5 Maths Gems #103

Welcome to my 103^rd gems post. This is where I part to a greater extent than or less of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers.

1. Surds
I dearest teaching surds! Here's a squeamish surds business from Peter Drysdale‏ (@pwdrysdale). It's a multiplication tabular array amongst lots of blanks to fill upwards in.

2. Puzzles
If you're a fan of geometry puzzles, banking concern stand upwards for out Ed Southall's Instagram page where he has collated all his puzzles inwards i place, together with continues to part novel puzzles on a regular basis.

And piece you're on Instagram looking at his puzzles, don't forget to follow my Instagram account too!

3. Boss Maths Non-Examples
I start blogged nearly Boss Maths (Gems 89. When using their site lately I noticed to a greater extent than or less features inwards their lessons that I'd non seen before. The examples together with non-examples are actually useful for clarifying definitions together with concepts.

Here's an extract from their Circumference of a Circle lesson:

And to a greater extent than or less other extract from their Recognising together with using Fibonacci type sequences lesson:

4. Hooks
Julia Smith (@tessmaths) has been collecting mathematical hooks for lessons. You tin sack uncovering them inwards this padlet. Hooks are items of involvement which mightiness spark give-and-take or could last used to innovate a theme inwards the maths classroom. Some of them mightiness travel good for shape fourth dimension give-and-take too.

5. February Half Term Maths Challenges
Thanks to Lisa Baggaley (Gems 37.

MEM has been running take-home competitions inwards Feb one-half term since the belatedly 1970s. Together, these competitions attract nearly 2,000 entries annually, amongst Challenge aimed at Years vii together with 8, together with Senior Challenge aimed at Years ix together with 10. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 3rd competition, Open Challenge for students aged eighteen together with under, is organised past times Liverpool Mathematical Society.

If you lot desire your students to enter, you lot tin sack uncovering the questions together with instructions here.

Update
On Midweek 13th Feb in that location is a gratis DfE-funded maths conference inwards Northampton for 200 original together with secondary teachers. There volition last a keynote from Andrew Jeffrey, together with thence secondary teachers volition attend 3 workshops together with a TeachMeet. The workshops are: Chris Reilly on Challenging Topics at GCSE, Peter Mattock on Mathematical Thinking together with me on preparing Year 11s for GCSE exams. There are even thence a few secondary spaces available thence book now if you lot desire to come.

Finally, create banking concern stand upwards for out the awesome maths videos together with animations on the website www.etudes.ru. There's loads of cool materials on this website. I peculiarly similar the video on Reuleaux Traingles. Thanks to WTungsteno (@74WTungsteno) for sharing. Here's an extract from a video on Pi which would travel good inwards a start lesson on circumference:

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