Download the resource here Sometimes you look back at your old work and feel it was written by another person. I went to teach completing the square this week and I couldn’t understand my own resource. It was all over the place. I’d clearly thought about activity first and the learning journey second. It was… Read More »
Get the PowerPoint here This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office. Please tell me if you can’t download from the above link. Hopefully you can also see a preview of the PowerPoint above. (Clicking the ‘book’ icon should open a menu that will allow you to download a copy for yourself) Been… Read More »
I know I haven’t blogged for ages. Sometimes it’s a bit daunting doing a proper post with loads of resources etc. So I’m just going to jot some thoughts down. 1. Craftsmanship Videos I’m a bit obsessed with videos like this at the moment. There’s so much wonderful about them, but I’ve come to have… Read More »
Hello. I know this is the first post in a while, but I thought I’d talk about my routines and what I’m doing during this outbreak. Maybe it will help you solidify your thoughts. I’m going to talk about this through the prism of my year 7s. I teach them 7 times every two weeks.… Read More »
Download the PowerPoint here. This is basically a lot of ideas knicked from Resourceaholic. Sorry @mathsjem! Quite happy with this, though. I have used this with my year 9 class this year and I think I’ve taught trig better than I ever have before. Starts with sine. Talking about similar triangles. Not using the calculator… Read More »
I was reading this article about teachers moving abroad. It’s a nice little read and I thought I’d add my little two cents, as this is something I’ve been thinking about recently. In 2016 I was ready to quit teaching. It’s easy to go through phases in teaching. Loving it, hating it, loving it again.… Read More »
Download the PowerPoint here. I created this after a discussion on Twitter. Estimating is more complicated then I give it credit for. We have to decide the level of rounding that’s appropriate, based on the calculation being done. It’s not just as simple as rounding to 1 s.f. I did some questions that are quite… Read More »
Download the PowerPoint here. I didn’t want to have an example problem pair for this. Instead I went with more of a pattern spotting thing. I think this is quite nice (it all animates in so isn’t displayed at once). Then some fluency questions. Then another PIXEL PUZZLE. I like these, and my ratio one… Read More »
Download the PowerPoint here. So, I’ve been unhappy with my adding fractions lessons for a while. They were always ‘good enough’ but not actually good. This year, I decided that good enough wasn’t good enough. I needed to finally attack them. Flesh them out, make them interesting, build in opportunity for students to really test… Read More »
Download the PowerPoint here (thanks to MrBriggs on Twitter for pointing out that I forgot to add this link in!) This lesson went well, actually. Work out the gradients and try and notice something. Then there’s a little bit on making sure we can properly identify when something is a negative reciprocal. Obviously, an example… Read More »