Welcome to my 167th gems submit. That is the place I share among the newest information, concepts and assets for maths academics.
1. Polypad
I’ve blogged about Polypad earlier than, and used it myself in a lesson on nets final week. My college students have been suitably impressed! Not too long ago there’s been a collection of tweets about some actually cool stuff that Polypad can do – these are positively value a glance. Click on on the tweets beneath to see the animations in motion, and take a look at @MathigonOrg‘s feed for extra like this. I notably like what you are able to do with components.
Visually fixing equations w/fractions as coefficients in @MathigonOrg #PolyPad. https://t.co/vgrvly7vVK @desmosclassroom @Amplify #math #MTBoS #ITeachMath #algebra pic.twitter.com/2bXs2Gk6fP
— Tim Brzezinski (@TimBrzezinski) February 17, 2023
@mathsmrgordon has shared a set of fingertip information paperwork for Basis Tier GCSE. These are like self-quizzable information organisers, much like my Knoweldge Quiz books, however with calculations in addition to factual recall.
4. Kinematic Graphs
I taught tangent to a curve and space underneath a graph to Yr 11 a few weeks in the past and noticed these two tweets about kinematic graphs. These are useful for each maths and physics academics.
I am a sucker for a reasonably graphic – and the way fairly are these! https://t.co/epPwAsVG2j
So many fab comics on right here for Mechanics and Physics #mathsTLP pic.twitter.com/R2q8KbvnpH— Christine Norledge (@MissNorledge) January 29, 2023
Created this desk fill for velocity-time graphs pic.twitter.com/fecWPsOCGW
— Miss E (@Miss_R_Em) August 25, 2022
Thanks to @KarenCampe for sharing her good weblog submit ‘Similar and Completely different‘. This submit is a few pondering technique Karen makes use of for dialogue in her classes during which she asks college students to match and analyse options of two mathematical conditions. Listed below are just a few examples.
The primary reveals two subtraction issues: 5 – 2 (prime) and a couple of – 5 (backside).
And this one is for gradient and y intercept:
And this is one on simultaneous equations:
And one on notation:
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My college lastly had its much-awaited first go to from Ofsted. They did a deep dive in maths. I am actually pleased with my fantastic crew – they’re all superstars. Here is seven tenths of my division celebrating the top of a difficult week:
Over half-term I used to be busier than typical on my weblog, publishing three posts:
As we head into Spring, there’s masses to look ahead to. #mathsconf31 in Bracknell can be nice – I am very a lot wanting ahead to presenting on Pythagoras which is considered one of my favorite subjects. La Salle continues to be in search of presenters for this convention and I strongly encourage academics to submit workshop proposals. I am going to even be taking forty Yr 10 college students to Maths in Motion on 7 March which can be good. And I will be going to the Christopher Zeeman Medal Lectures and Ceremony on the Royal Society on 22 March. The Spring time period ends with the Joint Convention of the Arithmetic Topic Associations at Warwick College. I like a residential campus convention! So there’s a lot of enjoyable stuff arising. On the flip facet, over the subsequent two weeks I am going to have 127 Yr 11 mock papers to mark, which is a bit much less enjoyable… I am positive a lot of you’re in the identical boat.
I am going to depart you with a set of GCSE revision memes (first shared by Paul Collins years in the past – and I’ve added some extra). We have put just a few up within the maths hall within the run as much as mocks to lighten the temper and get individuals smiling. Remember, in case you’re in search of revision assets for Yr 11, there’s an intensive assortment right here.
