We have very clear rules about mobile phones – the school has clearly marked “phone zones” and “no-phone zones” which are self explanatory, and as teachers we are advised that they are not allowed to be used in class unless they are integral to the learning, which is VERY rare. In fact when I asked … Read more
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
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
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
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
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