1 February 2014 | Blog
between rocking horses and maths teachers? Well … let me tell you my story: 6 years ago, about this time of year I was on my PGCE and having given up a “proper” job to go into teaching I needed to be in position where I knew I had a job in September, ... Read more
1 February 2014 | BlogTeaching
Just a quickie post in a bullet point “stylee” .. – Manic week, not made any better by being germ ridden! (read that as: “have a cold”). We do lots of one to one tuition and we started these again in Maths this week after the students mocks, which means “free (and I include PPA) lessons” ... Read more
25 January 2014 | 3 - ShapeBlog
I’ve been teaching vectors with year 11 this week and whilst I have a snakes and ladders game that I use to get them started, any worksheets I’ve found usually comprise of exam style questions and they’re pretty boring looking. Don’t get me wrong I know they need to practice, (practice, practice!!) but sometimes its ... Read more
22 January 2014 | BlogResources
So far, this week has been a bit hectic (when isn’t that the case?) and also a little bit frustrating; last night I spent nearly four hours putting together a schedule of one to ones and my work lappie decided to have a fit and at about 11:15 I lost all the work! arrrrrrggghhh!!! It ... Read more
16 January 2014 | Blog
Ok, so it’s not midweek, but I seem to have lost all sense of time which usually happens about this time of year, so it’ll be short and sweet! Two things: (1) Bread and butter starters have gone done really well – you’ll find them on the post below, and I’ve already added next weeks sheets. ... Read more
10 January 2014 | Blog
Do you know the feeling, when you’ve had a discussion with someone and afterwards you manage to come up with all sorts of smart remarks, that you wish you’d said? Know that feeling? Usually follows shortly after an argument with someone? Before I go into my “wish I’d said that” moment let me give you the preamble: a few ... Read more
9 January 2014 | EdexcelTeaching
Here are the templates for you to use with the download data for the 1MA0 papers from Edexcel. along with the usual instructions about importing your data into the workbooks (here). There is also an additional version with some extra functionality to print multiple sheets (the brilliant Paul Pavlou (@UKMathsTeacher) has done some tweaking to my original ... Read more
6 January 2014 | BlogTeaching
The attached policy document was published today that sets out the governments plans for post 16 Maths. I know most of you have “got” the fact that from Sept 2014 students who haven’t achieved a C at GCSE must continue to study Maths as part of their 16-19 education (in fact this is tied into the ... Read more
5 January 2014 | BlogEdexcelTeaching
As part of the groundworks for the collaborative scheme of work I have been looking at the new programmes of study for KS3 and KS4, and looking at the overlap in subject content. Many schools will be looking a 3 year GCSE (and yes that means starting to teach it from this September!) and most schools ... Read more
4 January 2014 | Blog
12 months ago we moved my little blog to our own domain (or something similarly techie!) and I continued to post – according to the WordPress annual report it was actually 170ish times that I posted – and slowly more and more of you were reading me chuntering on about all sorts of stuff. It wasn’t until ... Read more
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