A worksheet attempting to combine Craig Barton’s ideas on variation theory (only changing one part at a time) and Dani and Hunal’s ideas around making students make choices. I’ve tried to build up to that. Maybe by trying to combine both I miss the point of each. Download the worksheet here. Would love criticisms and… Read More »
I thought I would use a similar format to my ATM Don Steward takeaways. These are just some quick thoughts. They’re by no means things I’ve thought about for a great deal. My first session was Peter Mattock’s session on averages. It was great, although in sessions like this I worry I talk too much.… Read More »
This piece of maths in The Sun was all over Twitter this week. It was retweeted and praised by MP Jacob Rees Mogg. The maths in it is wrong. Wrong, but interesting. A lot of people tried to correct it on Twitter, but Twitter is not the place for explaining mathematical content. The Sun has… Read More »
A great resource
I’m trying a new kind of post. I went to the ATM/MA Don Steward presentation on Saturday. It was excellent, and if you get a chance to see Don speak, go. Don has uploaded his slides here. Rather than the daunting task of writing a full follow-up, I thought I’d just write my thoughts down… Read More »
Yes.
This isn’t a review. I’m about halfway through Craig’s book, so I can’t offer a judgement as to if the book is good or not. This is simply a suggestion: everyone should read this book, and everyone should read it ASAP. The book chronicles Craig’s mathematics teaching journey, from being the king of tarsia, to… Read More »
I went to an interesting talk by Ed Southall (author of Yes: But Why?) at Mathsconf. He talked about area of triangle problems, which I thought about again as I was teaching it this week. In his opinion, we often test the wrong skill. That is, we test that students can multiply and half, but… Read More »
Been doing some playing around. For mixed numbers. Better. Don’t like how in each question the question numbers don’t quite line up. Petty, I know. Still… Thoughts?
So welcome to my lesson. Pens out. One to fifteen in your margins. Nothing new, it’s a review. Question one.. https://bennewmark.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/nothing-new-its-a-review-on-why-i-killed-my-starters/ This is lovely post. A thought: Maybe ‘fun’ starters were implemented partly as a behaviour tool. Might also explain the persistence of ‘high pace’ lessons with lots of superficial tasks. Keeps pupils busy, even… Read More »