Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #163

Because of @mrshawthorne7 for sharing an important activity for discovering the equations of linear graphs the place there’s variation within the scaling of the axes. Charlotte says there’s some good dialogue available round Questions 1 and 4 (they’re the identical equation however ‘look’ completely different) and Query 5 and 6 (they ‘look’ the identical however are completely different equations). The complete useful resource options a mixture of constructive, destructive and fractional gradients and a few questions the place given the equation the scholars have to label the axes. It may be downloaded from sketchcpd.com. 

4. Nets
Thanks to @joann_sandford for sharing a characteristic of @MathigonOrg‘s Polypad that I did not find out about. You should utilize it to create and take a look at nets of 3D objects. Try the gifs beneath the place I had a bit go myself. Within the second gif you possibly can see what occurs should you make an incomplete web. It’s totally simple and it is enjoyable! 

Someway I ended up presenting at three conferences in 4 days, which was demanding and numerous onerous work, however sensible. I do love a maths convention.

On Wednesday I used to be on the Pixl Convention at The Oval in London. I am not a Pixl member so it was fascinating for me to get an perception into how Pixl helps maths lecturers by means of high-quality CPD, apps, assets and evaluation (for instance they supply mock exams – the sort that college students will not be capable to discover on-line! – and grade boundaries). It is a actually good mannequin. The convention itself was a bit completely different to regular – it was a collection of very quick periods, which meant it was buzzy and high-energy with a lot of fast concepts. I did a ten minute keynote on problem. It was a enjoyable day, and the lunch was completely scrumptious!

On Friday I used to be on the Harris Federation convention. I work for a Harris college – yearly all Harris employees have an Inset in October on the Excel Centre, with effectively over 4000 individuals attending. Within the center a part of the day everybody goes to a role-specific session. I used to be requested by the maths guide workforce to run the Key Stage 3 maths room which had round 130 delegates in it for a 2.5 hour session. This can be a very long time to run a room on my own, so within the center a part of the session I had everybody spend time attempting out some difficult Key Stage 3 duties from mathsvenns.com, Don Steward, MathsPad and mathshko. Everybody received actually caught into these duties which was nice. It was ironic that I shared wonderful Don Steward duties when Harris Federation has blocked entry to Don Steward’s web site in all Harris faculties, and regardless of my requests they won’t unblock it. Extremely irritating. Anyway, should you attended this session then thanks in your wonderful engagement – should you work for Harris and also you need the slides, the maths guide workforce will share them after half-term.

On Saturday I used to be in Manchester for #mathsconf30. This was sensible. With Rob Smith working a full tuck store, it felt like an actual return to the total pre-covid expertise. I attended some wonderful periods and actually loved chatting to a lot of lecturers, a lot of who have been at their first in-person convention. I introduced on Space in Depth which appeared to go effectively, regardless of some bizarre projector issues! If you happen to attended my workshop – thanks very a lot for coming – you possibly can entry my slides on my Matters in Depth web page. After the convention, Craig Barton and I recorded a podcast at Piccadilly Station the place we shared our high suggestions from the convention. It is a super-short podcast (beneath half an hour!) so do have a pay attention.

If you happen to attended any of the three workshops I delivered this week and also you need to say thanks, you should buy me a drink right here or assist me by paying £4 a month on Patreon. Many different maths web sites have adverts that present an revenue stream however I haven’t got any adverts to assist cowl the price of internet hosting my web site. So any donations are gratefully obtained. Thanks!

In any respect three conferences individuals requested me how my new function goes. I am actually having fun with being Head of Maths. It is good to do a job I really feel so assured in. I am fortunate I get to work with such an important workforce. I’d weblog about some Head of Maths stuff over half-term. 

My sensible colleague Morgan made a tremendous door show along with her tutor group for Black Historical past Month. It is fabulous. She received the graphics from Twinkl. Nira Chamberlain, who’s featured on the show, tweeted about it:

I will go away you with three good issues for you or your college students.