Welcome to my 150th gems publish. That is the place I share a few of the newest information, concepts and sources for maths lecturers.
1. Duties
I’ve noticed a number of nice duties on Twitter just lately. Listed below are three of them:
@canning_mrmaths shared a trigonometry process, primarily based on an thought by @DanielPearcy.
2. Mrdaymaths.com
@nathanday314 shares improbable sources on Twitter so it is nice to see that he is launched an internet site the place we are able to discover them multi functional place. Try mrdaymaths.com to obtain his shows, duties, sources and displays.
3. Angles and Ratios Interweaved
I like these intelligent quadratics questions from @boss_maths.
@PiXLMattTheApp is at all times sharing free instruments and sources for maths lecturers. His newest is an on-line instrument which lets you create a pupil workbook from a QLA.
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Over half-term (which seems like months in the past!) I wrote three weblog posts:
Talking of the MA, did you see that they’ve made the newest concern of their journal Arithmetic in College freely obtainable to learn on-line? I am an enormous fan of this journal and at all times look ahead to receiving my copy within the publish.
It was a busy week for me at work final week. Certainly one of my massive duties is to run the Key Stage 4 Choices course of. I launched it final week, operating occasions for each dad and mom and college students. On the similar time, my college was handled to a MAT assessment (mainly a Mocksted, although we’re not meant to name it that…). This was nerve-racking, primarily as a result of we’re all 100% certain that our faculty is excellent – in each sense of the phrase – and we actually needed to make it possible for the inspectors noticed that. Your entire maths division made me immensely proud, as did my 12 months 9 class (I used to be noticed educating them some experimental concepts that I picked up on the final mathsconf… It was a bit dangerous for me to go forward with that lesson however fortunately it went properly! Phew).
This can be a milestone weblog publish for me. Once I wrote my fiftieth gems publish I used to be offered with a particular cake at a convention (thanks Julia et al!). Once I wrote my one hundredth gems publish I recorded a particular podcast with Craig Barton, and Chris Smith despatched me a trophy which I nonetheless proudly show on my bookcase. Immediately I’ve reached 150 gems posts. Have you ever learn all of them?! You need to! There is a gems index right here.
By the way in which, I do know folks love the gems posts, that are packed filled with different folks’s nice concepts, however I do additionally weblog about my very own concepts too! The truth is I’ve written 274 posts which are not gems posts, and the total archive is right here. One other milestone I just lately handed (however failed to note on the time!) was my ten millionth web site go to. Thanks to all my readers for his or her assist. I’m immensely joyful that my useful resource libraries save folks time, and that my weblog posts present lecturers with inspiration and concepts. Lecturers who go to resourceaholic.com have a tendency to take action frequently, so I have to be doing one thing proper.
Lastly, a private milestone for me – my eldest daughter turned ten. A decade of parenting. 💖
I am going to go away you with this tweet which made me snigger. I’m wondering what my college students would write down if I requested them the identical query.
On yesterday’s quiz, only for enjoyable, I ended with the request “within the spirit of Halloween, present the scariest math mistake you’ll be able to.” I wasn’t disenchanted by a few of the pupil responses! pic.twitter.com/LV50BpE1us
— Chris Luzniak (@cluzniak) October 27, 2021
