Welcome to my 153rd gems publish. That is the place I share among the newest information, concepts and sources for maths academics.
1. Digitisers
2. GCSE Statistics
I’ve by no means taught GCSE Statistics however I do know that academics of this course typically lament the shortage of sources. So that they’ll be happy to listen to that Ben Hamilton has began sharing a resourced scheme of labor for Edexcel GCSE Statistics. I do know that many academics can be actually grateful to Ben for sharing this.
4. GCSE Booklets
Due to Richard Morley for sharing a really useful assortment of GCSE Revision booklets.
📢New useful resource alert!🎉
Been a bit quiet on the positioning just lately, however I’ve collated all notes jotters in order that they are often printed as a booklet, grouped by Basis, Crossover and Larger, then by matter, obtain them at https://t.co/UD5GPGsLCM @mathsjem @missradders @Just_Maths pic.twitter.com/HL3VUjOf4U
— Richard Morley (@MrMorleyMaths) January 17, 2022
5. Duties
A great deal of nice duties have been shared on Twitter currently, together with…
Here is an attention-grabbing process from @SegarRogers which may be downloaded from @ChrisMcGrane84‘s fantastic web site. It is fascinating to take a look at the vary of questions right here and the way they are often categorised.
Updates
There’s heaps occurring!
Yesterday I ran a 2.5 hour workshop on curriculum and depth on the MA/ATM London department. Thanks to everybody who got here, and thanks to the IoE for internet hosting and Japleen Kaur for organising. The ATM and MA have branches all around the nation which give free/low cost CPD for maths academics, so do try your native department.
Listed below are just a few extra issues you will have missed:
- My video ‘What secondary academics ought to know in regards to the Key Stage 2 maths curriculum‘ went down effectively – plenty of departments have watched it collectively of their division conferences.
- Mathematical Training on Merseyside has been operating take-home maths competitions in February half time period because the late Seventies. They entice about 2,000 entries yearly, with Problem aimed toward Years 7 and eight, and Senior Problem aimed toward Years 9 and 10. Their 2022 competitors is reside now – go to their web site to enter your college students.
- Dan Draper – one in every of my favorite bloggers – wrote about circle theorems.
- The Liverpool Maths College is operating on-demand CPD for maths academics, with a concentrate on enriching GCSE classes with Key Stage 5 content material. Data is right here.
- On Twitter I shared some examples of workout routines from my previous publish ‘Equations Workout routines‘ the place I bought a staff of volunteers to kind up elements of an algebra textbook from the Fifties. This set is an effective instance of interweaving two expertise: increasing double brackets and fixing linear equations:
