Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #145

I have been marking all weekend and (for as soon as!) I’m actually happy with how my Key Stage 3 college students have carried out of their finish of yr assessments. I’ve modified my method to Key Stage 3 educating fairly considerably over the previous few years – I’ll talk about this in my upcoming mathsconf speak.

My college modified the way in which we do finish of yr assessments this yr, utilizing single tier assessments in Yr 7, 8 and 9 for the primary time. By having each scholar in annually group do the identical evaluation, we now have constant, top quality information to assist us decide subsequent yr’s groupings. I used to be all the time actually sad utilizing two tiers of evaluation at Key Stage 3 as I felt it led to a scarcity of mobility (i.e. college students within the ‘basis’ courses getting caught there). We had been nervous that the one tier papers could be tough to write down, however it has labored very well. The vary of attainment in a complete college is huge, so assessments should be accessible but comprise the correct amount of problem.

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Did you catch my final two weblog posts?

Over Might half-term I really managed to fulfill up with a few of my favorite Twitter maths lecturers in individual! It was beautiful. I do know we’re all a great distance from being ‘again to regular’ however this felt like a step in the fitting course. A couple of of us have tickets to go to ResearchED in September – I actually hope it goes forward! I’ve missed in-person conferences a lot.

I’ve additionally booked tickets to see mathematical poet Harry Baker in October. He was the after-dinner speaker on the MEI Convention a few years in the past and I cherished it, so I’m very eager to see him once more. He is additionally accessible to go to colleges.

In different information, on the finish of Might Ofsted revealed their arithmetic analysis evaluation. There’s loads to learn however it’s undoubtedly price taking the time to take action, significantly should you lead a maths division.

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I will go away you with this graphic exhibiting the evolution of the phrase “hundred” in Indo-European languages, which is from this stunning weblog by @JakubMarian.