Mel Muldowney What a mad couple of weeks … we have heard that the GCSE grading is to be replaced with levels, a new Curriculum has been bandied around, apparently our (and I mean UK) top end students aren’t making the same amount of progress as others and yesterday it was announced that levels are being scrapped and assessment … Read more
I’ve had lot and lots of enquiries about the @ReviseJustMaths questions and answers that I tweet and I have been looking for a solution to share them – loads of you are telling me how you are using them for starters of as a plenary and many schools block access to twitter, which is an … Read more
We are nearly there!! The maths exams start and finish this week and then everything our students have worked towards is over. It is then, a waiting game until August – but we still have 8 hours of revision to get through – last week I taught the same topic 10 (yes 10!) times as … Read more
As a school we use “star, star, target” when marking books, and like the good little girl that I am I try to (!?!) follow this, even if I have left the ink stamp in school I attempt to include two good things and an area for them to focus on to improve. More recently … Read more
As part of my “mastery” (not sure if that’s the right word!) series of lessons with my year 10’s – I’ve put this worksheet together for my students that didn’t get Q5 on the Edexcel March 2013 non calculator paper correct, but will be equally useful for anyone that is teaching sequences. Only another 18 questions left on … Read more
I’ve been trying to get organised ready to relax for a few days and have been sorting through emails too … I do like an empty inbox!! and that is not a euphemism … anyway I’ve found a response from someone at TES resources to an email I sent after they removed one of my … Read more
Further to my post yesterday I’ve put this worksheet together for my students that didn’t get Q9 on the Edexcel March 2013 non calculator paper correct, but will be equally useful for anyone that is teaching indices – it includes a “must. should and could” style exercise before the students attempt the exam questions on the reverse. I’m … Read more
Been a bit busy today .. attached is a connect 4 – along with the solution – that I’ve done weeks ago – its the first in a series of worksheets for solving equations that I’m doing for my year 9’s. This one I’m adapting for one of the worksheets for my test review lessons (see below blogs) … so … Read more
Further to my post yesterday I’ve put the attached worksheet together for my students that didn’t get Q2 on the Edexcel March 2013 non calculator paper (which we used as an internal test) correct, but will be equally useful for anyone that is teaching scatter graphs. I’m going to use it as part of my “mastery” lessons … Read more
UPDATED 6th June 2013 There have been some interesting tweets and blogs recently about students inability to recall prior learning after a period of time and some people would suggest that students should (or shouldn’t) move on with their learning once they have “mastered” a topic or keep working on it, until they have “got … Read more
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