I’ve been thinking about …. the timings of mocks in year 11. I’ve always worked in schools where we test them in maths at some point during the first 2 to 3 weeks of year 11 with a view to giving us a baseline (these have been done in lessons so don’t impact other subjects … Read more
Here you go … calendar: Monthly Maths – October 2017 The original post containing the sheet for September can be found here and the Solutions (for September 2017) are available here – > Monthly Maths – September 2017 – SOLUTIONS
This is being written as a separate post (a sort of sister post to this one) because this isn’t about me. OK … its partly about me … but mainly about an amazing group of year 8 students! Today proved that to me that what we do as classroom teachers matters – I’m not saying … Read more
Tonight, I’m going to treat you (Well I say “treat” but I’ll let you judge for yourselves!) to two posts. The first is by way of an update and the second post is to pay tribute to some very special students. This is the first of those two posts … brace yourself … this is tough … Read more
This is gonna be quick … I promise! But thought I’d share … I see part of my job in year 7 is to get students comfortable just playing around with numbers. Yes, I want there to be no fear about making mistakes but I also want students to be numerate and as I say … Read more
I speak/email/DM and meet lots of teachers … all the time! Many of these teachers are in FE and I have to take my hat off to them as I’m not sure I could work in that sector especially given the policy of enforced resits. It must be draining on all levels to be relentlessly … Read more
Here you go … Monthly Maths – July 2017 calendar. The original post containing the sheet for June 2017 can be found here and the Solutions (for June 2017) are available here – > Monthly Maths – June 2017 – SOLUTIONS
Here you go … Monthly Maths – June 2017 calendar. The original post containing the sheet for May 2017 can be found here and the Solutions (for May 2017) are available here – > Monthly Maths – MAY 2017 – SOLUTIONS
Ever since I watched the above clip from Vi Hart I’ve been fascinated with flexagons and so one night this week I made my very own trihexaflexagon. It was after I’d marked a test for one of my classes and even though we’ve spent lessons and lessons on circles there were still some students that … Read more
I’ve joked from the very introduction of the new GCSE that I wanted to sit the exam with the year 11 group that would be sitting it for the very first time … well .. I’ve only gone and flipping entered! The idea is not to prove that I can get a 9 (but shouldn’t … Read more
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