Every time I eat cheese and onion crisps (usually because they’re all that’s left!) I think “these really are nice and I quite like them”. I do the same with lots of things: going to my mother-in-laws, making bread, digging at my allotment, swimming etc etc.

I bet you’re wondering if I’ve gone slightly mad or maybe you’re wondering if I’ve been sniffing the Baileys bottle (not again!).

Let me explain … you know that feeling when you don’t want to do something, but then, when you do, you find that you quite enjoy it and it takes you a little by surprise? Yes you do. You know exactly what I mean!

It seems like ages since I’ve done something new in terms of writing a new worksheet (it’s only a couple of weeks) and I’ve had to really build myself up to it as I’m still struggling with a chest infection (it WILL be better by Wednesday night or else!!) but it was good to “get back on the hoss”. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy the process. Thinking about the progression in the questions or throwing a few curveballs in is really rewarding when I start to think about the groups I’ll be able to use it with. In this case I’ll be using it with my year 7s with the aim to identify areas which we need to work on but it’s a set 1 and I don’t want to use whole numbers. The group make up is changing following some set changes and so I need to get an understanding of the “newbies” to my group.

So let me present my new “top secret” code-breaking decimals worksheet (HERE TO DOWNLOAD), with a mention to Rhian Davies (@_Rhi_Rhi) and Jo Morgan (@mathsgem) who both found my mistakes when I couldn’t see the wood for the trees. Jo was pipped to the post by Rhian and needs to up her game a tad. Seriously though, Thanks x

PS: Yes two posts in one night! Old Andrew will be having a fit as he tries to document the whole internet!