5 Maths Gems #79

Welcome to my 79^th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers.

1. Percentages
Miss Konstantine (blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar activity, which is at i time linked inward my resource library.

2. TES Freebies

I've never bought a resources from TES earlier only final calendar week I establish i that is going to salve me a huge sum of fourth dimension together with printing budget... For my blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Papers Society I accept to impress a lot of GCSE papers, which is actually expensive given that GCSE papers are unremarkably around twenty - xxx pages long. Thankfully I establish that a teacher (tpayne89) has pose a lot of endeavour into cutting a alternative of GCSE papers downward to brusk A5 booklets - the resources is here. 

I know that some of you lot are hence annoyed that TES at i time sells resources that you'd never contemplate buying one, only the balance of you lot powerfulness produce goodness from the fact that TES are offering a £5 voucher for get-go timer buyers to purchase a resources during Nov (use the code NOVEMBERNEWBIE).

3. Prime on a Lime
Inspired past times 'Elf on a Shelf', Chris Smith (@aap03102) shared this movie on Twitter...

We had fun guessing the rhyming phrase for this movie together with others shared past times Chris... together with and hence other people joined inward together with made their own. Julia Smith (@tessmaths) collected them together inward a padlet - come across if you lot tin gauge them all!

4. Key Stage iii Support
Thanks to Lisa Pollard (@booleanmathshub) for sharing the NCETM's recent publication 'Teaching for Mastery: Questions, tasks together with activities to back upwardly assessment inward Key Stage 3'. It contains lots of useful inquiry prompts that schools could contain into their Key Stage iii Schemes of Work - hither are 2 examples:

5. Mental Arithmetic
This is something that maths teachers volition enjoy! Thanks to Paul Godding (@7puzzle) for sharing arithmetic.zetamac.com. This game is highly addictive! It's fun trying to shell your personal best.

Update
In instance you lot missed them, my recent posts were 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Success Stories: Core Maths' (thank you lot to everyone who commented on this!) together with 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar The Wonderful World of Maths Resources'.

If you're an H5N1 score teacher, produce accept a read of the post 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Strength inward Numbers'.

The MA is currently inward talks alongside the other maths bailiwick associations nearly amalgamation. I mean value that the creation of a unmarried maths bailiwick association would hold out a really of import stride frontward for our profession. I encourage you lot to add together your catch here, whether you're a fellow member of the MA or not. Thank you lot to everyone who has already done so.

If you're looking to alter schoolhouse this twelvemonth (or for adjacent September) together with you lot alive inward Surrey or South London together with hence delight produce driblet me an email - my lovely schoolhouse has vacancies. We accept opportunities for trainees, NQTs together with experienced teachers. We're happy to consider requests to move business office time.

I'm off to my get-go e'er MathsJam Annual Gathering adjacent weekend! Exciting stuff. I'm looking frontward to seeing lots of you lot there.

I'll exit you lot alongside this lovely puzzle, shared past times Chris Smith (@aap03102) in his most recent newsletter. If you've non signed up, email Chris to subscribe.

5 Maths Gems #100

Welcome to my 100^th gems post!

This is a big milestone for me. I've published 327 posts since I started writing my spider web log 4 in addition to a one-half years ago. One hundred of those posts convey been business office of my 'Maths Gems' serial - each ane has featured a pick of news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.

When I joined Twitter I couldn't believe how many ideas in addition to resources were beingness shared yesteryear maths teachers everyday that weren't beingness seen yesteryear the hundreds of thousands of maths teachers who aren't on Twitter. I recollect trying to convince a colleague to bring together Twitter in addition to he said 'I merely don't convey fourth dimension for it. I wishing mortal could merely summarise the ideas for me'. So that's what I elbow grease to do.

I used to write ane gems post a calendar week (I was on motherhood leave!) but straight off I operate full-time I exclusively deal ane or ii gems posts a month. Twitter even in addition to hence provides a constant flow of fabric to pick from, in addition to hence I maintain to summarise in addition to portion some of the best ideas, inward the promise that I tin larn these ideas into classrooms all over the world.

To celebrate the fact that this is my 100th gems post, I'll endure recording a exceptional podcast amongst Craig Barton adjacent weekend. In grooming for this podcast Craig wants yous to guide your favourite jewel (there are 500 to guide from, all indexed here). Tweet, DM or electronic mail Craig (or comment below) to explicate why yous chose it, in addition to it could cease upwardly on the show.

On amongst the gems...

1. Mastery Learning Cycle
Over the course of written report of the final ii years Mark McCourt (@EmathsUK) has published a series of posts on mastery. You must read these splendid posts if yous haven't already! Oliver Caviglioli (@olicav) in addition to Mark convey worked together to do a poster which visualises Mark's model of the Mastery Learning Cycle.

This is merely an extract - download the poster to sympathize what it's all about. This is definitely something to portion amongst all trainee maths teachers (and likely all experienced maths teachers too).

No incertitude Mark's mass 'Teaching for Mastery', due to endure published inward Spring 2019, volition endure a must-read too.

2. Manipulatives
If yous desire to occupation manipulatives inward your didactics but don't know where to start, Craig Barton in addition to Bernie Westacott convey recorded a video podcast that yous volition detect real useful. You tin access the videos through Craig's Youtube playlist. For event hither Bernie explains how to occupation manipulatives to instruct negative numbers:



I've blogged earlier nearly Jonathan Hall's (@StudyMaths) amazing library of virtual manipulatives. It has continued to grow.

One of the novel additions is a bar modelling tool. It's real slowly to occupation in addition to I'm certain lots of teachers volition detect it helpful.

3. Indices Tasks
Miss Konstantine‏ (task for exploring indices. Students variety the cards in addition to detect the strange ane out.

Peter Drysdale‏ (@pwdrysdale) made a Desmos version of this carte sort.

I can't maintain upwardly amongst all the ideas in addition to resources that Miss Konstantine‏ (@GiftedBA) has been sharing lately! For event I enjoyed her recent perimeter problems. Check out her Twitter feed in addition to spider web log for lots to a greater extent than neat stuff.

Speaking of indices, I made an indices business for a recent Teach Secondary article. This resources is designed to endure used amongst a Year vii course of written report later on spending some fourth dimension on index notation, but it would operate amongst other yr groups too. The total resources is here - it contains 4 introductory indices activities.

4. Area
Here's a overnice thought to assist students develop an agreement of what expanse is. Ilona Vashchyshyn (@vaslona) challenged her students to write their cite in addition to hence that it covers an expanse of precisely 100cm². Read the thread for ideas on how to extend this activity.

The challenge: Write your cite in addition to hence that it covers an expanse of precisely 100 cm squared.

Love the unlike strategies students used here. E.g. Leia, who chose to brand each missive of the alphabet 25 cm^2. Notice the revisions on the A.#mathchat #MTBoS Cc @PaiMath pic.twitter.com/FowEQoL4I6

— Ilona Vashchyshyn (@vaslona) 16 Nov 2018

5. Assessment and Questioning
Mrs Budak (@mrsbudak) tweeted an interesting thought from ⁦‪@teacher2teacher‬⁩ that could operate inward every subject. At the cease of an assessment students are given the chance to write downwardly everything else they know nearly the topics on the test. It stops students beingness frustrated when a examination doesn't encompass the things they revised, in addition to it's likely a adept occupation of fourth dimension to retrieve materials from one's retentiveness in addition to write it downwardly (it definitely beats sitting in that place waiting for the examination to end!).

Finally, for some argue this reminded me of some other jewel that I've been pregnant to portion for ages...

Two years ago, I was proverb “do yous convey whatever questions?”. Last yr I switched to “what questions do yous have?” It made a difference. Today I tried “ask me ii questions”. And they did! And those ?s led to to a greater extent than ?s. It amazes me that the littlest things convey such a big impact!

— Andre Sasser (@MrsSasser) 27 August 2018

It such a uncomplicated thought piffling change, in addition to and hence slowly to do! It's worth reading the thread for give-and-take in addition to ideas. Credit to Howie Hua (@howie_hua) for outset tweeting nearly this dorsum inward May. Here's some other of Howie's ideas:

For tests, I dedicate the outset five minutes to convey students lucifer the tests in addition to beak to their grouping nearly strategies (w/out pencils). This lowers their examination anxiety AND when yous walk around, yous listen some of the richest math conversations. #iteachmath

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) 28 September 2018

Update
I've had a busy few weeks visiting a issue of unlike schools, including ane where I saw soundless instructor inward activity for the outset time.

I helped to run the outset 24-hour interval of a novel London-wide Maths Hub Work Group on developing Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree pedagogy, which is led yesteryear Carlos Karingal. We were fortunate to convey a fantastic grouping of teachers attend in addition to I await forwards to seeing how our Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree didactics develops throughout the year. In my session I talked through some of the ideas inward this splendid piece written by Chris McGrane about approaches to didactics calculus.

Next calendar week I'll endure supporting Chris Reilly inward running some other Maths Hub Work Group - Challenging Topics at GCSE. I'll spider web log nearly this soon.

My 2d Teach Secondary article is straight off available to read online. It's nearly social club of operations, in addition to opportunities to interleave this topic amongst fractions, decimals in addition to algebra.

Did yous encounter that Pearson convey a novel serial of maths textbooks coming out? It's called Purposeful Practice in addition to yous tin thought sample pages here.

Finally, Christmas is fast approaching in addition to hence yous mightiness detect a occupation for my collections of seasonal resources (here and here) - some are topic based in addition to some are for enrichment. I've written diverse posts nearly Christmas presents for maths teachers over the years (here is final year's post on TeachWire if you're looking for inspiration). If yous desire to process yourself during December, the MA has a Christmas advent calendar where yous tin larn daily discounts on MA books.

I'll move out yous amongst this lovely job shared yesteryear James from MathsPad (@MathsPadJames). There are a arrive at of solutions inward the comments (spoiler alert!), but it tin endure solved inward a affair of seconds without whatever workings using GCSE degree maths.

5 Maths Gems #79

Welcome to my 79^th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers.

1. Percentages
Miss Konstantine (blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar activity, which is at i time linked inward my resource library.

2. TES Freebies

I've never bought a resources from TES earlier only final calendar week I establish i that is going to salve me a huge sum of fourth dimension together with printing budget... For my blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Papers Society I accept to impress a lot of GCSE papers, which is actually expensive given that GCSE papers are unremarkably around twenty - xxx pages long. Thankfully I establish that a teacher (tpayne89) has pose a lot of endeavour into cutting a alternative of GCSE papers downward to brusk A5 booklets - the resources is here. 

I know that some of you lot are hence annoyed that TES at i time sells resources that you'd never contemplate buying one, only the balance of you lot powerfulness produce goodness from the fact that TES are offering a £5 voucher for get-go timer buyers to purchase a resources during Nov (use the code NOVEMBERNEWBIE).

3. Prime on a Lime
Inspired past times 'Elf on a Shelf', Chris Smith (@aap03102) shared this movie on Twitter...

We had fun guessing the rhyming phrase for this movie together with others shared past times Chris... together with and hence other people joined inward together with made their own. Julia Smith (@tessmaths) collected them together inward a padlet - come across if you lot tin gauge them all!

4. Key Stage iii Support
Thanks to Lisa Pollard (@booleanmathshub) for sharing the NCETM's recent publication 'Teaching for Mastery: Questions, tasks together with activities to back upwardly assessment inward Key Stage 3'. It contains lots of useful inquiry prompts that schools could contain into their Key Stage iii Schemes of Work - hither are 2 examples:

5. Mental Arithmetic
This is something that maths teachers volition enjoy! Thanks to Paul Godding (@7puzzle) for sharing arithmetic.zetamac.com. This game is highly addictive! It's fun trying to shell your personal best.

Update
In instance you lot missed them, my recent posts were 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Success Stories: Core Maths' (thank you lot to everyone who commented on this!) together with 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar The Wonderful World of Maths Resources'.

If you're an H5N1 score teacher, produce accept a read of the post 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.

Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Strength inward Numbers'.

The MA is currently inward talks alongside the other maths bailiwick associations nearly amalgamation. I mean value that the creation of a unmarried maths bailiwick association would hold out a really of import stride frontward for our profession. I encourage you lot to add together your catch here, whether you're a fellow member of the MA or not. Thank you lot to everyone who has already done so.

If you're looking to alter schoolhouse this twelvemonth (or for adjacent September) together with you lot alive inward Surrey or South London together with hence delight produce driblet me an email - my lovely schoolhouse has vacancies. We accept opportunities for trainees, NQTs together with experienced teachers. We're happy to consider requests to move business office time.

I'm off to my get-go e'er MathsJam Annual Gathering adjacent weekend! Exciting stuff. I'm looking frontward to seeing lots of you lot there.

I'll exit you lot alongside this lovely puzzle, shared past times Chris Smith (@aap03102) in his most recent newsletter. If you've non signed up, email Chris to subscribe.

5 Maths Gems #100

Welcome to my 100^th gems post!

This is a big milestone for me. I've published 327 posts since I started writing my spider web log 4 in addition to a one-half years ago. One hundred of those posts convey been business office of my 'Maths Gems' serial - each ane has featured a pick of news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.

When I joined Twitter I couldn't believe how many ideas in addition to resources were beingness shared yesteryear maths teachers everyday that weren't beingness seen yesteryear the hundreds of thousands of maths teachers who aren't on Twitter. I recollect trying to convince a colleague to bring together Twitter in addition to he said 'I merely don't convey fourth dimension for it. I wishing mortal could merely summarise the ideas for me'. So that's what I elbow grease to do.

I used to write ane gems post a calendar week (I was on motherhood leave!) but straight off I operate full-time I exclusively deal ane or ii gems posts a month. Twitter even in addition to hence provides a constant flow of fabric to pick from, in addition to hence I maintain to summarise in addition to portion some of the best ideas, inward the promise that I tin larn these ideas into classrooms all over the world.

To celebrate the fact that this is my 100th gems post, I'll endure recording a exceptional podcast amongst Craig Barton adjacent weekend. In grooming for this podcast Craig wants yous to guide your favourite jewel (there are 500 to guide from, all indexed here). Tweet, DM or electronic mail Craig (or comment below) to explicate why yous chose it, in addition to it could cease upwardly on the show.

On amongst the gems...

1. Mastery Learning Cycle
Over the course of written report of the final ii years Mark McCourt (@EmathsUK) has published a series of posts on mastery. You must read these splendid posts if yous haven't already! Oliver Caviglioli (@olicav) in addition to Mark convey worked together to do a poster which visualises Mark's model of the Mastery Learning Cycle.

This is merely an extract - download the poster to sympathize what it's all about. This is definitely something to portion amongst all trainee maths teachers (and likely all experienced maths teachers too).

No incertitude Mark's mass 'Teaching for Mastery', due to endure published inward Spring 2019, volition endure a must-read too.

2. Manipulatives
If yous desire to occupation manipulatives inward your didactics but don't know where to start, Craig Barton in addition to Bernie Westacott convey recorded a video podcast that yous volition detect real useful. You tin access the videos through Craig's Youtube playlist. For event hither Bernie explains how to occupation manipulatives to instruct negative numbers:



I've blogged earlier nearly Jonathan Hall's (@StudyMaths) amazing library of virtual manipulatives. It has continued to grow.

One of the novel additions is a bar modelling tool. It's real slowly to occupation in addition to I'm certain lots of teachers volition detect it helpful.

3. Indices Tasks
Miss Konstantine‏ (task for exploring indices. Students variety the cards in addition to detect the strange ane out.

Peter Drysdale‏ (@pwdrysdale) made a Desmos version of this carte sort.

I can't maintain upwardly amongst all the ideas in addition to resources that Miss Konstantine‏ (@GiftedBA) has been sharing lately! For event I enjoyed her recent perimeter problems. Check out her Twitter feed in addition to spider web log for lots to a greater extent than neat stuff.

Speaking of indices, I made an indices business for a recent Teach Secondary article. This resources is designed to endure used amongst a Year vii course of written report later on spending some fourth dimension on index notation, but it would operate amongst other yr groups too. The total resources is here - it contains 4 introductory indices activities.

4. Area
Here's a overnice thought to assist students develop an agreement of what expanse is. Ilona Vashchyshyn (@vaslona) challenged her students to write their cite in addition to hence that it covers an expanse of precisely 100cm². Read the thread for ideas on how to extend this activity.

The challenge: Write your cite in addition to hence that it covers an expanse of precisely 100 cm squared.

Love the unlike strategies students used here. E.g. Leia, who chose to brand each missive of the alphabet 25 cm^2. Notice the revisions on the A.#mathchat #MTBoS Cc @PaiMath pic.twitter.com/FowEQoL4I6

— Ilona Vashchyshyn (@vaslona) 16 Nov 2018

5. Assessment and Questioning
Mrs Budak (@mrsbudak) tweeted an interesting thought from ⁦‪@teacher2teacher‬⁩ that could operate inward every subject. At the cease of an assessment students are given the chance to write downwardly everything else they know nearly the topics on the test. It stops students beingness frustrated when a examination doesn't encompass the things they revised, in addition to it's likely a adept occupation of fourth dimension to retrieve materials from one's retentiveness in addition to write it downwardly (it definitely beats sitting in that place waiting for the examination to end!).

Finally, for some argue this reminded me of some other jewel that I've been pregnant to portion for ages...

Two years ago, I was proverb “do yous convey whatever questions?”. Last yr I switched to “what questions do yous have?” It made a difference. Today I tried “ask me ii questions”. And they did! And those ?s led to to a greater extent than ?s. It amazes me that the littlest things convey such a big impact!

— Andre Sasser (@MrsSasser) 27 August 2018

It such a uncomplicated thought piffling change, in addition to and hence slowly to do! It's worth reading the thread for give-and-take in addition to ideas. Credit to Howie Hua (@howie_hua) for outset tweeting nearly this dorsum inward May. Here's some other of Howie's ideas:

For tests, I dedicate the outset five minutes to convey students lucifer the tests in addition to beak to their grouping nearly strategies (w/out pencils). This lowers their examination anxiety AND when yous walk around, yous listen some of the richest math conversations. #iteachmath

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) 28 September 2018

Update
I've had a busy few weeks visiting a issue of unlike schools, including ane where I saw soundless instructor inward activity for the outset time.

I helped to run the outset 24-hour interval of a novel London-wide Maths Hub Work Group on developing Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree pedagogy, which is led yesteryear Carlos Karingal. We were fortunate to convey a fantastic grouping of teachers attend in addition to I await forwards to seeing how our Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 degree didactics develops throughout the year. In my session I talked through some of the ideas inward this splendid piece written by Chris McGrane about approaches to didactics calculus.

Next calendar week I'll endure supporting Chris Reilly inward running some other Maths Hub Work Group - Challenging Topics at GCSE. I'll spider web log nearly this soon.

My 2d Teach Secondary article is straight off available to read online. It's nearly social club of operations, in addition to opportunities to interleave this topic amongst fractions, decimals in addition to algebra.

Did yous encounter that Pearson convey a novel serial of maths textbooks coming out? It's called Purposeful Practice in addition to yous tin thought sample pages here.

Finally, Christmas is fast approaching in addition to hence yous mightiness detect a occupation for my collections of seasonal resources (here and here) - some are topic based in addition to some are for enrichment. I've written diverse posts nearly Christmas presents for maths teachers over the years (here is final year's post on TeachWire if you're looking for inspiration). If yous desire to process yourself during December, the MA has a Christmas advent calendar where yous tin larn daily discounts on MA books.

I'll move out yous amongst this lovely job shared yesteryear James from MathsPad (@MathsPadJames). There are a arrive at of solutions inward the comments (spoiler alert!), but it tin endure solved inward a affair of seconds without whatever workings using GCSE degree maths.