuanian teenagers, as well as then non quite as well as then interesting... I'd similar to uncovering out to a greater extent than almost traditions inwards teaching around the world.

3. Plenaries, extensions, puzzles as well as loyalty cards
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This brilliant 'Finished? Try 1 of these...' display got me thinking almost the materials I ready for my early on finishers. The creator of this display, Kerry Tait (@misstait_85), wrote a blog post describing the review tasks contained within, which are intended to encourage students to reverberate on their learning. This is a actually squeamish idea. Kerry is a scientific discipline instructor but this would operate as good inwards maths.

At the destination of my lessons I tend to become for extension activities rather than reflection tasks. In every lesson I give extension operate to the appropriate pupils at the appropriate time. My students know that I'm actually impressed if they create got a become at the extension cloth but at the same fourth dimension I emphasise that maths isn't a race. There's value inwards occasionally planning a relatively curt master copy exercise as well as an 'extension' that is accessible to all, non simply the brightest or the quickest. Most people relish beingness stretched. I desire all of my students to come upwards out of maths lessons feeling similar champions.

My extension operate is usually a challenging inquiry relating to the lesson theme but sometimes I purpose puzzles instead. For event at the destination of a Key Stage iii lesson on the monastic tell of operations I give students the classic four fours puzzle. For fifty-fifty an greater challenge there's this sixes puzzle shared by Chris Smith (@aap03102) (I recall my 6th formers would relish this one), or perchance fifty-fifty something on Friedman numbers.
@edfromo
Here's a few to a greater extent than puzzles as well as extensions I've come upwards across this week. My schoolhouse has a lunchtime puzzle guild for Year 7s as well as then these volition come upwards inwards handy at that topographic point too, as well as I may prepare a weekly puzzle board as suggested past times Mr Duffy (@MrDuffyMaths).

For the 'Finished? Try 1 of these...' display, the creator says that she mightiness blueprint a checklist as well as prize organisation to encourage students to purpose the total attain of reflective tools. This proposition reminded me of a dyad of other ideas I saw on Twitter this week. In @CorbettMaths' post almost how to purpose his 5-a-day questions, he suggests that students set their completed questions inwards a ballot box as well as a fortnightly prize depict takes place. He also shared @MissKMcD's loyalty carte du jour ideas which she's explained inwards this weblog post 'Learning amongst Loyalty Cards'.
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4. Everyday lessons
My weblog is almost sharing creative ideas as well as engaging resources. But my lessons aren't all-singing all-dancing. If y'all were to uncovering most of my lessons you'd run across a pretty measure format of: starter, explanation, discussion, practice, extension. I create create opportunities for students to create investigations as well as exciting activities but non inwards every unmarried lesson. As y'all tin tell past times the championship of my blog, it's actually of import to me that I pick engaging resources. Sometimes that simply agency a good designed worksheet. Harry Webb's (@websofsubstance) post almost maths lessons as well as priorities is good worth a read, especially for NQTs who volition presently live drowning inwards lesson plans. In my NQT twelvemonth each lesson took me a dyad of hours to plan. Four years on, my lessons accept around xxx - 45 minutes to plan, which is soundless totally unsustainable as well as inefficient but I acquire a flake quicker every year. Being able to acquire skilful resources from my weblog should increase my planning speed as I won't create got to create as well as then much hunting for resources.

Harry's post also gave me a novel idea. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 box on the board for students to write downward the homework questions they flora difficult - such a uncomplicated thought but much ameliorate than how I create it at the moment, which unremarkably involves lots of students talking at me at once!

5. Bits as well as pieces
Here's a modest option of the other ideas I saw on Twitter this week:
  • I dearest this 'things to create when you're stuck' poster from The Maths Magpie (@TheMathsMagpie).
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I flora out this calendar week that my term 'maths gems' is totally unoriginal - here's a squeamish 'assortment of mathematical marvels' which are also called maths gems. Speaking of nicely designed websites, create accept a hold off at Mathigon, shared this calendar week past times Chris Watts (@watchri01) - stunning, isn't it?

So that's it for this week. My theme resources posts volition render presently as well as I'll also operate on a this post written past times a pupil I flora out that inwards Republic of Lithuania 1st September is a 'celebration of cognition day'. Also, inwards the Lithuanian equivalent of our Year 13, they create got a '100 twenty-four lx minutes catamenia celebration' inwards which they create got a prom to commemorate that they create got solely 100 days left of school. The residuum of the post is to a greater extent than oftentimes than non almost clothing shopping for Lithuanian teenagers, as well as then non quite as well as then interesting... I'd similar to uncovering out to a greater extent than almost traditions inwards teaching around the world.

3. Plenaries, extensions, puzzles as well as loyalty cards
misstait.wordpress.com
This brilliant 'Finished? Try 1 of these...' display got me thinking almost the materials I ready for my early on finishers. The creator of this display, Kerry Tait (@misstait_85), wrote a blog post describing the review tasks contained within, which are intended to encourage students to reverberate on their learning. This is a actually squeamish idea. Kerry is a scientific discipline instructor but this would operate as good inwards maths.

At the destination of my lessons I tend to become for extension activities rather than reflection tasks. In every lesson I give extension operate to the appropriate pupils at the appropriate time. My students know that I'm actually impressed if they create got a become at the extension cloth but at the same fourth dimension I emphasise that maths isn't a race. There's value inwards occasionally planning a relatively curt master copy exercise as well as an 'extension' that is accessible to all, non simply the brightest or the quickest. Most people relish beingness stretched. I desire all of my students to come upwards out of maths lessons feeling similar champions.

My extension operate is usually a challenging inquiry relating to the lesson theme but sometimes I purpose puzzles instead. For event at the destination of a Key Stage iii lesson on the monastic tell of operations I give students the classic four fours puzzle. For fifty-fifty an greater challenge there's this sixes puzzle shared by Chris Smith (@aap03102) (I recall my 6th formers would relish this one), or perchance fifty-fifty something on Friedman numbers.
@edfromo
Here's a few to a greater extent than puzzles as well as extensions I've come upwards across this week. My schoolhouse has a lunchtime puzzle guild for Year 7s as well as then these volition come upwards inwards handy at that topographic point too, as well as I may prepare a weekly puzzle board as suggested past times Mr Duffy (@MrDuffyMaths).

For the 'Finished? Try 1 of these...' display, the creator says that she mightiness blueprint a checklist as well as prize organisation to encourage students to purpose the total attain of reflective tools. This proposition reminded me of a dyad of other ideas I saw on Twitter this week. In @CorbettMaths' post almost how to purpose his 5-a-day questions, he suggests that students set their completed questions inwards a ballot box as well as a fortnightly prize depict takes place. He also shared @MissKMcD's loyalty carte du jour ideas which she's explained inwards this weblog post 'Learning amongst Loyalty Cards'.
misskmcd.wordpress.com
4. Everyday lessons
My weblog is almost sharing creative ideas as well as engaging resources. But my lessons aren't all-singing all-dancing. If y'all were to uncovering most of my lessons you'd run across a pretty measure format of: starter, explanation, discussion, practice, extension. I create create opportunities for students to create investigations as well as exciting activities but non inwards every unmarried lesson. As y'all tin tell past times the championship of my blog, it's actually of import to me that I pick engaging resources. Sometimes that simply agency a good designed worksheet. Harry Webb's (@websofsubstance) post almost maths lessons as well as priorities is good worth a read, especially for NQTs who volition presently live drowning inwards lesson plans. In my NQT twelvemonth each lesson took me a dyad of hours to plan. Four years on, my lessons accept around xxx - 45 minutes to plan, which is soundless totally unsustainable as well as inefficient but I acquire a flake quicker every year. Being able to acquire skilful resources from my weblog should increase my planning speed as I won't create got to create as well as then much hunting for resources.

Harry's post also gave me a novel idea. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 box on the board for students to write downward the homework questions they flora difficult - such a uncomplicated thought but much ameliorate than how I create it at the moment, which unremarkably involves lots of students talking at me at once!

5. Bits as well as pieces
Here's a modest option of the other ideas I saw on Twitter this week:
  • I dearest this 'things to create when you're stuck' poster from The Maths Magpie (@TheMathsMagpie).
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5 Maths Gems #14

Welcome to my 14th weekly gems post - this is where I characteristic 5 of the best teaching ideas I've seen on Twitter each week.

You may or may non know that I've been writing these posts spell I've been at domicile on motherhood leave. My babe keeps me busy during the day, but my evenings are blissfully costless from marker too lesson planning hence I induce got a rare chance to reverberate on my teaching too get together novel ideas. It's a shame that all teachers can't accept a mini-sabbatical every 5 years to produce the same. When I become dorsum to function inwards Jan I'll induce got 100 maths teaching gems inwards my toolkit - it volition live on difficult to know where to start! 

 1. Two Truths too a Lie
Two Truths too a Lie is traditionally an icebreaker game - somebody tells y'all 3 facts near themselves too y'all guess which 1 is the lie. For instance my blood brother mightiness tell y'all that he was 1 time bitten yesteryear a donkey, he was 1 time bitten yesteryear a serpent too he was 1 time bitten yesteryear a monkey. Bizarrely, solely 1 of those statements is a lie. So let's accept this game too plow it into an action that prompts mathematical discussion.

This thought came from a tweet yesteryear @TCM_at_NCTM:

Polygons (source: mathsisfun.com)
This tweet made me realise that I'm guilty of lazily telling my students that polygon is 'just approximately other word for shape' when inwards fact I should live on to a greater extent than specific - a polygon is a 2D figure amongst at to the lowest degree 3 at 1 time sides too angles (the word derives from the Greek 'many-angled'), hence a circle is non a polygon.

The ii truths near quadrilaterals ('a foursquare is a rectangle' too 'a rectangle is a parallelogram') volition also prompt interesting discussions near definitions. The quadrilateral solid unit of measurement tree mightiness assistance clarify things. The Euler diagram below is also helpful. 
Quadrilaterals (source: Wikipedia)
Here's a span to a greater extent than examples of mathematical 'Two Truths too a Lie' activities:
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 related idea, Maths Lies (where the instructor tells 1 deliberate prevarication per lesson - run across my first gems post) is even hence 1 of my favourite teaching ideas ever.
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2. Wikipedia and visualisation
From 1 to 1,000,000' from Gems 7 near Estimation 180). Show your students the dotty pictures hence they learn a practiced feel of the magnitude of numbers. 
The epitome to a higher identify reminds me of the 'If the World Were a Village of 100 People' visuals I talked near inwards Gems 1 - this is a nice means of conceptualising information that mightiness assistance students sympathise percentages.

3. Creative Mathematicians
Thanks to @gareth_metcalfe for sharing this bright video 'What is a mathematical proof?'. The video explains why mathematicians pass most of their fourth dimension trying things that don't work. Students are oft reluctant to examine a dissimilar approach if their outset examine at answering a inquiry is a dead end. Show this video at schoolhouse to encourage your students to live on creative inwards their mathematical thinking. 



4. Communicating Reasoning
Continuing the theme of encouraging students to examine diverse approaches to solving problems, bright NQT blogger gems post (unlucky 13) was my most pop post ever, amongst almost 2,000 views inwards a week. I also wrote a post on circle theorems final calendar week that I was peculiarly proud of. I beloved my gems posts too my resources library, but it's my topic specials that I mean value people volition discovery the most helpful. I similar to mean value that novel or latterly qualified teachers volition actually produce goodness from these posts when planning to learn a theme for the outset time. 

If y'all similar my weblog hence delight vote for it inwards the Great Britain Blog Awards (click hither to vote). There are over fifty blogs inwards the freelance educational activity category too solely 10 volition become through to the side yesteryear side stage. My weblog is tiny compared to the super-successful, well-established blogs I'm upwardly against. I've solely been writing it since Apr but I've done a lot inwards that fourth dimension - I set my pump too soul into it, hence if y'all discovery it useful hence your vote would live on real much appreciated.

 Finally, produce y'all receive Chris Smith's (@aap03102)  weekly newsletter?  If y'all don't already subscribe hence email him at nowadays to learn on the mailing list. This calendar week he featured Pret homeworks which y'all should accept a await at if y'all haven't seen them before. Chris also featured the fantabulous puzzle below, which I'm looking frontward to giving my students when I provide to function inwards January.




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Words Of Wisdom: Pedagogy Foundation Gcse

As expected, the final #mathsTLP of the schoolhouse yr was a fleck quieter than usual. As host, 1 of my jobs is to move along the chat flowing. So I filled a gap inward conversation amongst a question:
I hadn't been planning to inquire this inquiry - it was merely the commencement matter that came to heed at a 2nd when I wanted to acquire people talking. But too then something quite extraordinary happened. Over the few days that followed, I was inundated amongst helpful advice - I received over a hundred replies to my question. These words of wisdom come upward from experienced teachers. Teachers who've taught depression attainers, cared close them, believed inward them. Teachers who've done everything they tin give the axe to give these students opportunities inward life, who've lay huge amounts of endeavour into supporting them. I admire these teachers. I desire to hold upward 1 of these teachers.

"Throw away the handbook"  @solvemymaths

I received so much advice that it was all a fleck overwhelming. I went dorsum through every notification too made notes. It would hold upward incorrect non to percentage about of the ideas here. After all, I'm non the solely instructor who'll hold upward didactics depression attainers for the commencement fourth dimension side past times side year. I promise that others volition also create goodness from all this goodness advice.

1. Building relationships

 "Make them believe inward themselves"  @FKRitson

There were lots of replies close how to create self-esteem, confidence too trust. Advice included:
  • "Friday biscuits or a loving cup of tea plant wonders. Instill confidence & permit them know you lot believe inward them. With 1 of my groups nosotros took a lesson off to pattern too decorate our ain mugs. Best quote 'Miss, you've got a teapot! That's similar a dead posh restaurant'".    ‏@Ms_Kmp. "I was amazed at the behaviour on a loving cup of tea had for 1 immature man. Came for assist & a cuppa every Wed!"  ‏@takepi21
  • "Instilling confidence is the key. Make the lessons non-threatening (they are inward the laid because they "fear" maths).... Make it dissimilar to the diet they've been served hence far; assay stuff, it volition breed confidence."  ‏@andylutwyche 
  • "Your sales pitch is that it's 'us against the exam', 'we tin give the axe crunch this'. Their self belief inward maths volition hold upward low, they volition hold upward v sensitive to feeling patronised".  ‏@BodilUK 
  • "Give them lots of testify to present they're getting C degree function right. You're non promising it every bit a grade, but they demand possibility."  @adamcreen 
  • "Lots of repetition! They'll prob hold upward depression inward confidence so create this up. Word things inward ways that don't belittle them. ... If they don't acquire something, too then "maybe I didn't explicate it really well..." It helps their confidence."  @WelshReady 

2. Pick your battles

"As Napoleon said 'If you lot can't hold upward rigid everywhere, selection a house too hold upward rigid there.'"   ‏@MrMattock

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 number of replies were close choosing which topics to teach. I won't hold upward able to comprehend the whole syllabus - far from it - so I should focus on a express number of fundamental topics.
  • "If you lot tin give the axe give them a quick win … that is ever good. Index laws are squeamish every bit they are legitimately C-Grade but tardily every bit hell! ... They won't acquire goodness at it all, so create upward one's heed what you lot desire them to empathise too reinforce that."  ‏@MrMattock 
  • "Don't hold upward picky either, they mightiness acquire Pythag but non directed numbers."  ‏@DJUdall 
  • "Don't hold upward jump past times the degree of a topic - expanding brackets is easier than many eastward degree topics! … Focus on topics amongst visual cues too predictable processes, such every bit transformations or scatter graphs."  ‏@danicquinn 
  • "When gearing upward for the exam, you lot may desire to condense your curriculum into 'hot topics'. Keep it focussed. ... We picked out the favourite xxx or so inquiry types from exams over the final five years."  @jase_wanner 
  • "Doubt you'll hold upward able to acquire through everything. Pick most of import bits too learn them well" @Teachanana

Many teachers told me that numeracy is key. I volition demand to have got "a relentless focus on pith numeracy skills" (@ThainMike).

"Numeracy skills too times tables. Again, over again too and then about more!" @RandomNumeracy
3. Memorisation

"Go for memorisation through every memorisation technique known to man"  @solvemymaths

For the vast bulk of our students, conceptual agreement is vital. Teaching maths 'properly' is a maths teacher's raison d'être. But these are particular circumstances. Give a depression attaining pupil the chance to acquire a C inward GCSE Maths - past times whatsoever agency necessary - too you've opened a window of chance inward a immature person's life.
  • "I notice repetition helps. Do things speedily but repeat often".  ‏@MissMathsDla
  • "Bring multifariousness to memorisation: flash cards, retention Rex (one stands upward too gets drum ringlet earlier reciting commencement 10 primes, etc)... "  @danicquinn
  • "Most of their problems are issues amongst fluency so they can't *get* C/D degree topics when modelled. Remedial function on number is essential for quite a acre at the start of the year. ... I ever start amongst commencement fifteen squares, commencement five cubes, too roots/ cube roots. Make it compulsory to hold upward able to recite them inward 10 seconds inside a calendar week & time/ game them.  @StuartLock
  • "Find interesting ways to reinforce fundamental number concepts; that volition hold upward their most serious need"  @MrMattock
  • "You desire dizzy dances, phrases, gesticulations, daft images to associate...everything". @solvemymaths
  • "YMCA becomes y = mx + c... angle sizes memorised past times arm actions... and the circle vocal is a must. Diddle, the median' s the middle"  @7wittermiss.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 number of people recommended Sticky Studying for memorisation techniques.

4. Resources

"Never permit them permit move of the basics. Drill them inward every lesson".  @DJUdall

Many teachers recommended resources. The by too large mutual recommendation was Numeracy 5-a-day from Corbettmaths.

Times Table Rockstars was also recommended. @MrReddyMaths suggested adapting it past times didactics the tables upfront each calendar week too cutting out the music - "Emphasise 'competition' amongst themselves past times highlighting how much they're improving over the week".

Mathsbox was recommended, every bit were Andy Lutwyche's resources on TES, Bread too Butter resources from Just Maths too Essential Skills from MathedUp!.

Thanks to @tessmaths for sending me a laid of colourful Foundation Revision Cards from the MA - these volition hold upward really helpful.

@DIRT_expert suggested using Cumulative Starters to create upward skills too tackle fear. Students are asked the same questions at the start of each lesson but to a greater extent than questions are added every bit they larn novel content.

5. More ideas

"You mightn't taste lessons at times; you'll taste the intellectual challenge it'll give you"  @siobhanorb

Here are about to a greater extent than things I demand to think close inward my planning:
  • I demand to notice out close the literacy levels of my students too their attendance. 
  • A few people suggested entering them for Higher GCSE rather than Foundation (there are mixed views on this). 
  • @ColleenYoung suggested I create lots of brusk mini-tests amongst immediate feedback. 
  • ‏@danicquinn suggested mini mocks, where you lot commencement function together on a "mock mock" (same questions, dissimilar numbers) earlier the existent one.
  • @NEdge9 talked close the importance of students knowing the important of key words. She said that sometimes they tin give the axe create the maths but can't think what the words mean. 
  • @missdenzil said that lessons should comprise small tasks, lots of dissimilar activities, rewards, competition, whiteboard work, too mastering basics.
Summary
@MrBenWard summarised the fundamental messages nicely inward this tweet: 
When I commencement run across my novel degree inward September, no doubtfulness about things volition have got me past times surprise. But the advice I received this calendar week has got my caput buzzing amongst ideas too I experience laid - dare I country excited - to acquire started amongst this class.

Huge thank you lot to all who tweeted too emailed me ideas too resources. In social club to move along this post a reasonable length, I haven't been able to include all the replies I received, but every unmarried slice of advice was valuable too volition hold upward factored into my planning for side past times side year. Thanks also to @ColinTheMathmo for helping me collate too organise the tweets. 

I'm so grateful that I tin give the axe rely on the maths instructor Twitter community to back upward me throughout the year. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 challenge lies ahead, but I've got adept advisers at mitt to regard me through it. 



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5 Maths Gems #35

Hi there. Welcome to my 35th gems post. This is where I part v educational activity ideas I've seen on Twitter. The summertime holidays are at nowadays inwards total swing thus Twitter has been serenity this week. I expression it volition acquire busier inwards August - results days volition laissez passer on us lots to utter about, as well as thus we'll all start making preparations for September. I'm off on a delineate of piece of work solid unit of measurement vacation adjacent calendar week (including an exciting twenty-four sixty minutes current out at Peppa Pig World!) thus soul volition conduct maintain to create total me inwards on what I miss! I tweeted my 10,000th tweet yesterday. I alone joined Twitter terminal May thus I retrieve that officially makes me a chatterbox.

1. Angle Chase 
I featured angle chases in Gems 24, Gems 26 and Gems 32 . I find this type of action actually enjoyable. @MathedUp shared a whole charge of angle chases here. I dear these - they're a smashing resources both for classwork as well as for revision.
@mathninja3 suggested putting a permanent angle chase on the classroom wall. This reminded me of the display by @ExplainingMaths pictured below. I retrieve it would hold upwards smashing to lay a large angle chase up, perchance yesteryear sticking record on a large whiteboard or a wall painted amongst whiteboard paint. If anyone has done this inwards their classroom, I'd dear to come across a photo.

2. Presentation Standards
I've written earlier virtually setting expectations for the presentation of classwork as well as homework. The start of a novel schoolhouse yr is the fourth dimension to create upwards one's hear how to approach this. latest post about Analysing Errors is no exception. From September I excogitation to start setting regular low-stakes tests. For my Year 10s, I'm thinking of a curt weekly quiz (perhaps multiple choice, marked amongst Quick Key). As suggested yesteryear Sarah, I excogitation to flat these quizzes A, B or Not Yet, amongst anyone scoring a Not Yet having to accept some other test. In Sarah's postal service she suggests that earlier retaking a quiz, students are required to analyse their showtime attempt. She's going to laissez passer on them an fault analysis canvass that does these things:
  • Require students to function out each employment correctly
  • Ask students to position what they did incorrect when they showtime attempted the problem
  • Direct students to reverberate on how they volition avoid making this same fault inwards the future
  • Get students thinking virtually what types of errors they are making
Sarah has produced a fantastic poster to push clit dissimilar types of errors. Read her post for to a greater extent than virtually this as well as to download the poster.
Types of Errors by @mathequalslove
5. The Famous Five
I dear this post from @mccreaemma. It's virtually an approach called 'The Famous 5' that Emma uses in every lesson. When students acquire into the room they are forthwith presented amongst a task. The names of v students that begin/finish/engage good amongst the employment are written on the whiteboard. Their vantage is to move out the classroom showtime at the goal of the lesson. Emma says that her students dear it (I retrieve this would function actually good for my students too) as well as it reduces wasted fourth dimension at the start of lessons. Her postal service is good worth a read.

Update
I'm continuing to function on resourceaholic.com behind the scenes when I acquire a chance. I've added some resources to my libraries as well as made updates to my New GCSE Support page. If you've got some fourth dimension over summertime to brand resources, here's a listing of topics that nosotros demand to a greater extent than resources for:
Huge thank y'all to post virtually the additional sequences content on the novel GCSE. It features examples of testify questions as well as resources. I was pleased to larn a novel method for finding the nth term of a quadratic sequence.

I'm enjoying spending lots of fourth dimension amongst my daughters this summer. It's all going also speedily for my liking though! It's August already, which agency I'm dorsum to schoolhouse 1 calendar month today. #mathsconf5 is adjacent calendar month too. Have y'all got your ticket yet?

Finally, I dear this homework for the summertime holidays that's been going circular Twitter. What a lovely idea.
Holiday homework yesteryear Tom Christy



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