5 Maths Gems #43

Hello as well as welcome to my 43^rd gems post. This is where I portion but about of the best ideas I've seen on Twitter.

1. Vocabulary
Maria Howard (@MrsHsNumeracy) has created a novel resources to assess as well as railroad train students' literacy. Maria's Mathematical Literacy Assessment for Year 7 is 1 of the best vocabulary resources I've seen. Two extracts are shown below but y'all must facial expression through the whole assessment to appreciate how adept this is.

Reflecting on the importance of developing literacy inwards maths lessons, Maria says, "I realised I needed to assess their score of agreement of Mathematical vocabulary, that agency I would know what words I needed to instruct them as well as embed them inwards their everyday Mathematical conversations inwards class". 

I facial expression forwards to seeing the literacy resources that Maria plans to practice for Year ix as well as Key Stage 4. I intend these volition last incredibly useful.

Do banking concern check out the residue of Maria's website too - it's a goldmine of resources for numeracy across the curriculum.

2. Addition
I liked Cristina Milos' (@surreallyno) recent tweet showing an expanded shape of addition. This explanation volition help students sympathise why nosotros 'carry ones' when nosotros practice long addition.

3. New Resources
I'm hence pleased that Don Steward has started creating novel resources again, including the lovely common dechocolateater.

The clever people at MathsPad popular off along to arrive at wonderful novel resources also - here's 1 of their latest activities (subscription is exclusively £3 per month).

4. Returning Tests
If y'all haven't nonetheless discovered #maths TLP then you're missing out. Every Lord's Day nighttime hundreds of maths teachers guide keep utilisation inwards our weekly 'Twitter Lesson Planning' hour, sharing ideas as well as resources for lessons inwards the calendar week ahead. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few weeks agone Mark Horley (@mhorley) asked this question:

I hold back that many of us experience that the lessons inwards which nosotros render assessments could last better. I don't facial expression forwards to these lessons at all.

Mark was inundated alongside first-class ideas hence he wrote a spider web log post virtually it which y'all tin read Animations as well as Simulations.

Update
I uploaded but about fantastic novel this post which explains all. Last calendar week I created a novel page of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 score Mechanics Resources. I also had a post published on the novel spider web log Starter for Five which provides advice to novel teachers.

I've been a flake placidity on the blogging as well as tweeting front end this calendar week because it was my eldest daughter's fourth birthday on Wednesday, plus travel continues to last real busy.

Happy birthday mini-Morgan

Timetabling Maths
I'm actually interested inwards timetabling as well as curriculum design. In my persuasion my schoolhouse doesn't guide keep plenty maths on the timetable. I'm oftentimes rushing through topics. My GCSE students guide keep meaning gaps inwards their conceptual cognition as well as I intend the master copy movement of this is that they haven't had plenty fourth dimension to master copy topics at Key Stage 3. But I practice wonder how other schools tally it all inwards - if y'all increment the issue of maths lessons, what gets dropped from the timetable? I'd appreciate it if you'd email me to permit me know how it industrial plant at your school. If y'all guide keep loads of maths lessons, what subjects are absent from the curriculum?

I lately did ii 24 hr Twitter polls to uncovering out how much fourth dimension is spent didactics maths inwards Years 10 as well as 7. Here are the results:

The Mathematical Association did a Sixty Second Survey which had a similar issue of respondents but provides to a greater extent than detail:

Without the context (eg type of school) both sets of results are of express value, but they practice furnish but about starting points.

It appears that many schools guide keep increased the issue of lessons at Key Stage four inwards answer to the alter inwards GCSE specification. Although my sample size is small, I believe that schools alongside exclusively 3 hours a calendar week of maths lessons at Key Stage 3 as well as four are behind the national average.

Do permit me know your thoughts as well as experiences.

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