5 Maths Gems #109
Friday, October 11, 2019
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Welcome to my 109th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers. 1. Task
Simon Gregg (@Simon_Gregg) tweeted nearly the Nrich chore 'Shape Times Shape'. The coloured shapes correspond 11 of the numbers from 0 to 12. Each shape is a dissimilar issue - pupils bring to locomote out which is which. Read Simon's thread to listen the reasoning of the children he teaches.
Hannah (Year vii Maths Activities which lists ideas for starting fourth dimension lessons inwards September.
2. New Website
Thank yous to @goteachmaths for sharing their novel website goteachmaths.co.uk.
This site has complimentary resources for over 500 topics every bit good every bit clone questions from previous GCSE exams.
There's lots to explore here.
3. Enrichment
Thanks to Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (@aoibhinn_ni_s) for sharing the latest edition of 'Maths Sparks' - together with thank yous to Geoff Wake for tweeting nearly it. This resources majority is published past times the University of Dublin. 
This edition contains activities alongside origami, logic programming, cryptography together with other topics that yous tin create inwards degree or inwards after-school clubs.
Simon Gregg (@Simon_Gregg) tweeted nearly the Nrich chore 'Shape Times Shape'. The coloured shapes correspond 11 of the numbers from 0 to 12. Each shape is a dissimilar issue - pupils bring to locomote out which is which. Read Simon's thread to listen the reasoning of the children he teaches.
2. New Website
Thank yous to @goteachmaths for sharing their novel website goteachmaths.co.uk.
3. Enrichment
Thanks to Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (@aoibhinn_ni_s) for sharing the latest edition of 'Maths Sparks' - together with thank yous to Geoff Wake for tweeting nearly it. This resources majority is published past times the University of Dublin.
H5N1 few novel H5N1 bird resources have been shared recently:
- SandraD (@mathsbox1) shared complimentary H5N1 bird revision notes for pure, statistics together with mechanics.
- Like terminal year, CrashMaths (@crashMATHS_CM) volition locomote sharing a revision query countdown to the AS Maths exams starting on the quaternary May 2019.
- Mo Ladak (Gems 107)
- Tom Bennison (
I also passed my v millionth weblog visit! And tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of resourceaholic.com.
I'll locomote assist a issue of conferences inwards the summertime term:
- Saturday 15th June: researchED Rugby 2019 (presenting on multiplication)
- Saturday 22nd June: The Complete Mathematics Conference (presenting on the development of vocabulary inwards maths education).
- Saturday 29th June: MEI Conference (presenting on Key Stage three together with four resources).
- Monday eighth July: Kent together with Medway Secondary Maths Conference (presenting a plenary on mathematical methods).
I promise to come across yous at these events! Also relieve the appointment for adjacent year's MA Easter conference. It's going to locomote at an amazing venue inwards Bedfordshire. It's solely 2 nights which volition hopefully acquire inwards to a greater extent than affordable together with accessible to many teachers. If you've never been to a residential conference earlier together with hence possibly give this ane a elbow grease - it's a really dissimilar sense to a ane hateful solar daytime event.
Often things come upward up on Twitter that I've blogged nearly inwards previous gems posts. Recently I talked on Craig's podcast nearly using Equation Editor shortcuts, together with afterward that at that spot was a flurry of posts nearly it, especially from top dog teachers on Twitter together with Facebook. As a effect of the renewed interest, Dan Rodriguez-Clark (@InteractMaths) created a Guide to using Equation Editor inwards Word together with Powerpoint which includes things I hadn't seen before. Thank yous Dan!
And inwards instance yous took Easter off social media, hither are another recent shares that yous powerfulness bring missed:
Thank yous to Jamie Frost for hosting drinks at his employment solid together with dinner at his local pub - it's ever a pleasance to hang out alongside maths teachers.
Finally, I'll acquire out yous alongside this awesome interactive history of maths timeline on the wonderful site mathigon.org. This is the best maths timeline I've seen. Thank yous to @MEIMaths for sharing this.
Often things come upward up on Twitter that I've blogged nearly inwards previous gems posts. Recently I talked on Craig's podcast nearly using Equation Editor shortcuts, together with afterward that at that spot was a flurry of posts nearly it, especially from top dog teachers on Twitter together with Facebook. As a effect of the renewed interest, Dan Rodriguez-Clark (@InteractMaths) created a Guide to using Equation Editor inwards Word together with Powerpoint which includes things I hadn't seen before. Thank yous Dan!
And inwards instance yous took Easter off social media, hither are another recent shares that yous powerfulness bring missed:
- Naveen Rizvi @naveenfrizvi shared the booklets she has used for teaching algebra, equations together with fractions. Naveen received a lot of requests to portion these booklets afterward her podcast alongside Craig Barton. Read to a greater extent than inwards this post on Naveen's blog.
- Edexcel shared a Teacher's Guide to Command Words.
- PG Online (@pgonlinepub) released an examiner's study summary for maths GCSE.
- I discovered some A02/A03 resources on AQA's All About Maths that I recollect to role for GCSE revision (they bring been at that spot for years but I've solely simply spotted them!).
- I tweeted nearly a cool means to create algebraic partitioning - yous tin come across it explained here.
Thank yous to Jamie Frost for hosting drinks at his employment solid together with dinner at his local pub - it's ever a pleasance to hang out alongside maths teachers.
Finally, I'll acquire out yous alongside this awesome interactive history of maths timeline on the wonderful site mathigon.org. This is the best maths timeline I've seen. Thank yous to @MEIMaths for sharing this.
