Welcome to my 186
th gems put up. That is the place I share a few of the newest information, concepts and assets for maths academics.
1. 1st Class Maths
One among my favorite web sites,
1stclassmaths.com, has revealed a brand new set of
apply papers – Larger and Basis Paper 1 within the fashion of each AQA and Edexcel. Extra papers will probably be added throughout this summer season’s examination season.
I really like the standard of all the first Class Maths apply papers and assets. The questions are all unique – these should not simply collections of previous paper questions. At my faculty we at all times make good use of those assets in our GCSE revision classes.
To present you an concept of the standard of the first Class Maths papers, listed here are a few the more difficult questions from the AQA-style larger paper:
2. OCR Puzzle of the Week
Each Friday OCR share a maths puzzle on social media utilizing the hashtag
#OCRMathspuzzle. I final featured these in a Gems put up three years in the past (
Gems 154). Listed below are some current examples.
By the way in which, should you’re new to my weblog then you may want to check out my
again catalogue of gems posts. These posts are packed stuffed with inspiration for each new and skilled maths academics – they function over ten years’ value of assets and concepts.
3. Dr Austin
Thanks to Amanda Austin for persevering with to share so many new assets on draustinmaths.com. Her newest assets embrace duties for quadratic inequalities, set notation, algebraic proof, equations, finishing the sq. and proportion.
5. Classes from Dr Frost
The crew at Dr Frost proceed to work on upgrading the PowerPoints on
drfrost.org. These PowerPoints and accompanying assets can be downloaded without cost and canopy a variety of matters from main via to A stage.
My pal
@PaulRodrigo2718 is on the crew of authors – his wonderful set of classes on
bearings was not too long ago revealed. His slides are stuffed with intelligent explanations and animations. This slide on airport runways does a much better job of explaining runway numbers than I’ve accomplished up to now (obtain the useful resource so you’ll be able to see the animations).
If you happen to go to the Dr Frost
assets web page then you definitely’ll see an inventory of classes not too long ago revealed. Listed below are a pair extra extracts:
A stage useful resource
To be used in my current Yr 12 classes I created a booklet for instructing Binomial Speculation Testing. There’s plenty of scaffolding on this. You possibly can obtain it from
TES or discover it in my
Statistics Useful resource Library.
Mathsconf37
I am actually wanting ahead to
#mathsconf37 on fifteenth March in Sheffield. If you happen to’ve not been to a mathsconf earlier than then this could be a good time to attempt it out. It is at all times very inspiring to spend the day with maths academics. Come to my workshop ‘Enjoyable with Factorising’ should you like a little bit of algebra.
Talking of conferences, I attended the Harris Federation Maths Convention on an Inset Day final week. The superb Emma McCrea did the keynote, and I loved a session on A stage drawback fixing with Sinead Vaughan from the AMSP and a session on the Giant Information Set with Jocelyn Stockbridge from Edexcel. This is a photograph of me with the members of my fantastic crew who attended the convention.
I am going to go away you with this graphic, created by
@elephanteating. I knew {that a} pie chart was a Camembert Diagram in French however I did not learn about the remainder! I really like this.
A Fashionable Greek Tragedy. Rosie’s #BookReview Of Gods And Vengeance by Kelley Heckart @CelticChick #fridayreads #BookTwitter #booktwt
