5 Maths Gems #44

Hello together with welcome to my 44^th gems post. This is where I percentage maths pedagogy ideas I've seen on Twitter.

1. Problems past times Topic
I've oft featured links to work solving resources inwards my posts but these are rarely organised past times topic. This agency nosotros possess got to trawl through mixed packs of problems to honor something suitable for our lessons. Bravo to Leanne Shaw (@LeanneShawAHS) for creating a really helpful novel website of work solving activities grouped past times topic. This growing collection includes both total lessons together with shorter tasks. The motion-picture exhibit below shows the resources listed nether 3D Shapes hence you lot larn an thought how this website works. It's good worth exploring.

2. Concept Maps
Thanks to Greg Coleman (Concept Maps which are designed to assist students develop their agreement of mathematical vocabulary. Have a read of Greg's postal service for to a greater extent than on this, including templates.

Concept maps past times Greg Coleman

3. Exam Skills
Thanks to @thefeelosopher for sharing the interesting resources pictured below. This is used to analyse the skills that contribute to students' success inwards maths GCSE exams. I've non seen anything similar this earlier together with thought my readers mightiness live interested every bit it raises about word points.

I wonder whether a similar analysis mightiness live helpful inwards Year seven - for illustration at the cease of the commencement term students could live given feedback against criteria such as:

• Do they know their times tables? 
• Is their handwriting legible? 
• Do they enquire for assist when stuck? 
• Do they brand skilful notes inwards class? 
• Do they create sufficient exercise inwards class? 

This would assist teachers together with parents position potential barriers to progress. Do allow me know if your schoolhouse does something similar this.

4. Puzzles 
I honey the fantabulous puzzles that Emma Bell (@El_Timbre) has been sharing. Check out her blog to run across the collection.

5. Lost Questions
Back inwards Gems 18 I featured a lovely thought for pedagogy factorisation - this was taken from Chris Smith's (@aap03102) newsletter. He puts something similar this on the board:

When the degree arrives he demands to know who rubbed the questions off the board. When no-one confesses he asks his students to figure out what the questions were.

Last calendar week Michael Allan (@mrallanmaths) tried this action together with constitute it worked good - he shared a motion-picture exhibit of his board on Twitter. 

This prompted Keith Morrison (@MrKMorrison) to endeavour the same thought for partition together with multiplication.

During #mathsTLP on Lord's Day in that place was a discussion nigh other topics that this mightiness operate for. There were about actually skilful ideas - I especially similar the proffer that this could live used when introducing integration inwards C1.

Update
I wrote a review of about resources for novel GCSE topics - if you lot learn Year 10 together with you lot missed it together with then create possess got a look.

I besides updated my mathsy gifts page inwards fourth dimension for Christmas.

I attended the Debating Education trial at Michaela on Saturday. It was an interesting twenty-four hr menstruum together with all the debates were thought-provoking. The Andrew Old vs Bruno Reddy struggle on mixed powerfulness was especially relevant to maths together with is something I create intend to weblog nigh at about point.

Tickets for the CPD chemical constituent of my Christmaths Party possess got sold out. You all the same possess got a few days left to buy tickets for the eve political party - bring together us for a fun black of mathsy merriment.

School
School is going well, though really busy - I'm incredibly lucky to possess got 2 Inset days coming up, the 2nd of which is a 'Christmas shopping' twenty-four hr menstruum off (to brand upwards for an extra Inset that was added at the start of term). It's perfect timing for a break.

I'm actually enjoying pedagogy Year 10 - nosotros had a skilful become at all the novel sequences GCSE content. I ended the theme amongst these 2 puzzles from @jase_wanner which worked really well. In the commencement action students possess got to create total inwards the gaps together with inwards the 2nd action students are looking for the strange i out.

Year xi is my big challenge because they're doing Linked Pair GCSE which has a lot to a greater extent than content than normal GCSE. This content (Flow Charts, AER, Linear Programming etc) is novel to me. I solely run across my Year xi degree 3 times a calendar week which doesn't give me plenty fourth dimension to learn all the content inwards sufficient depth. I actually am feeling the fourth dimension pressure level together with possess got never taught topics hence speedily before. Tight fourth dimension constraints don't allow for effective pedagogy hence I'm really pleased that my schoolhouse is looking to increase the resources allotment of maths on the timetable adjacent year. As a outcome I shout out upwards we'll in all probability live looking to recruit novel maths teachers hence if you lot fancy coming to operate amongst me (based inwards Epsom, Surrey) together with then create larn inwards touch.

And finally...
Prompted past times about recommendations I read on Twitter, I'm really much enjoying playing the fantabulous Sumaze puzzle app on my telephone at the moment. I'm besides actually looking frontwards to going to Just for Graphs this weekend, together with am really grateful to my hubby for offering to come upwards amongst me.

I passed one-half a meg views of my weblog lastly calendar week - thank you lot really much for reading!

I'll locomote out you lot amongst this lovely visualisation of prime number factorisation which was shared on @edfromo's vivid Google Plus.

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