Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #165

December 31, 2022

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Welcome to my 165^th gems put up. That is the place I share among the newest information, concepts and sources for maths lecturers.

1. GCSE Revision

2. GCSE Additional Maths

Thanks to @1stclassmaths who has now accomplished the Stage 2 Additional Maths web page of his wonderful web site. The web page options movies and matter booklets for all Additional Maths subjects past the common GCSE specification. These are actually top quality sources – I have been utilizing them with my Additional Maths class.

3. New Assets and Web sites

Thanks once more to @draustinmaths for persevering with to generously share her sources. Her newest batch of features sources have been actually useful for my 12 months 11s in December. There are some nice duties on composite and inverse features.

@markywillis63 has up to date his A stage web site. Every matter now has a set of questions with gaps for college kids to fill in while both making an attempt the questions or watching the movies.

I additionally acquired an e-mail from Sam Kordan who created an internet site with a colleague once they labored collectively at a SEND college: www.adamupmaths.com. It is a assortment of songs, video games, printable instructing fashions and extra.

My readers shall be happy to listen to that onmaths.com has began doing A stage papers, and that gcsemathsquestions.co.uk has been up to date with questions from November 2021.

Thanks to all these beneficiant maths lecturers who’ve been working arduous to create and share content material in current months.

4. Infinite Whiteboard

I’ve blogged earlier than in regards to the implausible instruments shared by @JakeGMaths at mathsuniverse.com. This consists of an enormous assortment of labored examples and a expertise grid generator. Jake has lately been engaged on his Infinity Whiteboard which is implausible. You’ll be able to paste a picture of a job or scholar’s work after which annotate it. It is also very easy to stick a PDF which comes up as a picture. It is nice for stay modelling and you will by no means run out of house! One factor I will use it for is to overview examination papers – it takes seconds to arrange:

Beforehand we have copied and pasted each query into PowerPoint to overview an examination paper, which I now realise wasn’t a very good use of our time!

The infinite whiteboard is extremely simple to make use of. Do test it out.

5. All Ten

Within the run as much as Christmas I massively loved finishing the nerdle creation calendar. I’ve accomplished a nerdle puzzle each single day since February. It brings just a little little bit of pleasure to my mornings. After I lately tweeted to sing nerdle’s praises, I had a reply from @druinok about All Ten which I hadn’t seen earlier than.

All Ten is a beautiful recreation which provides your 4 completely different numbers day-after-day, and you need to use these 4 numbers to make every quantity from one to 10. The interface is nice – it is very partaking and simple to make use of. In addition to being an pleasing recreation for lecturers (I now do it each morning, as quickly as I’ve accomplished my every day nerdle!) it is also a very good one to make use of in classes – significantly when instructing the order of operations.

It jogs my memory a little bit of the traditional 24 Recreation.

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I have been tremendous quiet on Twitter and my weblog currently as a result of, like so many others, I have been actually unwell. However, simply in time for the beginning of time period, I am beginning to really feel higher now, and am trying ahead to an thrilling time period forward. At college we’ll be working the Intermediate Maths Problem, plus we’re taking forty 12 months 10 college students on a visit to see GCSE Maths in Motion – and I am delighted to have this journey funded by a grant from Jack Petchey.

I am trying ahead to the conferences which are arising. At La Salle’s convention in Bracknell on eleventh March I will be talking about Pythagoras. And on the Joint Convention of the Maths Topic Associations I will be talking about enhancing college students’ calculator fluency. This two day convention takes place on the College of Warwick on 3 and 4 April – I’ve you have not been to one of many residential Easter conferences earlier than, I strongly encourage you to come back alongside! Ebook by 31 January to obtain the Early Fowl low cost.

My beautiful staff shall be recruiting this time period – we’d like a Key Stage 5 Coordinator to run A stage maths, which we’re launching for the primary time this yr. You probably have A stage instructing expertise and also you’re searching for a brand new problem in September, please contact me (resourceaholic@gmail.com). The job advert shall be out quickly.

I loved attending Dr Frost’s triannual drinks this week. It is at all times a pleasure to spend time with maths lecturers.

Lastly, take a look at my implausible stickers! I searched excessive and low for some good personalised stickers to purchase my colleagues for Christmas – and when I discovered these, I purchased some for myself too!