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Trial & Improvement

JustMathsMel2013-09-24T20:07:08+01:00September 24th, 2013|2 - Algebra, Blog, Resources, Teaching|

Been meaning to post about this since I did the exam marking in the summer, but have been seriously busy (haven’t we all?) and just as I’m about to revise T&I […]

Why 40?

JustMathsMel2013-09-24T19:17:04+01:00September 24th, 2013|Blog, Teaching|

I was demonstrating to some of our students today, all of the resources that are available to them on our VLE and one of the things is the Top 40 resource […]

Number Properties Whodunnit

JustMathsMel2013-09-22T10:01:16+01:00September 22nd, 2013|1 - Number, Blog, Resources|

Been planning lessons this weekend and have put the attached together (and solution) which I am going to use with all […]

I know, I know!!

JustMathsMel2013-09-20T17:41:54+01:00September 20th, 2013|Blog, Edexcel, Teaching|

Its Friday night and most of you don’t want to even think about work … but I want to pick some brains about how other schools deal with the teaching at KS5.

JustMaths Online

JustMathsMel2013-10-06T10:36:43+01:00September 16th, 2013|Resources|

Wow! Fize has been busy … apparently he’s had to do some “coding” to get the teachers resources folders looking the […]

How do you define context?

JustMathsMel2013-09-15T23:44:59+01:00September 15th, 2013|Blog, Teaching|

I received an email today from Suzann Wells (from Samuel Whitbread Academy) about one of the June 2013 worksheets – the Box Plots one to be specific. Following this I have […]

Data monkeying

JustMathsMel2013-09-15T12:01:04+01:00September 15th, 2013|Blog, Intervention, Teaching|

I‘m not even sure that “monkeying” is a real word, but Seager calls me the department’s “data monkey” and I am sure […]

DIY homework

JustMathsMel2016-02-15T13:41:36+00:00September 12th, 2013|3 - Shape, Blog, Resources, Teaching|

I posted a blog a few weeks ago in which I collated a load of homework ideas from Twitterworld

“how many”? facepalm

JustMathsMel2013-09-11T23:26:23+01:00September 11th, 2013|Blog|

I called into Seager’s classroom today when he was doing a one -to-one session with some students today (I know I said one-to-one and “students” is plural – we do mainly […]