Time for a break …
Every holiday it takes me a few days to actually realise that I’m on a break and this one has been no different. I suspect it comes from (a) having been […]
July 2015
GCSE 9-1 – Content changes 1
Lots has been written about the changes and with all the “hullaballoo” over the SAMs it seems apt to be able to document a definitive list (from my perspective) of the […]
GCSE 9-1 New content – Error Intervals
One of the new topics in both tiers (for all boards) is “use inequality notation to specify simple error intervals due to truncation or rounding”. I don’t get how using the […]
Oh the irony …
For my regular readers and those that have been to any of my “getting ready to teach” events will know that I have an opinion about “frequency trees” – which started […]
#48MathsTour .. can you add up?
Anyone that knows me will know how much of a “twitter” advocate I am in terms of the benefits to my teaching. I use it professionally and rarely use it for […]
Saying Goodbye
Twelve months ago, it was me walking away from a school that had been a massive part of my life and today I was reminded of what it is like, to […]
Teaching time
A conversation on twitter got me thinking about the hours of teaching that the new GCSE is getting across the UK and possibly offer a “golden nugget” of an idea if […]
“Ok-ness”
It isn’t often I get time to “just think”. This morning I was forced out of the house as we had yet another power cut (I live in the sticks and […]
AQA 1-9 SAM’s
So we get to the worked solutions (for those that prefer them to markschemes, or just want a “mosey” at […]
Pearson 1-9 SAM’s
I’ve been working through the papers from all the exam boards – I find it easier to use worked solutions rather than a mark […]
