Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #160

August 2, 2022

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Welcome to my 160^th gems publish. That is the place I share among the newest information, concepts and assets for maths academics.

1. Algebra Heat-Ups
@geoffkrall shared a 12 months’s price of algebra warm-ups. These are designed to suit with the US curriculum the place college students research maths in discrete chunks, which may be very totally different to the method we take within the UK. Within the US, college students research a course in Algebra, then Geometry, then Algebra 2. Geoff explains in his weblog publish that he designed this set of heat ups to assist college students hold their algebra abilities recent all through their geometry course. Thanks Geoff!

I’ve arrange a brand new web page for Certificates of Additional Maths assets right here. That is linked from the principle menu on the high of my weblog for simple entry.

3. New Assets from Dr Austin

Prolific useful resource maker @draustinmaths has shared a great deal of implausible new duties on her web site. This contains duties on reverse percentages, constructions, set notation, quartiles, cumulative frequency, pie charts, bar charts and vectors.

4. Destructive Quantity Hook

Julia’s most up-to-date addition is that this sensible video concerning the depth of the ocean from MetaBallStudios. This may work properly in a lesson on unfavorable numbers.

5. Percentages

Thanks to @nathanday314 for sharing some glorious percentages assets. Take a look at this thread for extra like this, and hyperlinks to the duties that impressed these assets.

Again to College

These pages are all the time common in August and September:

My 12 months 7 Maths Actions publish which options concepts for first classes with 12 months 7
My Shows web page which accommodates a great deal of implausible maths shows for corridors and school rooms

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I’ve created a brand new web page itemizing maths schooling conferences in 2022/23. There’s not a lot on it but, so please let me know of any upcoming conferences that I can add.

Did you see that Rob Eastaway has teamed up with Shakespeare improviser Rebecca MacMillan to run a sequence of talks for Key Stage 4 college students in Birmingham in November? A lot Ado About Numbers – Maths & Shakespeare presents a singular alternative for a joint journey for Maths, English and Historical past departments. I guess will probably be sensible.

I formally end my Assistant Principal function and turn out to be Head of Maths on 1st September. I spent the primary week of the vacations getting caught into Head of Maths stuff, which I completely loved. I made numerous curriculum modifications, rewrote our schemes of labor, created assessments, deliberate first classes, that form of factor… I’ve additionally spent a while planning classes for Certificates of Additional Maths which I will be instructing for the primary time from September. I’ve a category of 32 glorious 12 months 11 mathematicians raring to go. After taking a 4 12 months break from instructing A stage to arrange a brand new college, it is pretty to have calculus again in my life. And trig identities! As a lot as I’ve loved specializing in Key Levels 3 and 4 for the previous couple of years, these subjects are my completely satisfied place.

I am off on vacation with my household for 2 weeks tomorrow – we’re heading to a cottage in Cornwall. I can not wait. Once I get again, I am wanting ahead to a few chilled weeks on the finish of August, together with catching up with maths academics at Dr Frost’s triannual drinks.

I will go away you with this image tweeted by @p_millerd. I do know lots of people who’ll relate to this!