Welcome to my 168th gems put up. That is the place I share among the newest information, concepts and sources for maths academics.
1. Revision Sources
I’ve a web page devoted to GCSE revision sources which is probably the most visited web page on my web site. It is had round 130 000 views since I wrote it again in 2016 and it will get notably busy in April and Could. Listed here are a couple of current additions:
- AQA not too long ago shared a few new sources. Their Subject Audits are designed to determine areas that want focus and can be found for each Greater and Basis tier. These booklets comprise one previous paper query per subject from throughout the specification. One other new useful resource from AQA is their Worded Issues Subject Exams. These booklets assist college students achieve follow in answering worded drawback fixing questions. There are two ranges of problem, and scaffolding is supplied for college students who want further help.
- @BicenMaths shared a useful Revision PDF containing all publicly out there Greater Tier Edexcel examination questions with video options.Â
- @MrMorleyMaths has shared a set of Revision Workbooks. Every booklet incorporates no less than one previous paper query on each subject. The workbooks are break up into Basis, Crossover and Greater.
- @1stclassmaths all the time produces prime quality sources. New Follow GCSE Papers are at present being produced within the type of each Edexcel and AQA, based mostly on an evaluation of excessive frequency subjects. Additionally, I’ve blogged concerning the Spicy Questions earlier than however simply to remind you: these are nice when you’re after problem to your Grade 8/9 college students, and they’re now out there to obtain in a single PDF.
- New on Edexcel’s Emporium is a useful resource known as One Marker Starters. This useful resource makes use of one mark questions from the beginning of Basis Papers and is designed to construct confidence to your Grade 1 – 3 college students. Plus there are masses extra unbelievable revision sources to discover on the Emporium.
2. Perform Machines
I actually like these operate machine questions from @blatherwick_sam. Sam says it was fascinating to listen to how Yr 7 college students reasoned and generalised across the final three questions.Â
3. Dr Austin
4. Venns
For instance I like the interweaving with pie charts:
Even this query on primary averages is a little more fascinating than the questions our college students usually encounter:
There are some beautiful circle theorems questions too:
It could be nice if anybody can supply prime quality variations of those papers (moderately than scans) or sources the place these questions have been organised by subject. There’s so many beneficial questions right here.
The Easter holidays are right here, which suggests it is time for the Joint Convention of the Arithmetic Topic Associations. I am trying ahead to heading to the College of Warwick tomorrow morning. On Tuesday I will be presenting my concepts for embedding calculator use at Key Stage 3.Â
I actually loved #mathsconf31 in Bracknell. It was beautiful to speak to numerous maths academics and meet up with pals. I offered on Pythagoras’ Theorem, which is one in all my favorite subjects. This is me with Rob Smith, who runs the Tuck Store and raises cash for Macmillan at each La Salle convention (you possibly can nonetheless donate right here).
It has been a busy half-term (it all the time is!), with my faculty gearing up for its first ever GCSEs (we opened as a model new faculty 5 years in the past so that is the primary time we have now Yr 11) and establishing its new Sixth Kind (I am delighted that maths goes to be our largest A stage topic by a mile). Right here are some things you might need missed over the previous couple of weeks:
- I shared the ultimate video from my current trilogy of Subjects in Depth CPD classes that I recorded with Craig Barton. This one was on Precise Trig Values. I first offered it at a web-based maths convention in 2021. In keeping with @ticktockmaths, “These are the very best CPD ever. Genuinely higher than most telly.”
- @boss_maths shared one other wonderful etymological weblog put up. This one is about what hyperlinks Q, cahier, squad, and quarantine.
- Maths instructor Anna Shah emailed me a couple of ‘Brickbusters’ recreation that she has developed that could be of curiosity to maths academics.
- Try @MattTheApp‘s feed for the newest updates to mathswhiteboard.com, which now includes a PDF annotation software – nice for reviewing examination papers.Â
Calculators
Casio have now discontinued the calculators that the majority college students within the UK are at present utilizing (the 83GTX and the 991EX) which appears to have come a bit out of the blue, and is irritating for faculties who’ve simply invested closely in these calculators. The subsequent cohort of Yr 7s will in all probability use the Casio 83GTCW, so when you ship out tools lists in the summertime time period you then’ll have to replace these quickly, in any other case you may find yourself with a number of fashions in every Yr 7 class (much more so than traditional!).
I will depart you with this query from an A Degree textbook from the 90s shared by @ThtPedagogyGeek. This made me snort!
