Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #174

September 10, 2023

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Welcome to my 174^th gems submit. That is the place I share a number of the newest information, concepts and sources for maths lecturers.

1. Menu Maths

I noticed a tweet about #menumath final week. These beautiful duties have been round for years however I realised that I’ve by no means featured them in a gems submit.

This concept from @NatBanting is designed to generate ‘low flooring, excessive ceiling’ challenges. Go to natbanting.com/menu-math to see the gathering of duties from numerous authors. In these duties, college students are given a ‘menu’ (a set of constraints) and so they should create an object (e.g. an equation, a quantity or a form) that satisfies these constraints.

Lecturers could make this job accessible by asking college students to design objects that fulfill just one or two constraints, however can simply add problem by asking college students to fulfill extra constraints. College students can be requested to analyse which constraints pair properly collectively and which can not pair collectively.

Listed below are a few examples:

2. Rehearsal Strips

Due to @mrmorleymaths for sharing a brand new assortment of duties impressed by Dr Austin’s follow strips. These Rehearsal Strips are designed to encourage rehearsal of taught content material, but additionally enable college students the chance to motive and clarify, and take a look at their understanding of the subject by making use of it to a different space of maths.

3. Eedi

@mrbartonmaths has launched a model new assortment of sources for each matter in maths. This free assortment consists of diagnostic questions, movies, fluency follow, clever follow and problem-solving questions. To entry these supplies, login at eedi.com (DQ logins will work right here) and go to the Curriculum Mapping web page. Click on ‘View the gathering’, discover a matter you’re instructing quickly and click on on the Eedi hyperlink.

Diagnostic Questions have all the time been sensible for figuring out and understanding misconceptions, so it is unbelievable to see them supplemented with all these additional instructing sources.

4. A Stage Information Organisers

Due to @mrsd_maths for sharing a superb assortment of A stage information organisers. They are often downloaded from TES. I believe these shall be actually useful for revision.

5. Fraction Bar

MathsPad has shared a free Interactive Fraction Bar Instrument for locating fractions of an quantity. The software allows you to change fraction households with the identical quantity, so for instance, when you’ve got already discovered a 3rd of the quantity, you may exhibit tips on how to use this to discover a sixth. You too can begin with totally different fractions, use totally different items (cash and metric items) and lengthen the bar to indicate fractions larger than one entire.

Marvellous Maths 3
Tickets are promoting quick for Marvellous Maths 3 – a full day of high quality maths CPD, offered by Craig Barton and myself. We’re happening tour with this course: on 18th October we’ll be at my beautiful faculty in Sutton, South London. Then on nineteenth October we’ll be at Worcester Racecourse, and on twentieth October we’ll be in Craig’s hometown of Bolton on the Science and Know-how Centre. Will probably be great to be in a room stuffed with maths lecturers three days in a row! E book now at mathscpd.weebly.com.

AQA Webinar

I am trying ahead to collaborating in AQA’s free webinar at 4pm on twenty first September. I will be talking about Stage 2 Additional Maths and Andrew Taylor shall be talking in regards to the Summer time ’23 examination sequence. There shall be a dwell Q&A. You’ll be able to enroll right here.

Calculators

There’s loads of negativity about Casio’s new calculator mannequin, however we do must discover ways to use it now that the previous mannequin has been discontinued. Thanks to my colleague Morgan for offering me with a superb poster for my classroom wall.

Take a look at Casio’s upcoming calculator webinars, and up to date weblog posts on calculators from @cclay8.

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Listed below are some stuff you might need missed:

@MissNorledge has created a searchable database of all Edexcel GCSE maths previous paper questions (June 2017+). It is very fast and quick access to GCSE questions by matter, together with mark schemes. Simply kind in a subject identify and it takes you straight to the related web page!
Competition of the Spoken Nerd are performing An Night of Pointless Element in London in October and November, with the occasions being dwell streamed for these unable to attend in particular person. I’ve seen a few Competition of the Spoken Nerd performances prior to now and vastly advocate them to maths lecturers!
Chris Smith’s glorious weekly maths publication is again – if you wish to subscribe, electronic mail Chris at aap03102@gmail.com.
In time for the brand new faculty yr, the creators of my favorite sport Nerdle (which I’ve performed for 545 days in a row!) have launched ‘Tremendous Nerdle’. This permits lecturers to customize Nerdle video games for his or her college students.
The annual Massive MathsJam takes place on 11 – 12 November. It’s a weekend of leisure arithmetic, with cool folks and attention-grabbing maths!
I believed some lecturers would possibly wish to see my up to date posters which I made on Canva. I blogged about these initiatives final yr. The primary distinction this yr is that we have modified the identify ‘Maths Clinic’ to ‘Maths Additional’ in response to an concept from a neighborhood Head of Maths who prompt that college students may not reply properly to the time period clinic.

Lastly, thanks to James Greenland for sending me a stunning e book of Further Arithmetic O Stage Papers from 1968 – 1971. I’ve shared an instance beneath. I prefer it that college students had some alternative over which questions they answered. Right here I’ve simply shared the pure sections: there have been mechanics and statistics sections within the examination too.