5 Maths Gems #45

Hello together with welcome to my 45^th gems post. This is where I portion 5 maths pedagogy ideas.

1. Circumference
Pi Development and Circle: Introducing Circumference. The latter features animations such equally this:

together with a actually dainty laid of circumference questions.

2. Pinpoint Learning
Causing quite a stir on Twitter over the concluding 2 weeks, @tom_quilter's novel website pinpointlearning.co.uk provides students with personalised inquiry booklets based on seek out results. It's perfect for later a mock exam. You precisely upload students' marks together with the website automatically produces private booklets featuring inquiry on the topics that students demand to operate on. The website is complimentary together with is ready for Edexcel papers, thence if you've of late done an Edexcel mock together with then ambit laissez passer it a go. I've seen many tweets from teachers who've already tried it together with speak real highly of it.

3. Five Minute Mock Analysis
When y'all render mock exams to students y'all mightiness similar to role this first-class Five Minute Mock Paper Analysis from @MathedUp. The file is editable thence y'all tin customise it for your school.

4. C4 Integration
I'm pedagogy C4 integration to my Further Maths flat at the moment. We've precisely done Volumes of Revolution together with I enjoyed making role of props to explicate the concept. Thanks to an catch from Chris Smith (@aap03102), I used paper decorations to demonstrate how a company is formed when a bird is rotated some the x axis.

I used these alongside gifs such equally those shown below.

I likewise enjoyed using constant characters for the starting fourth dimension time. This is an catch from Gems 22. Students who forget the 'plus c' inward their answers are asked to decorate a constant character. Hopefully this volition encourage them non to forget in 1 trial to a greater extent than together with volition brand an interesting display for the classroom wall. Here's a dyad of examples of what my students came upwards with:

5. Snowflakes
These Star Wars snowflake designs are bright together with fifty-fifty characteristic characters from the latest films.

Here's a video most how to bend them:



If you're planning to ambit some snowflake activities at schoolhouse inward the concluding calendar week of term together with then it's a groovy chance to beak most fractals - read Gems 16 for to a greater extent than on this.

Snowflakes tin last a fleck tricky to brand thence y'all mightiness similar these real-life graphs.

Right, I accept mock marker to ambit together with Christmas cards to write thence I improve acquire on. I'll acquire out y'all with this dainty inquiry from @OCR_Maths - what fraction is unshaded?