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Guest Blogger: @misstait_85 Revision Maths Games This week I planned a revision lesson for my Year 10 students in preparation for an end of unit progress check. I decided to do something new with the students and pulled out the Jenga sets and Snakes and Ladder boards that had been stored away in the cupboard. Below [...]
Beat Bullying in Schools This is truly an inspiring story about how a simple act of kindness changed the way a whole school behaved. This made a great form time discussion and I have also played it as a starter to many of my lessons this week. The video is 6 minutes long and tells [...]
Guest Blogger: @thenumberverse NEED BEFORE FEED: I Don’t Have A Question For Your Answer. How well should we expect pupils to listen, engage, and try? Why should they, over and above a sense of duty? Let’s say you start a lesson like this: ‘This term we are going to be looking at a new thing called [...]
The sum of the natural numbers from 1 to infinity So I sat here watching this video from @numberphile on you tube thinking this can not be true and there must be some mathematical magic to show that the sum of the natural numbers from 1 to infinity is -1/12. After watching the video I [...]
Guestblogger: @mrtileynunn Easy to read, easy to use and dead right! This book is perfect for a teacher starting out. It brims with enthusiasm and ideas – all of them putting a thrill into Maths, but staying practical. Most of these ideas take minimal planning time and it’s difficult to imagine even the most unreachable 10-year-old [...]
Guestblogger: @mrtileynunn The Potency of Maths Problems Child A: Errrrrrrm, sir, I think we’ve got a problem … Teacher: Really? Show me what the problem is. Child B (head stuck inside a cardboard box): I’m stuck! I tried to see if it was the right size for my head, and it’s a bit tight. I can’t [...]
Guest Blogger: @enyinda14 Shoe Size Math Trick How often do students ask their history instructors “when am I going to use what I’ve learned?” NEVER. How often do students ask their math instructors “when am I ever going to use this?” ALL THE TIME. Why is this the case? Because most students don’t find mathematics fascinating. [...]
New Maths GCSE grades 1 to 9 grade descriptors The Department of further Education (DfE) have released some ‘grade descriptors’ for the new GCSEs graded 1 to 9 for Maths and they are clearly different from grade descriptions which apply to the old GCSEs graded A* to G. The descriptors aim to help teachers understand [...]
Have you ever been in this Maths Teacher nightmare scenario? A must see! Having been in this scenario many times before this video had me in stitches! It is amazing what we as teachers do when a pupil does not understand a concept or idea, and how frustrating it can really be. Have you ever [...]
Guest Blogger: @MrJPWalton ‘Rate my Focus’ – an idea to help children activate their understanding of, and take ownership of their focus in lessons. This term I have decided to challenge my wonderful Y6 Maths class to develop the amount of time they focus on tasks within our lessons. It is an area we have decided upon [...]
EdExcel GCSE Linear Maths 1MA0 November 2014 Grade Boundaries and Mark Scheme Below are the mark schemes and grade boundaries for the November 2014 EdExcel Maths GCSE exam. Check out the previous years’ Grade boundaries and Mark Schemes to make a comparison. The results for this year’s November 2014 paper have been very interesting and the [...]
Can you spot the 22 things wrong with this false perspective picture? Great Image! This picture, “Satire on False Perspective” is produced by William Hogarth in 1754. This picture makes a great starter to an Art lesson on perspective but also could be use for any lesson to exercise the mind as a starter and [...]
Long multiplication methods: The easiest and quickest way to teach pupils long multiplication Having taught this long multiplication method for many many years I have found this method the most proven, efficient, easiest and effective way to teach pupils how to long multiply. The Napier bones method has been around for years and teachers have [...]
Guest Blogger: @gareth_metcalfe Mathematics culture How can we learn well in maths? Why do some people find mathematics difficult? What does it mean think and act like a mathematician? These are fundamental questions; the way children answer these questions will to a large extent determine their success as mathematicians. I believe, therefore, that we need to [...]
Guest Blogger: @gareth_metcalfe Providing Maths challenges KS2 So the level 6 tests were introduced into primary schools at the end of KS2, and I took a sharp intake of breath: was the maths curriculum about to become narrowed for our most able learners? I appreciated that there were many children for whom a greater level of [...]
