At a very recent AQA Maths Hub meeting I was introduced to the concept of fluency, reasoning and problem solving sheets. The presenter had made many for the school in which they worked and used them as end of topic assessments. The school in which I work already has end of chapter tests and so…
Read MoreI discovered the excellent Venn diagram resources by Mr Barton in September but am ashamed to say that have not implemented one into my lesson until today. All I can say is WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG? The lesson that I was teaching today was types of numbers e.g. prime, squares, cubes, factors, multiples…
Read MoreI am so pleased that I went to Mathsconf15, it was an absolutely brilliant experience. I have been somewhat late to the twitter game and so only just found out about the mathsconfs this year. Can’t believe I only discovered them when they are on their 15th conference! If like me (until today) you have…
Read MoreI was introduced to lock box challenges a few years ago by a colleague and must say that I just LOVED the idea! It was so simple and so brilliant and the students absolutely love it. Now get me wrong, it is definintely a bit of a gimic, but there is something really nice about…
Read MoreI highly recommend using some of the fantastic questions that are included on Don Steward’s Resource – English to alegbra I used this resource with my year 7s. I will admit it was certainly a challenge for them but the value of the activity was excellent. The resource starts off nice and simple and highlights…
Read MoreOver the past term I have been using the approach of: example and then your turn. This idea was shared by Craig Barton in his book ‘How I wish I had taught maths’. (If you haven’t read it, DO IT!) I have always done examples on the board, made the students copy the example and…
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