Resourceaholic: Gem Awards 2022

May 27, 2022

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Final week it was resourceaholic.com’s eighth birthday! It is turn out to be a convention for me to mark the anniversary of my weblog by publishing an annual ‘Gem Awards’ put up. Right here I look again in any respect the concepts I’ve shared in my gems posts over the past yr and select a few of my favourites.

1. Arithmetic Award
The attractive web site Mathigon gained Finest Web site in my first ever Gems Awards again in in 2015. This time I am giving it an award in my Arithmetic Class, which has beforehand been gained by Nicholas Rougeux for his beautiful interactive recreation of Byrne’s 1847 version of Euclid’s Parts.

The 2 options that make it worthy of my Arithmetic Award are its Timeline of Arithmetic and its Almanac of Fascinating Numbers. There’s even a timeline scavenger hunt – a extremely well-designed exercise the place college students can discover the historical past of maths. This sort of factor is ideal for extra-curricular maths golf equipment. It is also nice for academics seeking to increase their topic information.

Extremely recommended on this class are:

2. Most Helpful Useful resource Award

By no means has a useful resource saved me a lot time as @gcse_math‘s collated GCSE questions. I featured this useful resource in Gems 155. The important thing distinction between this and related assets is that it contains questions from three awarding our bodies, which means there’s an abundance of examination questions for every matter. They’re very well organised, which means it takes seconds to seek out what I am on the lookout for. I am discovering this useful resource extremely useful when planning my GCSE classes, and when making finish of unit assessments. I am going to additionally make use of it when planning CPD classes. Thanks to @gcse_math for taking the time to make this useful resource and for thus generously sharing it. I also needs to thank the awarding our bodies for writing the questions – there are sometimes sensible questions in GCSE exams!

Extremely recommended on this class are the NCETM Checkpoints, and the DfE’s Key Stage 3 Maths Steerage. Each assets are very top quality, which isn’t stunning once you have a look at the group of consultants behind them. The Key Stage 3 Steerage offers invaluable CPD for Key Stage 3 maths academics, with loads of prompts for division dialogue.

Checkpoints are diagnostic actions designed for 12 months 7 youngsters. Do examine them out if you have not already.

3. Hidden Gem Award

Richard Tock has shared some incredible assets this yr via his weblog and TES account. I really like the clutter-free type of his assets and the fastidiously thought-out examples and duties. I am giving him the ‘Hidden Gem’ award as a result of I feel his beautiful assets are comparatively unknown and extra academics ought to examine them out.

In Estimating the imply from a grouped frequency desk, his lesson begins with some work on discovering midpoints.

and leads onto to a effectively scaffolded process on discovering the imply.

Half or two? was designed as a starter process in response to a false impression Richard recognized in his class.

This yr’s Finest Weblog Award goes to Dan Draper (@MrDraperMaths) for his glorious weblog ‘Opinions No one Requested For‘. Dan recurrently posts witty and insightful items about his experiences within the classroom. He thinks deeply about subjects and freely shares the superb assets he has developed.

Listed below are just a few examples of duties – first, an train from his glorious put up concerning the order of operations:

And from the put up x=a, y=b: When?, a process the place pupils practise filtering data on a diagram.

And at last, from his put up Interleaving Circle Theorems 1, an instance of a circle theorems query that brings collectively a great deal of beforehand taught content material together with trigonometry and space.

5. Trainer Web site Award
The award for Finest Trainer Web site goes to Amanda Austin (@draustinmaths) for her sensible web site draustinmaths.com. When Amanda makes a useful resource for her personal college students, she publishes it on her web site so we are able to all profit from it totally free. It is a actually variety factor to do, and is far appreciated by academics like me who make lots of use of her assets. I notably like all her ‘Fill within the blanks actions’ which function each scaffolding and problem.

Plenty of different web sites deserve a particular point out on this class, together with:

Operating (and recurrently including to) a high-quality web site while educating full time isn’t any imply feat.

6. Finest Recreation Award

I completely love Nerdle. This fast every day maths puzzle has turn out to be a part of my morning routine. The format is not actually new (I used to play the mastermind board sport within the 80s which primarily based on the same logic) however the on-line video games of this ilk that sprung up initially of 2022 have turn out to be vastly widespread and there at the moment are masses to select from: Wordle, Nerdle, Heardle, Movidle and many others.

This award goes to Numble, an app made by Olivia Gibson and shared by her trainer @mathsDJ. This sport is spectacular for various causes, together with:

it is easy to play
it helps college students study divisibility guidelines
it is enjoyable
it was created by a sixth type scholar.

Extremely recommended on this class is MathsPad for his or her Instances Desk Sequences Recreation which is a extremely enjoyable solution to practise each instances tables and sequences, and is nice for each main and secondary youngsters. I take pleasure in taking part in this with my 12 months 5 daughter.

Additionally Extremely Counseled on this class is the superb No Extra Primes from Nathan Day.

7. Finest CPD Award
The Finest CPD Award goes to the ebook If I Might Inform You One Factor which was revealed by The MA and edited by Ed Southall. What I really like about this ebook is that’s options a variety of recommendation from skilled maths academics and consultants on a lot of totally different subjects. There’s one thing for everybody right here, and since it is a assortment of quick chapters, it is easy for a busy maths trainer to dip into it.

Extremely Counseled on this class is the brand new podcast from Craig Barton ‘Suggestions for Lecturers‘. This incredible new initiative brings us snippets of wise recommendation from skilled academics, obtainable in both podcast or video format.

I also needs to say that every one the CPD suppliers I discussed in final yr’s Gem Awards are nonetheless superior.

8. Finest Assets Award
James and Nicola from MathsPad are the winners of the Finest Assets Award this yr for his or her incredible assortment of assets, notably their new vary of curriculum booklets. Their booklets can be found for 12 months 7, 8 and 9 (to this point) and are packed filled with sensible duties for every matter, that includes a lot of depth and problem. Listed below are some examples of their actions:

What a incredible assortment of assets.

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Nicely performed to all of the winners of the Gem Awards 2022! And thanks to all of the maths academics who share their concepts and assets. There are a lot of individuals who I’ve not talked about right here who’ve helped to fill my gems posts over the past yr. We’re fortunate to have such a powerful and supportive neighborhood.