5 Maths Gems #86
Sunday, November 30, 2014
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Welcome to my 86th gems post. This is where I part some of the latest news, ideas as well as resources for maths teachers.1. Matching Games
Henk Reuling (@HenkReuling) has produced some fabulous applets for operate on an interactive whiteboard, laptop or tablet. In one applet, you lot get got to calculate the radius of each coloured circle - it's to a greater extent than challenging than it looks!
2. TES Secondary Maths Collection
Over Christmas I contributed to a projection for TES where a grouping of us carefully handpicked the best costless TES resources for every topic. These get got at 1 time been published on the secondary maths collection page. We're hoping that this helps back upwards the lesson planning process. For example, if you're planning a lesson on bearings thence you'll notice some fantabulous bearings resources here.
3. Mathonyms
You in all likelihood already subscribe to Chris Smith's maths newsletter (which I blogged almost here as well as here). If so, you lot may get got already seen Mathonyms, which he featured inward Issue 432. The website Mathonyms.xyz was shared yesteryear Australian instructor Andrew Wrigley - his educatee Mitchell Hamilton created this website for Pi Day. It produces “Mathonyms”: words characterised yesteryear Mathsy symbols. Great fun!
The creator of website mathsbox.org.uk, Sandra (@mathsbox1), is going to Republic of Kenya alongside volunteer arrangement African Adventures to piece of work alongside children living inward deprivation. In guild to heighten coin for resources to accept to Kenya, she's sharing a novel or pop Mathsbox resources for costless on Twitter each solar daytime for lx days. In render she hopes that people volition brand donations on her Crowdfunding page. Resources shared thence far include 'Graph Detectives', structured employment solving questions, a higher GCSE revision relay and a foundation GCSE revision relay. Follow Sandra on Twitter for the daily links.
I wrote almost David Morse's (here. Lately I've made practiced operate of his resources alongside my Year 11s, including his dandy set of 'show that' questions on forming as well as solving quadratics.
David has at 1 time extended his make of resources into the main stage yesteryear producing compilations of maths questions for KS2 SATs Revision. They are organised yesteryear topic as well as amount solutions are provided. These fantabulous costless resources are worth sharing alongside Year half dozen teachers.
In illustration you lot missed it, my latest post service was almost a wonderful maths textbook from the 1700s: Hodder's Arithmetick. If you lot get got some spare fourth dimension over Easter, you lot mightiness relish this as well as my other posts almost what I've constitute inward old textbooks.
Last calendar week I updated my multiple selection questions post to add together a dandy novel laid of quizzes produced yesteryear Grace Horne (@GSmithlar).
If you're planning to come upwards to #mathsconf15 inward Manchester on 23rd June, banker's complaint that La Salle get got at 1 time announced the venue for both the conference (Manchester Enterprise Academy Central) and the pre-conference drinks (the Manchester Piccadilly Premier Inn).
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If you lot instruct Year xi or Year thirteen thence no incertitude you lot volition hold upwards running revision lessons later on Easter. You mightiness notice these posts helpful:
If you lot know whatever scientific discipline teachers, you lot mightiness desire to state them about diagnosticquestions.com where at that spot are at 1 time almost 4,000 completely costless scientific discipline multiple selection questions. Also, it's worth reading this fantabulous post yesteryear @Benneypenyrheol on the operate of the bar modelling inward scientific discipline lessons. It occurred to me when reading this post service that maths departments could back upwards scientific discipline departments yesteryear offering bar modelling CPD using examples relevant to science.
I'll learn out you lot alongside this area puzzle that your students mightiness enjoy, shared on Twitter yesteryear @SteveJLyon. Have a lovely Easter!
