Please do read on … whilst most of you won’t offer the WJEC qualification you’ll find some links to some fab resources – I must say that the one good thing about all these changes is that the exam boards have certainly upped their game in terms of what support they are offering teachers! In … Read more
So it’s late … I know! VERY late but I can’t sleep. This is nothing new to me so don’t be thinking I’m losing it … but it does seem worse at the minute. Too many unknowns and we are marking mocks at the minute so maybe that has something to do with it … who knows? My two most … Read more
One of the topics that is new to the higher tier is “expanding two or more binomials”. When the subject criteria was published there was a question as to “how many binomials?” … where does it end? In fact, it’s not that scary … what it actually means is triple brackets … just that! (no guarantees … Read more
I know! I know! I know! Its the Christmas holidays! I don’t need anyone else nagging me … if I wanted that I would actually listen to my husband. The next half term is a real short one, and I know that its going to be a busy one; so far the list reads like … Read more
I’ve put the attached worksheet together for PRODUCT OF PRIME FACTORS. We have been using similar differentiated worksheets for a while at school, and I am trying to put them together for most KS3 and KS4 topics; the idea is that they get progressively harder and you allow the students to make the decision as to whether … Read more
I have recently put together some activities for two way tables, and as I said on the last blog, many exam boards now include questions that involve more than finishing a partially completed two-way table. This activity involves the students working through the questions to form the actual worded part of the question, which then gives … Read more
How do you incorporate some of the higher-order thinking skills into a lesson about two-way tables? Rather than just getting the students to do “more of the same” I have produced the attached activity that initially involves them completing a worksheet with five partially completed tables, but they then have to use this information to … Read more
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
It really is beginning to look like and feel like Christmas everywhere else apart from my little piece of the Midlands. I have this evening thought about getting my Christmas decorations out of the loft – it hasn’t happened but the thought was there, and if that happens I might get to send my neighbours the … 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
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