Resourceaholic: #5 Maths Gems 181

September 22, 2024

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Welcome to my 181^st gems submit. That is the place I share a few of the newest information, concepts and sources for maths lecturers.

1. A stage
I’ve seen quite a few improbable new A stage sources lately:

Thanks to everybody for his or her beneficiant sharing!

Take a look at her web site for extra like this.

3. Reminiscence Maths
@studymaths has up to date the basic ‘Reminiscence Maths‘ recreation. Now you can generate your personal. We used to make use of this at my final college on Open Night – dad and mom, kids and lecturers could be given a mini whiteboard and instructed to attract a grid. Then they’d collect spherical to put in writing solutions on their whiteboards because the questions flashed up. It was at all times a number of enjoyable – everybody was at all times excited to see who could be the primary to finish their grid.

There’s a variety of video games and starters to take a look at on mathsbot.com.

4. Quadrilaterals

Over summer season @EmathsUK shared a very nice quadrilaterals job that I’ve not seen earlier than. College students are requested to provide you with appropriate inquiries to populate the movement chat precisely after which identify the quadrilaterals. The duty might be downloaded from emaths.co.uk.

5. Circles
@AMercerMaths made a stunning “Generally, At all times, By no means” on components of a circle which supplies a number of alternatives for reasoning.

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I have never written a gems submit since July so this is a fast replace on what I bought as much as over summer season.

In July @MeganGuinan1 went to drinks to rejoice Matt Parker’s e-book Love Triangle changing into a bestseller. We met essentially the most fascinating folks at these drinks, from zoologists to linguists.

And I ended the summer season with a visit to Belfast the place I had a improbable expertise presenting to an exquisite group of maths lecturers from the West Belfast Space Studying Neighborhood.

I wrote three weblog posts throughout August that you just may need missed:

The beginning of time period has hit like a sledgehammer, prefer it does yearly, and I already really feel like I am at peak exhaustion. I’ve 33 college students in my 12 months 12 A stage maths class, however solely sufficient desks for 32. 12 months 12 have neither textbooks nor gadgets as a result of we do not have the price range to purchase both. I even have 27 college students in my 12 months 12 Additional Maths class which is a shock to the system after having solely six final yr! It is going to take a little bit of adjusting however we’ll make it work. Other than all that, we appear to be settling into our new college yr – in my final weblog submit ‘September Routines‘ I shared a few of the issues we now have put in place within the first few weeks of time period. We had been very completely happy that over 100 college students turned as much as our first Papers Society – this bodes properly. I am additionally very a lot having fun with educating our new choice block class in 12 months 11 – educating Degree 2 Additional Maths in timetabled classes for the primary time is a delight.

I hope to see a number of you attend #mathsconf36 in Sheffield subsequent month. I will likely be sharing some insights on issues college students have to look out for at GCSE.