There was a time when the best thing I’d find in the pockets of a coat or jacket would be a fiver (result!) or a load of shrapnel – I’ve found all sorts of things after nutty nights out I can tell you! But, nowadays it seems that every pocket [...]
Welcome to this month’s edition of the Aperiodical Carnival of Mathematics! The Carnival is a monthly roundup of exciting mathematical blog posts. Last month, it was hosted by Kartik at Comfortably Numbered and this month, it is my honour to host it here. But first, I thought I’d start with [...]
Here you go … calendar: Monthly Maths - September 2017 The original post containing the sheet for August 2017 can be found here and the Solutions (for August 2017) are available here – > Monthly Maths - August 2017 v2 - SOLUTIONS
As usual I'm sharing excel workbooks that you can use to analyse your cohort level data from Edexcels ResultsPlus ... unfortunately these ones don't have the "multiprint" option (...yet! ... I'm working on it!) but I've put a blank version in the workbook too as we've always printed the blank [...]
I've updated my usual end of year "pub quiz" that I will be doing with my very last lesson with my groups. I'm a real grouch and generally try to keep them going as long as I can until I relent and do something "fun" ... Anyway, i thought I'd share [...]
Looking for something for that last minute revision lesson? Yeah .. me too! Having emailed out the bumper papers to parents, I put the mark-schemes on our VLE and then as a catch-all for the students that me and Seager teach, I ran around like a mad-woman during period 5 giving them [...]
I’ve been thinking about some of the new content in the GCSE and wanted to delve a bit deeper into some of the topics – not only to make sure that my understanding of the “learning objectives” are correct but if I’m honest I also think I have a hang [...]
I’ve written before about the pressure of making the right/wrong tiering decision -> here but an email I received this week (more about that below) coincided with something I found in the board meeting papers from Ofqual last week that made me go … hmmmmmmmmmmmm then grrrrrrrrrr. The specific piece [...]
We've been thinking about the questions we want students to work through when we get them doing some "actual" work with our "super group" (we team teach a mahoosive group in year 11). After we've done the whole class explanation we usually get them practising a similar question (or questions) [...]
In all the years that I have known Seager he still manages to pull "a blinder" that takes me by surprise and today was one of those days. I'd asked him for an idea to use with year 7 which involved them just "playing with numbers". It was their first [...]
