You will have to excuse my cheek but I am hi-jacking Mel’s blog to give a huge shout out to all the Maths people who attended the Edexcel Maths training today in Manchester. It was good to meet so many people who are interested in how we have achieved the results we have done at our … Read more
I am currently in the process of writing the reports for our two trainee teachers who are coming to the end of their first placement – I am sure they will agree its been a “hell of a ride”. Supporting maths trainees is a new experience for our department and one which I think we have relished … Read more
Mrs Ms Christmas Quiz. Every term I put together a different quiz lesson (Xmas – Quiz – 2012) that the whole department uses. Usually I let the students choose their own teams (its the only time of the year that I let them do this and they know that to be the case) and they spend a … Read more
I am so rock and roll. Its Saturday night and I’m preparing resources for next weeks lessons. This set of Top Trump cards (Top Trumps – Percentage of an amount) was put together a few weeks ago, and next week is probably the ideal time to use it. I was inspired by some great sets of … Read more
The start of this academic year seems to have been more manic than the previous ones, and I’ve started to notice the use of buzz words and acronyms more and more. “Intervention” is one that is used a lot at work and especially within the Maths and English teams – I’ve even found myself saying it! Recently I got … Read more
One of the students from my first ever tutor group dropped by today, and it was lovely to see her. A friend once told me that people are in your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime, and to know that I was part of someone’s life even if only for a season, … Read more
Used this site today with my year 9’s and they had a brilliant time. It was refreshing to see some of the students engaging with maths in a positive way – the competition between classmates really spurred some of them on and knowing that they had been entered into the county wide (Worcestershire) contest was an added challenge for … Read more
Practised trial and improvement with one of my classes today – with a twist. Using the attached worksheet which I had put together we worked through questions where the range of the solution is given, to ones where there is no range given and also from equations with single value of x to ones including squares and cubes. Trial and Improvement is … Read more
I have been teaching one of my groups the relationship between length, area and volume scale factors. Yesterday they grasped the fact that the area and volume is not scaled up by the same factor as the lengths of the sides. Today I wanted to move them onto being able to find the length or area … Read more
Writing a blog has been something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, mainly to capture my thoughts and ideas in relation to teaching maths. We will see how this develops over this coming year …
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