Welcome to my 154th gems publish. This is where I share some of the most up-to-date news, thoughts and methods for maths instructors.
1. Blended Six
In Gems 153 I shared a resource from @SegarRogers which utilises Pointon and Sangwin’s undertaking layout taxonomy. There are far more responsibilities like this on Chris McGrane’s web site. @mathsmrgordon has now developed a significant assortment of jobs with a very similar composition. These tasks concentration on the vital competencies and topics from Edexcel’s progress GCSE data. The total thread is below, and a pair of examples are demonstrated below. Ben has also invited volunteers to make and share their possess jobs employing his template. Many thanks Ben!
2. Maths Genie Mini Exams
Thank you to @mrnp4tel for sharing a great GCSE source from Maths Genie that I have not observed right before. I use Maths Genie all the time – it is really a incredibly person-helpful resource of exam inquiries and previous papers – but I’d under no circumstances explored the means part. He tweeted about the Target Tests which element 20 concern checks at 4 distinct difficulty ranges: Basis, Foundation (Quality 5), Increased (Grades 4 – 6) and Increased (Grades 7 – 9).
3. A Level Sources
Many thanks to @pmyygrm for sharing the London Academy of Excellence’s A degree techniques of perform and resources on TES. The assets comprise various illustrations for each individual matter, with plenty of house for students to choose notes in classes. Some thoughts have been tailored from test papers and from Madas means.
Many thanks to @pmyygrm for sharing the London Academy of Excellence’s A degree techniques of perform and resources on TES. The assets comprise various illustrations for each individual matter, with plenty of house for students to choose notes in classes. Some thoughts have been tailored from test papers and from Madas means.
5. KS2 Place the Blunder
Thank you to @SarahFarrellKS2 for sharing copies of the complete 2018 and 2019 Critical Stage 2 reasoning papers that she has accomplished terribly to demonstrate plenty of misconceptions and prevalent problems. Importantly, not all the answers are improper. I find this is a genuinely handy strategy in ‘spot the mistake’ resources.
Updates
In this article are a number of points you may possibly have missed:
- A quantity of teachers on Twitter have shared useful sources relating to the 2022 GCSE progress information. I am not sharing these methods on my website mainly because I don’t want to replicate do the job currently being carried out somewhere else. Colleen Youthful has composed a genuinely helpful blog submit collating the data and assets. Many thanks Colleen!
- Did you see @MrDraperMaths‘ outstanding weblog write-up about Cognitive Payload? It is really a should-read.
- Puzzle of the Week is back again! The level of competition started on Monday.
- I have been chaotic crafting two displays this 7 days: 1 for the MA Conference which is in the Easter holidays, and one particular for my #mathsted22 celebration which will take spot in two months. I am delighted that I am going to be welcoming 130 maths academics to my college for an evening of CPD with myself and Steve Wren from Ofsted.
- My school is recruiting a maths trainer! It can be a excellent place to function – we are a science-professional extensive faculty with fantastic conduct and attitudes. We will have Yr 11 for the 1st time future calendar year, and we are going to be setting up our Sixth Kind far too, so there will be opportunities to train A amount the pursuing 12 months. It is an fascinating time to be part of. We welcome programs from each new and skilled lecturers. The closing date is 7th March. Apply below, or e mail me to focus on.
- Some of the resources in this post have a GCSE revision aim, so it may possibly be a superior time to remind you that I have an considerable assortment of GCSE revision resources listed here. This consists of a selection of sources I have created myself, this kind of as my revision mats which are suited for college students operating at four distinctive grade stages (Grades 1 – 3, Grades 3 – 5, Grades 4 – 6 and Grades 6 – 9).
I am going to leave you with these puzzles for your college students, shared by OCR on their hashtag #OCRmathsPuzzle.
