Showing posts with label Displays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Displays. Show all posts

5 Maths Gems #1

I’m fairly novel to Twitter. My absence over the final few years agency I’ve missed out on thousands of fantabulous didactics ideas. Twitter is a source of endless inspiration. So I cause got a plan. I’m going to write a weekly post highlighting 5 swell novel ideas I’ve gleaned from Twitter. These posts volition aid me retrieve things. And hopefully my readers volition do goodness too.

Today I’ve exceeded my trammel in addition to am presenting a listing of 6 ideas from my calendar week on Twitter (not a practiced start! I’ll aim for 5 adjacent week).

1. Practical ideas from Maryse. It sounds similar Maryse (@AllThingsMaths) has done an amazing labor transforming mathematics didactics inward her schoolhouse in addition to enthusing her students alongside tonnes of creative ideas. Here’s a alternative of those she’s shared this week:
  • Play grab alongside eggs in addition to function out the relative frequency of smashing.
  • Get an onetime tyre, pigment it in addition to whorl it to demonstrate circumference. 
  • Have a seat out business painted inward the playground.
  • Have discussions most going dorsum inward fourth dimension in addition to Doctor Who alongside go graphs. 
I dearest these ideas. Follow @AllThingsMaths for lots more.

Mistake Game, Colin Beveridge (My Favorite Liar’. You must read this! It prompted a give-and-take on Twitter most whether the thought would function inward maths. I think it would. In your start lesson alongside a novel class, say them that you'll say 1 prevarication per lesson. Your pupils cause got to position your lies. In the give-and-take on Twitter nosotros came upwards alongside a practiced listing of lies in addition to misconceptions, such every bit 'multiplication makes numbers bigger', 'if a seat out has 6 zeros so it's inward the millions' in addition to 'one is a prime number'. The thought is that y'all sideslip these lies into your didactics in addition to promise that your pupils volition right away challenge you. And if no-one challenges y'all so it volition brand a overnice plenary discussion. Mr Allan (@mrallanmaths) is going to endeavor it out - I’m actually looking frontward to hearing how effective it is. I think, similar the error game, it volition last incredibly engaging.

3. Box plots party. In reply to my post most teaching box plots, Pete Sides of the South Yorkshire Maths Hub (@SYMathsHub) suggested a lovely action inward which pupils speak over the ages of guests at unlike types of party, to aid them sympathise the concept of spread. For representative y'all could inquire them to line a box plot representing the ages of guests at an 18th birthday party, a wedding, a child’s political party etc. I similar this thought so I turned it into a worksheet in addition to added it to my weblog post.

Trigonometry triangles are similar. I’ve never given much thought to the fact that my students are missing an chance to practise rearranging formulae. I sympathise the argue for mixed views on these methods, but I do rather similar the triangle shared yesteryear Malc Henderson (@malc_henderson) for solving opposite percent problems. It’s overnice to cause got a make of tools to back upwards students when they’re preparing for their GCSEs.


6. Display ideas. Clarissa Grandi (@c0mplexnumber) posted a pic of her novel ‘vwllss’ corridor display (inspiration from @El_Timbre). It looks fantastic - what a practiced idea!


Other practiced display ideas I’ve seen lately include circle formulae yesteryear Dawn (@mrsdenyer), a foursquare beginning clock yesteryear Duncan Smart (@duncsmart), in addition to an interactive seat out puzzle for a maths corridor or classroom, shared yesteryear Mr C Ward (@MrWardMaths).





There y'all go, vi maths gems from @mathsjem (my initials are JEM yesteryear the way, it’s non a spelling mistake!). This is merely a pocket-size alternative of the practiced ideas I’ve seen on Twitter this week. More to come upwards adjacent week!

I’m working on a few posts at the moment, including 1 on introducing algebra in addition to 1 on introducing differentiation – if y'all cause got whatever swell ideas so delight electronic mail resourceaholic@gmail.com or tweet me.



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5 Maths Gems #2

Last calendar week I promised I'd write a weekly postal service summarising the novel teaching ideas I'd seen on Twitter. Afterwards I worried whether I'd direct maintain plenty cloth to write about, but this calendar week I wasn't disappointed. Plenty of ideas were shared - here's v of them.

1. Revision Whispers. As I've said before, I'm ever on the await out for engaging ideas for revision lessons. Billy Adamson (@Billyads_47) shared this fantastic sentiment 'Maths Whispers!' inwards which pupils are given a fact or formula to communicate amongst their classmates, 'Chinese Whispers' style. Billy says that when his students were walking downwards the corridor afterwards, they were excitedly talking most what each disceptation was initially too what it became. I dearest this idea. It would operate good inwards other subjects too. Check out Billy's resources on TES. Here's a variation I powerfulness endeavor for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 plane revision: carve upwards the degree into teams. The teams shape lines from the dorsum of the classroom upwards to the board. The pupils at the dorsum are given a message to read. Here's an representative from S2:
All teams direct maintain the same message. The message is simultaneously passed along the lines inwards whispers. The finally pupil inwards each describe writes the message on the board. The most accurate squad wins! Then shuffle the students too endeavor some other message. My A plane revision cards direct maintain plenty of ideas for messages - definitions too formulae would operate well.

2. Post-its. Mr Allan (@mrallanmaths) wrote this blog post most his purpose of post-it notes inwards lessons. He displays questions on boards around his classroom. Students (in pairs or teams) operate their agency around the room answering the questions on post-it notes. It's a quick too tardily agency of assessing agreement too finding misconceptions. It's also really engaging, fifty-fifty though the questions are precisely from a textbook. The sentiment originated from a tweet past times Chris McGrane (@ChrisMcGrane84) back inwards January. Shelley Smith (@saxsmith27) successfully tried it out this week.
Speaking of post-it notes, I similar this 'What stuck amongst you?' idea, shared past times @RemindHQ. It could endure a prissy plenary activity ane time a week, or fifty-fifty at the terminate of every lesson.

If you lot desire to a greater extent than post-it banknote teaching ideas too then banking concern jibe out 'fractions weblog post this calendar week I discovered the blog Authentic Inquiry Maths which is total of skillful ideas, similar T-charts for highlighting similarities too differences. Pupils purpose ICT to create their charts too you lot larn a prissy mix of presentation styles, similar the representative below.
Ed Southall's (@edsouthall) tricky maths problems on his website solvemymaths.com are also actually visually appealing too I await forrad to using them to challenge too extend my students adjacent year.
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Here's some other 'attractive' activity I spotted on Twitter this week. This ane was shared past times Khan Academy (@khanacademy).  It's an engaging activity because it's visually striking, accessible too has a skillful plane of challenge for pupils who've studied Pythagoras' Theorem. Shame I don't direct maintain the budget for colour photocopying!

4. Starting a novel schoolhouse year. With exclusively ii weeks left inwards the summertime holidays, I've started to meet weblog posts most things to practise inwards starting fourth dimension lessons of the schoolhouse year. I wrote a pair myself a few weeks agone - ane on your starting fourth dimension lesson amongst Year 7 too ane on kicking off Year 12.  Here's a few to a greater extent than I've spotted late that are worth a read:
  • This 'Deliberate Mistakes, Jo Boaler (@joboaler) talked this calendar week most the value of mistakes inwards ‘Setting upwards Positive Norms inwards Maths Class'. In this document, she suggests that nosotros brand a habit of inviting pupils to the board to portion their conceptual mistakes. She also suggests that pupils crumple a slice of newspaper too throw it at the board - precisely once, inwards a symbolic form of agency - non every fourth dimension they brand a mistake... Though I wonder if that would endure worth trying too, to works life a classroom civilization of ‘everyone makes mistakes’ too to encourage risk-taking. Can you lot imagine if your pupils threw all their mistakes at the board? It powerfulness larn a chip messy. Fun though.

    Jo makes a position out of other useful suggestions inwards her article, such equally writing students' skillful questions on posters around the room. She also talks most the importance of valuing depth over speed. Many of my students larn inwards in secondary schoolhouse amongst the impression that it’s of import to practise maths quickly. ‘Beat the clock’ type activities encourage this. What’s the rush?

    So, some helpful thoughts from Jo Boaler. Shame most the negative article she wrote this calendar week most maths teaching inwards the UK, but yay to the NCETM for defending us! It’s prissy to know somebody has our backs.

    And finally...
    I'll destination off today's postal service amongst 3 recommended reads:
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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 #5

Twitter is a unlike identify straightaway everyone's dorsum at school. During the solar daytime it's actually tranquillity because teachers are difficult at work, merely inwards the eve it comes live on again. Despite existence the outset calendar week of term, the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland maths twitter chats (#mathscpdchat on Tuesdays as well as #mathschat on Wednesdays) were equally busy equally e'er - equally park they gave me enough of inspiration.

This calendar week likewise saw the supply of instructor blogs. I actually bask reading reflections of what teachers convey been trying inwards their lessons, what went good as well as what didn't. These blogs are a fantastic source of ideas.

This 5th weekly gems shipping is (unintentionally) brought to yous past times the missive of the alphabet P. It features patterns, puzzles, primes, projects, plenaries as well as posters.

1. Patterns as well as Puzzles
Fawn Nguyen's (blog post close a successful lesson inwards which her students were actually engaged inwards exploring these sequences.

Sticking amongst visual maths, Denise Gaskins (@letsplaymath) shared a puzzle from the website 1001 Visual Puzzles. I explored this site as well as constitute that it's full of rattling odd as well as master copy puzzles. I likewise learnt a piddling close topology - what a bizarre branch of mathematics. Here's an event of a topological puzzle (students would demand to advert to a map of South America for this):
2. Primes
Primes are actually interesting, aren't they? I've seen to a greater extent than or less slap-up materials on primes this week.

Richard Green (@edfromo) is a mathematician who posts regularly on Google+. He writes actually interesting things close a broad gain of mathematical topics. He frequently features animations which you'll know I'm a fan of if yous read my shipping close animations as well as simulations. For event this is a rattling clear explanation of Mersenne primes as well as perfect numbers.

If you're thinking of doing something on primes amongst your students, @the_chalkface shared this first-class true or fake activity which students volition detect interesting as well as stretching.

I likewise similar this activeness 'Further Factor Properties' from @TeachitMaths, mainly because it involves sexy primes as well as I'm a chip young similar that.

4. Projects
I've never sentiment of textbook redesign before, merely it could live on a actually skilful mini-project at the destination of a topic. On blog post close a successful lesson inwards which her students were actually engaged inwards exploring these sequences.

Sticking amongst visual maths, Denise Gaskins (@letsplaymath) shared a puzzle from the website 1001 Visual Puzzles. I explored this site as well as constitute that it's full of rattling odd as well as master copy puzzles. I likewise learnt a piddling close topology - what a bizarre branch of mathematics. Here's an event of a topological puzzle (students would demand to advert to a map of South America for this):
2. Primes
Primes are actually interesting, aren't they? I've seen to a greater extent than or less slap-up materials on primes this week.

Richard Green (@edfromo) is a mathematician who posts regularly on Google+. He writes actually interesting things close a broad gain of mathematical topics. He frequently features animations which you'll know I'm a fan of if yous read my shipping close Pythagoras' Theorem as well as added a topic specials page as well as thence yous tin rapidly detect similar posts. I likewise had a rant close student targets inwards which I questioned whether they are effective or fifty-fifty necessary. After Ed Southall (@edsouthall) shared these awesome wall decals, I updated my mathsy gifts page. I've likewise added a duo to a greater extent than homeworks to the Pret homeworks page.

How skilful are yous at drawing lines of best fit? Test yourself here (thanks to @MARitchings) - fun for teachers as well as likewise a useful lesson resource.

Finally - look, blog post close a successful lesson inwards which her students were actually engaged inwards exploring these sequences.

Sticking amongst visual maths, Denise Gaskins (@letsplaymath) shared a puzzle from the website 1001 Visual Puzzles. I explored this site as well as constitute that it's full of rattling odd as well as master copy puzzles. I likewise learnt a piddling close topology - what a bizarre branch of mathematics. Here's an event of a topological puzzle (students would demand to advert to a map of South America for this):
2. Primes
Primes are actually interesting, aren't they? I've seen to a greater extent than or less slap-up materials on primes this week.

Richard Green (@edfromo) is a mathematician who posts regularly on Google+. He writes actually interesting things close a broad gain of mathematical topics. He frequently features animations which you'll know I'm a fan of if yous read my shipping close my end maths gems post.



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5 Maths Gems #8

I enjoyed coming together many of yous at La Salle Education's National Mathematics Teacher Conference yesterday. It was a fantastic chance for sharing ideas. But 500 maths teachers out of 350,000 is a drib inward the ocean. It's such a shame that thence many schools weren't represented.

Although at that spot are some pockets of collaboration throughout the UK, for event through regional TeachMeets, the fact is that the bulk of U.K. maths teachers alive inward a bubble. Through no error of their own, they know really niggling almost approaches taken inward other schools - including pedagogy, curriculum pattern together with novel technologies. Twitter is purpose of the solution, but it doesn't acquire inward enough.

this post, "in high performing countries teachers pass 30% of their fourth dimension teaching, alongside the residual spent planning, preparing together with assessing every bit good every bit working on improving their practice. Compared to the UK, where it’s 90%".

This weekend, 500 maths teachers gave upward a precious Sabbatum to larn from each other. I'm really grateful to La Salle Education for providing that opportunity. To me it farther highlighted the quest for cross-school subject-specific collaboration during term-time. Instead of spending our Inset days hearing almost our schools' latest mark policies, nosotros should all live on out having mini-conferences of our own. Let's promise that when our novel Maths Hubs acquire dorsum from their trips to Shanghai, improving collaboration is spill out of their listing of priorities - together with yesteryear that I hateful collaboration alongside all schools, non simply the schools alongside tweeting teachers or a proactive Head of Maths.

Now for my weekly maths gems. For those who receive got simply started reading my blog, this is where I part 5 non bad ideas that I've seen on Twitter each week. If yous desire to read whatsoever of my previous gems posts, they're all here.

1. Paint! And my ideal classroom
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This weekend, 500 maths teachers gave upward a precious Sabbatum to larn from each other. I'm really grateful to La Salle Education for providing that opportunity. To me it farther highlighted the quest for cross-school subject-specific collaboration during term-time. Instead of spending our Inset days hearing almost our schools' latest mark policies, nosotros should all live on out having mini-conferences of our own. Let's promise that when our novel Maths Hubs acquire dorsum from their trips to Shanghai, improving collaboration is spill out of their listing of priorities - together with yesteryear that I hateful collaboration alongside all schools, non simply the schools alongside tweeting teachers or a proactive Head of Maths.

Now for my weekly maths gems. For those who receive got simply started reading my blog, this is where I part 5 non bad ideas that I've seen on Twitter each week. If yous desire to read whatsoever of my previous gems posts, they're all my final gems post and he told me almost something wonderful. He plant inward a novel schoolhouse where all the classroom walls are painted alongside whiteboard paint. So he has no whiteboards inward his room (other than the interactive board), but he - together with his students - tin write on whatsoever wall.

This got me thinking almost my ideal classroom. I'd receive got all the walls painted alongside whiteboard pigment (student operate would live on proudly displayed inward the corridors instead of inward the classroom). I similar the thought of students sitting inward a horseshoe when I teach, similar inward the motion-picture demo below. I intend this would halt low-level disruption together with would encourage meliorate course of written report discussion. They could also do independent practise inward these chairs.

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This weekend, 500 maths teachers gave upward a precious Sabbatum to larn from each other. I'm really grateful to La Salle Education for providing that opportunity. To me it farther highlighted the quest for cross-school subject-specific collaboration during term-time. Instead of spending our Inset days hearing almost our schools' latest mark policies, nosotros should all live on out having mini-conferences of our own. Let's promise that when our novel Maths Hubs acquire dorsum from their trips to Shanghai, improving collaboration is spill out of their listing of priorities - together with yesteryear that I hateful collaboration alongside all schools, non simply the schools alongside tweeting teachers or a proactive Head of Maths.

Now for my weekly maths gems. For those who receive got simply started reading my blog, this is where I part 5 non bad ideas that I've seen on Twitter each week. If yous desire to read whatsoever of my previous gems posts, they're all acrylic sheets.

The rooms I currently learn inward are every bit good minor for me to easily accomplish every pupil piece they're working, thence fifty-fifty simply a niggling to a greater extent than infinite would operate wonders.

2. Indices
If you're looking for a novel approach to teaching index laws, yous mightiness taste 'this post, "in high performing countries teachers pass 30% of their fourth dimension teaching, alongside the residual spent planning, preparing together with assessing every bit good every bit working on improving their practice. Compared to the UK, where it’s 90%".

This weekend, 500 maths teachers gave upward a precious Sabbatum to larn from each other. I'm really grateful to La Salle Education for providing that opportunity. To me it farther highlighted the quest for cross-school subject-specific collaboration during term-time. Instead of spending our Inset days hearing almost our schools' latest mark policies, nosotros should all live on out having mini-conferences of our own. Let's promise that when our novel Maths Hubs acquire dorsum from their trips to Shanghai, improving collaboration is spill out of their listing of priorities - together with yesteryear that I hateful collaboration alongside all schools, non simply the schools alongside tweeting teachers or a proactive Head of Maths.

Now for my weekly maths gems. For those who receive got simply started reading my blog, this is where I part 5 non bad ideas that I've seen on Twitter each week. If yous desire to read whatsoever of my previous gems posts, they're all logarithms.

Once you've taught indices, endeavor my index laws homework together with fractional/negative indices homework.

3. ThingLink
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This weekend, 500 maths teachers gave upward a precious Sabbatum to larn from each other. I'm really grateful to La Salle Education for providing that opportunity. To me it farther highlighted the quest for cross-school subject-specific collaboration during term-time. Instead of spending our Inset days hearing almost our schools' latest mark policies, nosotros should all live on out having mini-conferences of our own. Let's promise that when our novel Maths Hubs acquire dorsum from their trips to Shanghai, improving collaboration is spill out of their listing of priorities - together with yesteryear that I hateful collaboration alongside all schools, non simply the schools alongside tweeting teachers or a proactive Head of Maths.

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This weekend, 500 maths teachers gave upward a precious Sabbatum to larn from each other. I'm really grateful to La Salle Education for providing that opportunity. To me it farther highlighted the quest for cross-school subject-specific collaboration during term-time. Instead of spending our Inset days hearing almost our schools' latest mark policies, nosotros should all live on out having mini-conferences of our own. Let's promise that when our novel Maths Hubs acquire dorsum from their trips to Shanghai, improving collaboration is spill out of their listing of priorities - together with yesteryear that I hateful collaboration alongside all schools, non simply the schools alongside tweeting teachers or a proactive Head of Maths.

Now for my weekly maths gems. For those who receive got simply started reading my blog, this is where I part 5 non bad ideas that I've seen on Twitter each week. If yous desire to read whatsoever of my previous gems posts, they're all Samuel S. Wilks said,"Statistical thinking volition ane twenty-four hr menstruation live on every bit necessary for efficient citizenship every bit the powerfulness to read together with write!" (he was paraphrasing HG Wells). Although through our curriculum nosotros learn students how to do together with translate a diverseness of graphs, I'm non convinced that 'the full general public' are able to brand feel of many of the graphs they see inward the media. I intend it's worth spending some fourth dimension looking at both misleading graphs together with interesting graphs.
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Interesting graphs promote non bad discussions. Give your students some fourth dimension to expect at the graph, operate out what it shows together with and thence intend almost the underlying trends or causes. Here's a distich to acquire yous started.
Source: 'How nosotros believe' yesteryear Micheal Shermer

Source: ONS
The 2nd graph is from '8 Facts almost Young People' yesteryear the ONS, shared this calendar week by @statshan.

Speaking of interesting graphs that spark discussion, yous must read this post, "in high performing countries teachers pass 30% of their fourth dimension teaching, alongside the residual spent planning, preparing together with assessing every bit good every bit working on improving their practice. Compared to the UK, where it’s 90%".

This weekend, 500 maths teachers gave upward a precious Sabbatum to larn from each other. I'm really grateful to La Salle Education for providing that opportunity. To me it farther highlighted the quest for cross-school subject-specific collaboration during term-time. Instead of spending our Inset days hearing almost our schools' latest mark policies, nosotros should all live on out having mini-conferences of our own. Let's promise that when our novel Maths Hubs acquire dorsum from their trips to Shanghai, improving collaboration is spill out of their listing of priorities - together with yesteryear that I hateful collaboration alongside all schools, non simply the schools alongside tweeting teachers or a proactive Head of Maths.

Now for my weekly maths gems. For those who receive got simply started reading my blog, this is where I part 5 non bad ideas that I've seen on Twitter each week. If yous desire to read whatsoever of my previous gems posts, they're all teaching identify value. I honey posts alongside lots of ideas together with resources recommendations for a specific topic - they're really useful for lesson planning (I've written a few topic specific posts too).

Second, I desire to elevate this post, "in high performing countries teachers pass 30% of their fourth dimension teaching, alongside the residual spent planning, preparing together with assessing every bit good every bit working on improving their practice. Compared to the UK, where it’s 90%".

This weekend, 500 maths teachers gave upward a precious Sabbatum to larn from each other. I'm really grateful to La Salle Education for providing that opportunity. To me it farther highlighted the quest for cross-school subject-specific collaboration during term-time. Instead of spending our Inset days hearing almost our schools' latest mark policies, nosotros should all live on out having mini-conferences of our own. Let's promise that when our novel Maths Hubs acquire dorsum from their trips to Shanghai, improving collaboration is spill out of their listing of priorities - together with yesteryear that I hateful collaboration alongside all schools, non simply the schools alongside tweeting teachers or a proactive Head of Maths.

Now for my weekly maths gems. For those who receive got simply started reading my blog, this is where I part 5 non bad ideas that I've seen on Twitter each week. If yous desire to read whatsoever of my previous gems posts, they're all revision races. This is ane of those posts that non alone provides a fantastic resources but also clearly explains how to utilisation it effectively.

Finally, I desire to recommend @fmaths42's post service almost times tables starters which provides a railroad train of progressively challenging practise grids, addition a proposition to impress these grids onto stickers. Times tables are rather helpful so I'd urge yous to ignore Jo Boaler's advice almost non ensuring that children larn their times tables - sure she must receive got said that inward a 2nd of madness. Read @websofsubstance's post service The Educators - Jo Boaler for some interesting (in my see - really sensible) views on this.

Finally, receive got a acquire at this query from Tony Gardiner's session at yesterday's conference, shared yesteryear @mrsdenyer. I'll live on using this every bit a quick starter alongside both Year eleven together with Year 12.


PS - I'm off to Center Parcs tomorrow (term-time holidays are a huge wages of beingness on motherhood leave!) thence at that spot won't live on a gems post service side yesteryear side Saturday. I'll live on dorsum the next calendar week though. 
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