Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #176

November 25, 2023

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Welcome to my 176^th gems publish. That is the place I share a number of the newest information, concepts and assets for maths lecturers.1. 1st Class Maths

1stclassmaths.com has all the time been filled with extremely prime quality assets, and the current additions are not any exception. The GCSE revision assets (designed for each Edexcel and AQA) include unique GCSE-style questions that are very properly written.

I additionally love the presentation of query frequency information on the Matter Look web page. There’s a lot attention-grabbing evaluation right here!

2. MathsBot Video games

I am having fun with @StudyMaths‘ revival of previous Flash Maths video games. For instance Discover the Primes is admittedly enjoyable and straightforward to make use of. I get pleasure from enjoying this with my 12 months 7 daughter! It’s kind of extra accessible for her age than IsThisPrime? which can also be superior.

I used to be all the time a giant fan of Flash Maths again within the day. My favourites had been Form Shoot and Reminiscence Maths, which guests used to play on Open Evenings at my final college.

3. Duties

Listed here are some nice duties I’ve seen on Twitter over the previous couple of weeks:

4. Dr Frost

It is nice to see a number of newly improved assets being printed by Dr Frost’s crew. For instance @nathanday314 has created wonderful slides and workouts for angles in parallel traces.

5. Perform Machines

PolyPad from @mathigon has an excellent new operate machine software. It’s extremely straightforward to make use of and a improbable strategy to illustrate composite and inverse capabilities. Have a play with it. For me it is completely timed as I will be educating this subject to 12 months 11 subsequent week.

Maths Week

We ran a Maths Week at my college final week (not in the identical week as Maths Week England, as a result of that clashes with Anti-Bullying Week). It was a really profitable occasion with a great deal of engagement from college students throughout all yr teams. We designed it to be excessive influence with out an extreme workload, with a number of alternatives for all college students to earn Home Factors (not simply the perfect mathematicians).

We ran a Trainer Treasure Hunt utilizing the improbable assets created by @missradders. We had over 170 entries and it was fantastic to see the extent of enthusiasm amongst college students. They liked it! We will certainly make this an annual occasion.
We ran a day by day puzzle, which we displayed round college and in tutor time notices. We had been delighted by the extent of engagement. It was such a pleasure to see college students crowded round puzzles in corridors discussing their concepts and options. There’s an instance beneath (many college students and lecturers struggled with the third sequence, although it is splendidly easy if you spot it – I received it from a Full Maths convention!).
We had a Sparx XP competitors and we had been shocked by how a lot Sparx utilization elevated in consequence!
Our fantastic librarian arrange a particular show of maths books within the library and promoted them all through the week.
I delivered an meeting to every yr group on ‘How I Fell in Love With Maths’, the concept being that sooner or later they’re going to discover one thing that they’re so keen about that they need to discuss it on a regular basis. My meeting centred round Fermat’s Final Theorem, which I believe is a narrative everybody ought to be informed. I additionally wore a unique maths gown for every meeting!

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In the event you did not see the information about this – GCSE lecturers ought to be conscious that 12 months 11 would possibly get the components sheet of their exams this summer season. This comes as a shock, however an excellent one – although I believe the design of the components sheet is poor, I am in favour of formulae being supplied with exams (yearly, not simply in ‘covid years’). The session closes on thirtieth November.
Sunday twenty sixth November is your final probability to submit a proposal to talk on the Joint Convention of Mathematical Topic Associations 2024 which takes place within the Easter holidays.