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Can you draw a triangle with 3 right angles? This makes a great starter or challenge question to any Maths lesson. Is this possible? Why is it not possible? but then….. This solution works great on a balloon and easy to demonstrate in any class. Comments are FREE, please leave one below.
Mathematicians and Valentines Day When Mathematicians do Valentines day they say I love you Mathematically. Comments are FREE, please leave one below. Thanks to Senorfgif.com
What do teachers make? You will find it hard to watch this video and not be inspired, wanting to pass it on to a teacher you know. This is a great piece of performance by Taylor Mali’s for a teacher’s in service audience. Comments are FREE, Please share and please leave a comment below! Taylor Mali
This is why Mathematicians should not write poems! This needs to be passed on to a Mathematician you might know and makes a great literacy starter in any Maths lesson! Can your pupils explain the humour and the connection it has to a concept in Mathematics. The poem was created by @brian_bilston so all credit goes to [...]
What are these Maths Move titles? Thank you spikedmaths.com for this great maths challenge that can be used as a starter for any lesson. It would be great if you could leave any answers you work out in the comments section below so viewers can compare solutions! Comments are FREE, please leave one below. How [...]
Guest Blogger: @OxfordEdMaths Have you seen the new MyMaths? Did you know that there are 4,515,598 students using MyMaths? That’s more than the population of Croatia! Well, Christmas came early for these students and their teachers as, on Christmas Eve, we moved every MyMaths user, as well as their 51,314,124 results, over to the brand new [...]
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 [...]
