Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #172

July 8, 2023

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Welcome to my 172^nd gems publish. That is the place I share a few of the newest information, concepts and assets for maths academics.1. Snakes

I like this assortment of ‘Snakes’ duties from @nathanday314. These are sensible. Accessible however packed filled with depth and problem, I believe this can be a actually participating activity design. Discover them on interwovenmaths.com.

3. Casio Suggestions

Thanks to @cclay8 for sharing a collection of calculator ideas for the brand new Casio 83GTCW. Now that the 83GTX has been discontinued, we’ll begin seeing much more of the brand new classwiz fashions in our lecture rooms subsequent yr. It is vital that academics know the way to use them. I lately purchased a brand new calculator for everybody on my group and will likely be working some CPD on this in September.

I like this tip about getting a decimal reply with out having to make use of the format menu:

Clare continues to make these playing cards and movies and is importing them right here. What a star.

4. Duties

And @draustinmaths continues to share new assets on her web site together with some latest duties on Distance Time Graphs.

5. Circle Theorems
I beloved educating Certificates in Additional Maths this yr and each closing examination papers have been wonderful – effectively completed AQA! There was a superb Circle Theorems query on Paper 2. I do not assume it was probably the most troublesome query on the paper (I believed Query 17 was trickier) but it surely actually acquired all of them pondering. @MrSMaths11 has created an analogous circle theorems query right here:

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Thanks to everybody who made GCSE and A degree assets to assist academics and college students through the examination interval. It is throughout now and we’re eagerly awaiting outcomes.

I had a good time at #mathsconf32 a few weeks in the past. It was pretty to meet up with a great deal of academics I have never seen in ages, and I met a number of pretty new individuals too. My presentation was on ‘Problem with out Acceleration’ with a give attention to indices. The PowerPoint has been despatched out to convention delegates.

A number of days later I spent a day on the MEI Convention the place I delivered a workshop on activity design. The MEI Convention by no means fails to impress me. It was wonderful.

This summer season I am going to spend a while planning the course that I will be working within the Autumn time period with Craig Barton. We’re simply engaged on venue preparations and programmes, but it surely appears like it’s going to 18th October within the South, nineteenth October within the Midlands and twentieth October within the North. Watch this area for extra info!

Lastly, I am going to go away you with this picture shared by @fakehistoryhunt. I do not know the unique supply. It could be helpful in a lesson on extrapolation.