The Hokey Cokey ..
BLOG 2 OF SEVERAL
I’ve been looking over the draft specification and sample assessment material from Edexcel (sorry guys, your turn!) and immediately came […]
June 2014
May 2014
New Maths #1
BLOG 1 of SEVERAL …
So the draft specifications have been published for the new GCSE, which meant that whilst the footie was on last night I […]
Compare and contrast – UPDATED!
Back in March I set out a timeline for how I thought the changes to the new Maths GCSE (here’s the link) would happen…OK I was a couple of days […]
Jeez Louise!
At the back end of 2013 the government published their proposed programmes of study for both KS3 and KS4 Maths, and then subsequently opened a consultation to these proposals which closed […]
I never thought…
In my adult working life of a little over 22 years (I had part-time bar/waitressing jobs whilst at school/university but am not including those!) I have had 5 jobs and so […]
Mental Maths #2
Once again some of our resources have been featured in the Guardian “how to teach” series, this time about mental maths (link here: How to teach: Mental Maths)
Scatter gun approach
Last week my two year 11 classes that I teach as part of my day job started their exams, and so our lessons […]
… and they’re off ..
Let’s just say its been an “interesting” week and leave it at that – you can surmise all you want as to […]
Maths that’s Mental
I’ve been asked for some ideas about mental maths and this got me really thinking about the range of abilities I’ve […]
Guess what I’m doing?
You will never guess what I’m doing with year 11 at the minute … damn! you guessed! … revision!
