Usual “bullet point” blog : – Love, love, love teaching vectors!!! – Using the attached (here) “superheroes and villains” themed snakes and ladders game this week. Have put heroes that move you up the board and villains on that move you down the board in the usual place that a snake or a ladder would … Read more
I’m hoping that Seager (my HOD) doesn’t read this as I’ve had some new posters done for my classroom (Seager – its not loads!! I promise!!) for an idea that has been developing for a while where I have an area of the room which provides a focus for the students to feedback to me about what … Read more
If you are teaching probability tree diagrams the attached is a nice little “mission impossible” themed worksheet which is ideal as a mini plenary mid lesson or even as your final plenary. I’m actually going to use it as an “exit card” with one of my groups, which is why there are two sheets (so I can … Read more
I know a lot of teachers don’t explicitly teach the mechanics of calculating a meter reading style bill, such as the type of thing we receive as adults all TOO often, but many exam boards are using them as a way to introduce real- life scenarios into exams. The attached (here) is the second functional … Read more
Its all been a bit busy this week, and with the exams next week this post will be brief. Lets call it an “experiment in bullet point blogging”: 1. Can’t stop long … hope you’re well. Me? yeah I’m good, busy, but good. 2. Revision this morning … year 10 turnout good, year 11 not … Read more
Here’s the partner worksheet (here) for the one on the post earlier – for when teaching area of a circle – the students are to work the answers out and by following them it spells out “Apple pies are too” which helps students to remember that : Area = pi x r2 Its also been added to our other resources on … Read more
This style of worksheet is proving to be really popular, and are great as a starter or plenary. I have put this specific one (here) together to use when teaching circumference of a circle – the students are to work the answers out and by following the answers it spells out “Cherry pie’s delicious” which helps … Read more
I know it isn’t what really happens, but in the deepest darkest months of the year it sometimes feels like “Teach – test – mark – teach – test –mark”. This is not a gripe about assessment or the amount we test out students as I genuinely think that we have the right balance, but … Read more
Less than a month ago, we started to tweet exam questions and answers as a way to get some of our harder to reach students to revise and about 2 weeks ago details of the twitter account were published on this blog. Today we reached a milestone of 100 followers (the 100th follower was @IAPSmaths) … Read more
With the current pace of change, and the rumour mill constantly churning out information, we find ourselves having loads of “what if…” conversations, discussing what we will do if (or when) any of the proposals coming out of Whitehall actually come to fruition. So far, we have refrained from inventing bizarre and outrageous scenarios – to be … Read more
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