My colleague and superior who doesn’t want to be named designed a Pokemon go lesson. I asked him to upload it to the TES because I thought other teachers would love it, but he’s shy and scared of the internet, so I’ve asked permission to reproduce it here. It is a rich task talking about the… Read More »
A rejected Harry Potter title, that. Artful Maths is brilliant. Some lovely end of term activities on there. We’re running Curves of Pursuit as a session. I’ll be nagging my HOD to buy fancy coloured paper next year to do some lovely folding stuff. There’s more stuff like this in the ATM book Mathematical Imagery, apparently. I… Read More »
bits and bobs Used with my year 10s on Friday. Interesting the different approaches. Some students dove straight into simultaneous equations. Some went for trial and improvement.
I hate teaching constructions. It’s so fiddly. Here’s a little game to make it a little nicer. A little exploration of trying to make shapes using only lines and circles. It’s fun.
An attempt to follow in someone else’s footsteps. rio2016 [pdf] A PDF/worksheet thing about the Rio Olympics. Eight pages covering a range of maths content. Kind of pointless as we won’t be at school whilst the Rio Olympics are on. I mainly did this for a little bit of practice making nice stuff. If you use… Read More »
I love chalk. It’s really useful. For instance, I have a nurture group. They are currently practising their times tables, but can find it really boring. A fun way to practice, and something that’s a little different is writing out the times tables on the pavement in chalk. That’s way more fun and they can… Read More »
Someone showed me this lately. It made me think about how much a tiny little twist can make a task massively more engaging. Task One 5x + 3 = 13 7x + 11 = 25 4x + 8 = 32 Find x. Task Two 5x + 3 = 13 7x + 11 = 25… Read More »
I could watch this all day .
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about problem solving. The new maths GCSE introduces a lot of it, and some of the sample questions I have seen include almost Fermi-like questions. I’ve always liked problem solving, I particularly like the Dan Meyer stuff, but I’ve not written much about it. So here is an example… Read More »
If you’ve ever used either Quizdom or the ActivInspire voting paddles, you’ll realise that they’re quite good for assessment and for plenaries. Unfortunately they have a few draw backs. For one, most schools don’t have many sets (the voting paddles are expensive) and the equipment is often bulky. This is really inconvenient when you simply want… Read More »