Welcome to my 162nd gems put up. That is the place I share among the newest information, concepts and sources for maths lecturers.
1. Scaffolded Duties
Thanks to @JaggersMaths for sharing a extremely accessible Pythagoras process with plenty of scaffolding.
And this is an extract from one other process which is structured to make it each accessible and difficult. Due to @scott_math83 for this set of chance tree questions.
2. Quantity Etymology Video
3. Angles
Instructor and process designer @SegarRogers shared a set of intelligent angles duties designed to provide college students a deep understanding of complementary angles.
He tweeted his duties right here, right here and right here.
4. Indices
5. Fractions
@robertkaplinsky shared a problem from openmiddle.com which may be appropriate for Yr 7s doing fractions. This pretty process is written by @IanKerr_math.
I really like September – instructing new lessons is so thrilling – but it surely’s at all times manic and exhausting is not it? I have been battling combined emotions in my new position. I am loving being Head of Maths once more – I’ve achieved this job earlier than so I really feel very assured within the position, plus I get to spend all my time specializing in the factor I am most obsessed with (maths!). However on the similar time it is irritating for me to step down from the senior management workforce after three years of placing my coronary heart and soul into constructing a brand new college. I hold seeing issues that want fixing or issues I’d have achieved otherwise and I’ve to maintain quiet as a result of it is not my job anymore! I will get used to it. I have to hold reminding myself of all the advantages of adjusting position – I now not spend two hours a day on methods and spreadsheet work, as a result of they’ve now employed a knowledge officer to do this stuff. As a substitute, I have been swamped with Yr 11s asking for assist with maths at each alternative (we have not had Yr 11 on this college earlier than, so it is a novelty for us!). So I am nonetheless simply as busy as I was, however I feel my experience is being put to higher use now. I would weblog individually about among the issues I’ve already achieved in my capability of Head of Maths, and among the issues I’ve deliberate, as this would possibly assist help new Heads of Maths. Watch this house.
One other factor I am massively having fun with this 12 months is instructing AQA’s Certificates in Additional Maths GCSE. Six years in the past, my timetable was primarily A degree. I now have not taught A degree for thus lengthy, I might forgotten how a lot I take pleasure in it. Certificates in Additional Maths is not A degree, however I am instructing stuff like Binomial Enlargement and Trig Identities, which I really like. I’ve a category of 31 eager mathematicians who meet after college each Wednesday. It’ll be a rush to get by way of the content material – this week we have been performing some work on precise trig values and I found that their fluency in working with surds is not fairly the place I anticipated it to be – however I feel I’m going to utterly love instructing this course.
Listed below are some issues from Twitter that you just might need missed within the final couple of weeks:
- @mathsaurus shared his free on-line course to assist college students put together for the UKMT Senior Maths Problem which take locations on 4th October 2022
- @Ridermeister shared his downside fixing booklet containing 151 issues geared toward Yr 13s who wish to put together for a college interview in Arithmetic.
- @PiXLMattTheApp shared a instrument to create a bespoke maths publication in thirty seconds! With this instrument you may create a publication that may very well be despatched dwelling to folks or used as a kind time exercise.
In different information, I cherished sporting my new mathsy Popsy gown ‘Marva‘ in school final week. I’ll put on it once more on our Open Day in a few weeks. Colleagues hold asking me what number of maths attire I’ve. 5! One for day-after-day of the week.
I sit up for seeing you all at among the conferences developing within the Autumn time period. I will be doing a brand new ‘Matters in Depth’ presentation on space at #mathsconf30 in Manchester on fifteenth October (I hope! I’ve booked a practice to Manchester, however because of points with the practice operator, there are presently no trains dwelling on Saturday or Sunday. That is worrying!). I am additionally talking on the Pixl Maths Convention at The Oval on twelfth October. And in the event you work for Harris, I am talking about Key Stage 3 problem on the Harris Federation October Convention on the ExCeL Centre on 14th October. Whereas scripting this I’ve realised that I’ve unintentionally agreed to do three convention displays in a single week! Oops – sounds intense! Fortunately I will probably be on half-term the next week to recuperate.
I will go away you with this surdic expression to simplify – your GCSE college students would possibly take pleasure in this. This was shared by @mathisstillfun, an amazing account to observe for normal maths issues.
