Solutions …

A recent tweet from Tom Riley (@riley_ed) reminded me that I’ve been meaning to blog (I’ve been all over the place for the last couple of weeks!!) about the worked solutions we’ll be doing for any future resources I put on the website. I know as a teacher when you have a great resource, sometimes … Read more

Expanding and simplify 2

The attached (and solution) has been put together as an extension to an earlier connect 4 I made for this subject. The idea is that students can be pushed on once they are confident with simple expanding and simplifying  – if I get through both of these in one lesson with my year 10s I’ll be a happy … Read more

More negatives

I’m planning on doing some basic numeracy skills with my year 9’s over  the next few weeks and working with negatives is one thing that I know needs constantly refreshing, so I’ve put together the attached “followme” style worksheet and solution. It is self checking and they should end up with the phrase “Subtracting a negative is … Read more

Promise fulfilled.

I have timed the posting of this, when I know most of you will be at work, so that it gets hidden amongst the ones below and the ones to follow later today – I don’t want people to think I’m putting it on to sensationalise what has happened , or am looking for sympathy – I … Read more

My Top 10 bank holiday weekends

Actually this is nothing to do with my Top 10 bank holiday weekends – lets just say this hasn’t been one of them. I don’t usually blog about really personal issues, and that will continue so using the principles from the world of politics of burying the bad news over the next few days and … Read more

How we’re using the JustMaths Top 40 teacher edition

As a school we have been using FROG as our VLE for some time and it’s now truly embedded in everyday use for our staff and students. As a department we use it to enable our students to access tutorials, resources, homework and for communicating with them directly. As we approach exam season, much of … Read more

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