5 Maths Gems #92
Friday, October 11, 2019
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Welcome to my 92nd gems post. This is where I part closed to of the latest news, ideas as well as resources for maths teachers.The summertime holidays are hither - hurrah! Time to relax, get got fun as well as allow our mental as well as physical wellness recover earlier nosotros acquire dorsum for fresh starts amongst novel classes inwards September.
1. Equivalent Ratios
I like this equivalent ratios activity from Richard Tock (@ticktockmaths). Below is an extract showing closed to of the ratios that must live simplified as well as grouped. These get got been carefully chosen to break misconceptions.
Thanks to Jason Steele (@steelemaths) for sharing a nice probability task. Here students get got to write numbers on the spinners to run across the stated conditions.
Do banking concern tally out Jason's other resources also - he lately shared a dainty laid of questions on angles as well as ratio.
3. Real-Life Graphs
MathsPad has a brilliant laid of interactive resources which are swell for classroom demonstrations. Their latest interactive tool for subscribers demonstrates real-life graphs based on filling containers amongst liquid at a constant rate. There's an accompanying worksheet too.
5. Symmetry Display
Thanks to David Morse (@Maths4Everyone) for sharing a novel alphabet symmetry display. This powerfulness live useful for making 'Welcome to the Maths Department' signs.
If yous desire to brighten upward a maths corridor or classroom, yous volition discovery a large collection of maths displays here.
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Here are a few things yous powerfulness get got missed:
Finally, a quick outcry out to the wonderful Glyn maths teachers who joined me for the best leaving produce ever! We did bottomless brunch, an escape room, pedalos inwards Battersea Park as well as burgers inwards Clapham. What a swell day! It was my showtime e'er escape room as well as I loved it as well as thence much I forthwith call upward to crusade every escape room inwards London! Thank yous to everyone on Twitter who recommended it.
Have a swell summer!
MathsPad has a brilliant laid of interactive resources which are swell for classroom demonstrations. Their latest interactive tool for subscribers demonstrates real-life graphs based on filling containers amongst liquid at a constant rate. There's an accompanying worksheet too.
4. Open Middle Angles
Here's closed to other fantastic Open Middle problem from John Rowe (@MrJohnRowe):
Thanks to David Morse (@Maths4Everyone) for sharing a novel alphabet symmetry display. This powerfulness live useful for making 'Welcome to the Maths Department' signs.
Update
Here are a few things yous powerfulness get got missed:
- My most recent post was nigh surds as well as how the teaching of the theme has changed over the years.
- If you're launching Hegarty Maths inwards September, yous powerfulness discovery Ben Gordon's (@mathsmrgordon) launch PowerPoint helpful.
- If you're setting upward a grouping or private intervention amongst Key Stage 3 students side past times side year, or if you're a private tutor taking on a novel tutee, yous powerfulness discovery this assessment helpful for identifying topics to focus on.
- If you're teaching Year 12 inwards September, banking concern tally out my entry assessment as well as first lesson slides.
- In instance yous missed it, produce banking concern tally out the lovely weblog postal service "Not As Complicated As It Looks…" past times Mr Rowlandson (@Mr_Rowlandson).
- I had a fantastic fourth dimension amongst 3 of my Year vii students at the London Rock Wrangle a twosome of weeks ago. We didn't win the helicopter ride, precisely nosotros came 6th out of 43 schools overall which was awesome. If your schoolhouse doesn't already role Times Tables Rock Stars, banking concern tally it out.
- If yous get got fourth dimension over summer, produce psyche to Craig Barton's latest podcast which features 55 individuals answering the inquiry “what get got yous learned this year?”.
- I actually enjoyed taking business office inwards The Aperiodical's The Big Internet Math Off over the lastly few weeks. I was honoured to live invited to accept part. I wrote 2 pieces for the contest - 1 on hexaflexagons as well as 1 on Klein bottles. I was knocked out inwards the minute circular past times Matt Parker! Do await out for the concluding on 24th July.
- Thanks to David Faram (@dagsmaths) for showing me the maths pedagogy inquiry pages from the University of East Anglia which are total of interesting reads for maths teachers. Have a await at the tasks here and here and the pupil responses.
- Congratulations to Jemma Sherwood on the publication of her fantabulous novel majority "How to Enhance Your Mathematics Subject Knowledge".
It’s arrived today 💃 @oxfordedmaths, consummate amongst back-cover endorsement from none other than @mathsjem 👊 pic.twitter.com/wKlfXiHkON— Jemma Sherwood (@jemmaths) 20 July 2018
Finally, a quick outcry out to the wonderful Glyn maths teachers who joined me for the best leaving produce ever! We did bottomless brunch, an escape room, pedalos inwards Battersea Park as well as burgers inwards Clapham. What a swell day! It was my showtime e'er escape room as well as I loved it as well as thence much I forthwith call upward to crusade every escape room inwards London! Thank yous to everyone on Twitter who recommended it.
I get got a few things to operate on over summer, precisely non a huge amount equally I actually demand a rest! I volition conk along my one-time textbook inquiry as well as my topics inwards depth project. I project design to update my resources libraries - inwards particular, I demand to totally reorganise my Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 score libraries. I also demand to update my conference listings. But earlier I produce whatever of that, I'm off on vacation amongst my daughters... showtime stop, Cadbury World.
I'll travel out yous amongst this dainty piddling puzzle from MathsPad's latest measure shape resource.
I'll travel out yous amongst this dainty piddling puzzle from MathsPad's latest measure shape resource.
