Friday, August 16, 2019

5 Maths Gems #55

This is my 55th update from the globe of Maths EduTwitter. If you're non a tweeter, or if you're wondering whether you've missed anything, here's a summary of roughly of the latest resources for teaching maths.

1. Daily Problems
White Rose Maths Hub (@WRMathsHub) volition last publishing daily GCSE problems on Twitter inwards the stitch to this year's exams. The files are available through TES.
White Rose Maths Hub has too made a fantastic collection of Reasoning as well as Problem Solving Questions designed for Key Stage ane as well as 2.
2. GCSE Revision Cards
Thanks to Maria Howard ‏(@MrsHsNumeracy) for creating this dainty railroad train of GCSE revision cards so students tin strength out quiz each other.
3. Problem Solving PowerPoint
Thanks to Emma Bell (@EJmaths) for her hand off AQA's Problem Solving PowerPoint. She has organised the questions past times theme as well as tier thus forthwith it's much easier to abide by problems that are relevant to the theme you're teaching. She has too added the answers to brand this a actually user-friendly document.
4. Quibans 
If you lot learn Core Maths as well as thus you lot mightiness last interested inwards these Quibans tasks from Mark Dawes (@mdawesmdawes). Quibans are 'questions inspired past times a tidings story'. Mark's posts include suggestions of the form of questions you lot could explore.
5. New Websites
I've seen a brace of novel (free!) maths websites this week.

Darren Carter (@MrCarterMaths) has launched MrCarterMaths.com. This website displays sets of questions past times topic. It is good formatted as well as slow to use.
Thanks to ‏@SaintAidansMath for making me aware of pentaed.com which is a revision website for students working towards a C. Again, I actually similar the uncluttered, user-friendly format of this website. Each page displays 5 GCSE questions - click on each enquiry to bring out the answer. Follow @pentaeducation for updates.
Update
I've had a busy offset calendar week of the summertime term what amongst mock examination marking, reports, a Parents Evening as well as lesson observations. It seems similar ages since the Easter holidays!

Did you lot choose handgrip of my recent postal service nigh A degree revision resources?

If you're looking for ideas for GCSE revision lessons as well as thus my postal service Higher GCSE Revision volition help, equally volition Craig Barton's 2016 TES Maths GCSE Revision Collection.

Puzzles
Finally, I'll exit you lot amongst 2 puzzles that you lot mightiness enjoy. The offset was Alex Bellos' (@alexbellos#MondayPuzzle in The Guardian. Can you lot fill upwardly inwards this grid amongst the numbers ane to 16?
The minute puzzle is a Yohaku. The event below mightiness move good equally a lesson starter. Here you lot convey to fill upwardly inwards the cells to larn the products inwards each row as well as column and the total of the iv cells must last 31. Check the Twitter account @YohakuPuzzle for to a greater extent than challenging puzzles.