5 Maths Gems #33

Hello as well as welcome to my 33^rd gems post. This is where I portion 5 education ideas I've seen on Twitter.

Well it's been fun education inwards this week's heatwave hasn't it?! I long for an air-conditioned classroom. Still, all this lovely sunshine serves every bit a prissy reminder that the summertime holidays are simply some the corner.

1. Pythagoras Pile Up
We've all seen the fantastic #mathsconf4 I was fortunate to listen a fantastic persuasion for education Fractions, Decimals as well as Percentages from Number Resources page.

This calendar week @solvemymaths shared a actually prissy persuasion for education estimator skills which comes from @Ms_Kmp's website mathssandpit.co.uk. Have a expect at her post 'Calculators: The New Hope' to download the resource. And cheers to @solvemymaths for his novel '7 Days of Maths' series, which is good worth following.

4. Maths Videos
Thanks to @mhorley for sharing a link to the BBC's Kick Sum Maths videos - I've non seen these before. They powerfulness come upwardly inwards handy to back upwardly the education of a break of Key Stage 2/3 topics.

5. Self-Descriptive Numbers
Thanks to @LearningMaths for sharing this lovely activity 'Self-descriptive numbers'.

If yous expect through the set of resources from which this activity comes as well as thus you'll encounter that there's enough of other bully materials inwards at that topographic point too.

If yous similar these resources as well as thus you'll beloved cleavebooks.co.uk/trol which is total of splendid activities. For illustration I've long been a fan of the Vocabulary Exercises which would function good inwards an information technology Room or amongst iPads.

Recommended Reading
Here's some links to banking concern jibe out:

• Bruno Reddy (MEI Conference, Pret homework, #mathsconf4 and Favourite Problems. My final gems post - Gems 32 - was 1 of my most pop posts ever.

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