A little every day – October 2016
File for October maths calender and also solutions for September found below:
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Year 7 Resits – Calling all bloggers!
Whilst we are waiting for the promised consultation on the year 7 resits (now being called progress tests!) I am going to try […]
Mid Week Update
I was away last night having travelled to Margate as I had a 9am meeting – come to think of it, so far Seager has managed to wangle local visits!! hmmm […]
All I want is transparency
Is that too much to ask?
You may remember that I put a FOI request into Ofqual following their letter to Pearson adjusting grade boundaries upwards ( my […]
Fluency
I’ve been thinking a lot about the need for “fluency” (whatever that means!) and how not having a firm grasp of the basic number facts and relationships sometimes holds students back […]
Date for your diary
I was meant to send out a reminder to the next Edexcel collaborative network meeting at Alcester Academy this morning but had a disaster to avert. It’s one of my “super […]
Teach GCSE Resit in FE?
If you are teaching Maths in FE then resits are very close to your heart.
Students now have to continue to study Maths if they haven’t achieved […]
Code Breakers
We’ve been thinking about the questions we want students to work through when we get them doing some “actual” work with our “super group” (we team teach a mahoosive group in […]
Elegantly simple
In all the years that I have known Seager he still manages to pull “a blinder” that takes me by surprise and today was one of those days. I’d asked him […]
