Gem Awards 2018
Saturday, November 22, 2014
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This calendar week it's resourceaholic.com's quaternary birthday! It's larn a tradition for me to score the anniversary of my weblog past times publishing an annual 'Gem Awards' post. Here I await dorsum at all the ideas I've shared inwards my gems posts over the final twelvemonth as well as select some of my favourites. **********
The honor for best novel GCSE resources goes to David Morse for his collection of 'Maths4Everyone' resources for GCSE topics. I've been using these a lot inwards my Year eleven revision lessons over the final duad of weeks.
2. Best New Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Level Support
I'm really grateful to everyone who has shared resources to back upwards the teaching of the novel Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level. The honor inwards this category goes to BCME ix Reflections. I dearest this website for its good written Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree questions (which are freely available), its high character functionality for setting Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree homeworks, as well as its helpful blog most teaching Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level. I await frontwards to seeing how this website develops.
3. Best New Primary Support
This honor goes to John Corbett for his novel primary 5-a-day tasks. 5-a-day is already widely used inwards secondary schools as well as it's swell to see the collection expanding further. John has also started to part novel top dog worksheets.
4. Best New Book
This honor goes to Craig Barton for his mass 'How I Wish I'd Taught Maths'. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 thoroughly enjoyable read, it brings us honest reflections as well as research-based recommendations on how to instruct maths to a greater extent than effectively. The mass been incredibly pop as well as seems to lead encouraged a large issue of teachers to endeavor novel things. Do read it if yous haven't already done so. It's fantastic.
This honor goes to 'consecutive issue puzzles'. The kickoff lawsuit I saw was shared past times Chris Smith inwards his weekly maths newsletter.
6. Best New Revision Resources
This honor goes to the website Access Maths. Grant has shared a large collection of GCSE revision activities including an A3 grid of 100 questions which worked perfectly every bit a embrace lesson for my Year 11s inwards the sew to their Dec mocks.
Honorable lift to Mel at JustMaths for her fantabulous ' GCSE revision resources as well as A degree revision resources.
7. Best New Online Tool
This honor goes to MathsPad for their interactive tool for transformations. The tracing newspaper overlays piece of job actually good here, enabling the instructor to demonstrate transformations piece pupils consummate the matching questions.
MathsPad's free constructions tool as well as graphing tool are also worth exploring.
8. Best Display
Recent inquiry suggests that displays inwards the classroom may Pb to cognitive overload. Whilst minimising distractions makes total sense, I've taught inwards dingy, display-free classrooms earlier as well as I mean value nosotros lead to larn the correct residuum here... Dozens of facts as well as formulae stuck around the whiteboard at the forepart of a classroom may good endure problematic, precisely I sure as shooting don't mean value that nosotros should totally strip our departments of the wonderful displays that larn students talking most mathematics. Displays inwards the maths corridor as well as at the dorsum of the classroom tin actually enrich students' maths education. I oft see students gathered around posters exterior my classroom, deep inwards conversation most the maths on display.
So, though some of yous may lead larn a fleck anti-display inwards recent months, I'm nonetheless a fan. The winner of this year's best display honor is the lovely First grand Digits of Pi Posters and her post most the wonderful conversations this display has sparked betwixt students.
I lead a large collection of lovely display resources on my displays page. If solely I had fourth dimension to seat them up!
9. Generosity
The generosity award goes to Rob Smith, a maths instructor from Leicester who industrial plant tirelessly to back upwards the maths instruction community. Amongst other things, Rob runs branch events for the ATM as well as MA, masterclasses for students, as well as a charity tuck store at conferences (which I love!). Whenever I see him at MA Council meetings he is total of form words as well as encouragement. Rob is incredibly thoughtful as well as is e'er going inwards a higher identify as well as beyond to brand people happy. Thank yous Rob!
10. Lifetime Achievement
This twelvemonth my lifetime achievement honor goes to Jonathan Hall, creator of awesome websites including blogged most MathsBot extensively before, precisely since hence tonnes of novel features lead been added including a library of virtual manipulatives, an interactive issue line as well as a place value tool. His most recent improver is a great Recall as well as Recap Quiz which mightiness piece of job good inwards shape fourth dimension inwards the sew to GCSE exams.
Considering the charge per unit of measurement at which Jonathan produces novel material, as well as how incredibly responsive he is to instructor requests, he must piece of job around the clock. Barely a calendar week goes past times where Jonathan doesn't part something new. He is creative, smart as well as generous, as well as on behalf of all maths teachers I'd similar to give thank yous Jonathan for everything he does.
Happy 4th birthday resourceaholic.com. Thank yous to my readers for all your support!
This honor goes to MathsPad for their interactive tool for transformations. The tracing newspaper overlays piece of job actually good here, enabling the instructor to demonstrate transformations piece pupils consummate the matching questions.
Recent inquiry suggests that displays inwards the classroom may Pb to cognitive overload. Whilst minimising distractions makes total sense, I've taught inwards dingy, display-free classrooms earlier as well as I mean value nosotros lead to larn the correct residuum here... Dozens of facts as well as formulae stuck around the whiteboard at the forepart of a classroom may good endure problematic, precisely I sure as shooting don't mean value that nosotros should totally strip our departments of the wonderful displays that larn students talking most mathematics. Displays inwards the maths corridor as well as at the dorsum of the classroom tin actually enrich students' maths education. I oft see students gathered around posters exterior my classroom, deep inwards conversation most the maths on display.
So, though some of yous may lead larn a fleck anti-display inwards recent months, I'm nonetheless a fan. The winner of this year's best display honor is the lovely First grand Digits of Pi Posters and her post most the wonderful conversations this display has sparked betwixt students.
9. Generosity
The generosity award goes to Rob Smith, a maths instructor from Leicester who industrial plant tirelessly to back upwards the maths instruction community. Amongst other things, Rob runs branch events for the ATM as well as MA, masterclasses for students, as well as a charity tuck store at conferences (which I love!). Whenever I see him at MA Council meetings he is total of form words as well as encouragement. Rob is incredibly thoughtful as well as is e'er going inwards a higher identify as well as beyond to brand people happy. Thank yous Rob!
This twelvemonth my lifetime achievement honor goes to Jonathan Hall, creator of awesome websites including blogged most MathsBot extensively before, precisely since hence tonnes of novel features lead been added including a library of virtual manipulatives, an interactive issue line as well as a place value tool. His most recent improver is a great Recall as well as Recap Quiz which mightiness piece of job good inwards shape fourth dimension inwards the sew to GCSE exams.
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That's it for the 2018 Gem Awards! Thank yous to everyone who tweets most what they've tried inwards their classroom. It's hence inspirational. Congratulations to all winners. Apologies that I can't afford to ship yous actual prizes. I'd actually dearest to agree a glitzy honor ceremony i day!
I know I've failed to lift a swell many awesome people as well as resources inwards this post. If yous see my Gem Awards 2017, Gem Awards 2016 as well as Gem Awards 2015 to see who has won awards previously.
