A components sheet was once offered at GCSE however was eliminated in 2017, which means our 12 months 11 college students will not have used one earlier than. However this 12 months now we have the short-term introduction of the a lot criticised ‘
examination aids‘, so
@taylorda01 has made a useful useful resource ‘
Evaluation Support Checks 2022‘ the place college students can practise making use of a components sheet.
5. Venn Paint
I have never taught Venn Diagrams in 5 years and subsequent week I occur to be instructing this matter to each 12 months 9 and 12 months 10. I have been Venn sources, and I found this magnificence from Transum which I’ve now added to my useful resource library.
Venn Paint shouldn’t be new, and it seems that a lot of academics already use it at each Key Stage 4 and 5, however I do know a lot of my readers will not have seen it earlier than. There are three completely different ranges on this interactive job, and the ultimate degree is fairly difficult.
In different Venn information, I used among the glorious duties from Craig Barton’s
mathsvenns.com once I was instructing sequences to 12 months 8 final week. They’re such good duties for prompting wealthy mathematical dialogue. See my
Twitter thread for extra on this.
Replace
I had a garbage begin to the summer season time period. My entire household had a illness bug, and on the identical time I had Covid. Fortunately we’re all higher now. I’ve had some beautiful deliveries within the publish to cheer me up, together with Ben Orlin’s (large) new e-book
Math Video games with Dangerous Drawings which is an excellent and entertaining information to maths video games.
I additionally obtained my
Maths Mr Males pin badges from Ed Southall. The Ramanujan character has at all times been my favorite and I used to be very happy once I wore the pin to high school and a pupil requested me who it was, giving me the chance to excitedly inform her all about Ramanujan.
Right here are some things you may need missed:
In the meantime, my weblog had its eighth birthday which implies it is time for an additional one in all my annual Gem Awards posts. I have been engaged on this for a few weeks and hope to publish it quickly!
Conferences
I had a improbable time on the MA Convention over Easter and learnt plenty of issues that might be helpful once I begin my new Head of Maths position in September. I attended a great deal of nice workshops and was significantly happy to get the prospect to see Chris Smith’s plenary. He is an excellent speaker – extremely entertaining.
Shout out to the group who had been out the evening earlier than the convention – what a humorous evening!
I am actually wanting ahead to the 2 summer season time period conferences I am attending.
The primary one is
#mathsconf29 which is happening in Kettering (the house of mathsconf!) on Saturday twenty fifth June. I’ve already written my workshop – I can not wait to current this one.
I’m additionally delighted that my faculty have agreed to let me go to the
MEI Convention which is on Thursday thirtieth June and Friday 1st July on the College of Keele. I am talking on the second day. I usually pay for all my very own conference-going however I used to be courageous and requested that my faculty give me the break day and pay for the primary day, and so they mentioned sure! I bloody love the MEI Convention, and am significantly excited to see poet Harry Baker on the convention dinner.
So two conferences in a single week in June. This makes me glad. I hope to see a lot of you there.
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