5 Maths Gems #95

Welcome to my 95^th gems post. This is where I percentage some of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers.

1. Non-Examples
Non-examples are a actually skillful agency of pre-empting mutual misconceptions together with giving students unambiguous definitions together with explanations. It's corking that Jonathan Hall (@StudyMaths) - creator of mathsbot.com together with formtimeideas.com - has launched some other novel website: nonexamples.com. Knowing Jonathan this volition grow chop-chop together with give-up the ghost a actually useful teaching tool.

2. Rich Number Tasks
Thanks to Murat Tepe (Different Forms of a Number' inward which students start past times finding multiple representations of 1 eighth.

Happily this led me to Murat's weblog 'Puzzles together with Figures' which is amount of corking tasks together with problems.

3. Maths4Everyone
I blogged most David Morse's resources before this year. In the concluding duad of weeks he's shared some novel angles resources to his extensive collection on TES. These sets of progressively hard questions for angles that cast a straight off line together with angles around a point are real good written for drawing out misconceptions. For each angle fact at that topographic point are 3 sheets: kickoff steps, strengthen together with extend. Anyone who has attended my Topics inward Depth session on angles volition pick out heard me speak most how ofttimes these concepts are rushed through inward Year 7. We actually demand to wearisome downwards together with explore them properly, together with these resources volition assistance us create that.

David also shared some novel maths vocabulary exercises which he suggests using for 5 to 10 minutes each calendar week to assistance improve students’ vocabulary together with to assistance them larn abbreviations, prefixes, lesser known units together with Greek letters. These give-and-take wheels mightiness piece of job good inward tutor time.

4. Product of Primes
Thanks to Dan Lewis (@4301maths) for sharing a squeamish laid of questions related to prime number factorisation (see his tweet for the amount set). This is why Twitter is such a helpful house for maths teachers.

5. Hegarty Maths 
Here are a duad of ideas for schools using Hegarty Maths.

Ormiston Horizon Maths (@OHA_maths) shared a video of a student's piece of job inward a Hegarty Maths booklet. This is a corking agency of ensuring that students utilisation Hegarty Maths correctly - past times watching the video, making notes, doing amount workings for each query inward the chore together with marker their ain work. Later Nicola Whiston (@whisto_maths) kindly shared the booklet thence that other schools tin give the axe utilisation it too.

Jessica Bramwell‏ (@MrsJBramwell) shared her school's 'Hegarty Handshake' board which is a wonderful agency of praising students for their hard piece of job on Hegarty Maths.

If you lot utilisation Hegarty Maths only you're non on Twitter together with thence create pick out a quick await at Colin Hegarty's (@hegartymaths) Twitter feed because he ofttimes shares examples of skillful practice.

Update

• My latest post 'Vectors for Enlargement' was the kickoff inward a novel serial focusing on methods. Do banking concern agree it out if you lot missed it - I had some skillful feedback from teachers trying this method for the kickoff fourth dimension concluding week.
• I also wrote a post 'Factorising Trickier Quadratics' that was published on La Salle's blog. I can't hold off to percentage loads of corking materials on quadratics at #mathsconf17 inward ii weeks. I pick out loads of interesting things to beak most inward my workshop, together with I'll move bringing along some one-time textbooks to the Tweet Up for people to pick out a await at.
• I also had a post published on Teachwire this calendar week most the Primary Maths Challenge. If you lot are a principal instructor or know a principal instructor delight pick out a await at this vivid maths contest for children inward Year 5 together with 6.
• Speaking of competitions, create banking concern agree out the next challenges for your students. They all start inward Oct thence you'll pick out to motility chop-chop if you lot desire to acquire involved:
• Puzzle of the Week
• Ritangle from MEI
• The National Cipher Challenge

• Look out for my champaign of report cognition articles together with accompanying resources inward ii upcoming editions of Teach Secondary magazine (it's pretty inexpensive to subscribe). I'm actually excited most these articles.
• Tickets for my LateMaths termination are selling actually well. I've at nowadays got over lxx people coming for a unique maths nighttime out inward London on 27th October. Book quickly before it sells out!
• Tickets continue sale this calendar week for the Habs Girls Teaching together with Learning Conference 2019 which I'll move speaking at on 23rd March. 
• Tickets are already available for an ATM/MA termination that Ed Southall together with I are speaking at inward London on Sabbatum 19th January.
• I bought a fascinating mass from the 1950s most maths didactics - come across my thread for some interesting extracts. 
• I'm excited most my novel maths earrings (I went for the pairs of compasses - entirely £5 together with made past times a maths teacher!). You tin give the axe purchase these from Caracat Designs.

I'll exit you lot alongside this composite functions meme shared past times Dylan Agnew (@DylanAgnew3) which made me chuckle.  Have a corking week!

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