Just a quickie that I thought I would share. I’ve been thinking about ways to motivate my “boy-heavy” year 10 group and for them to see the point of homework. I have an issue, in that I haven’t yet found something that engages them enough to “want” to do the work involved. I don’t want … Read more
Here you go … next months calendar. I’ve been emailing this out to parents of our year 11 AND 10 students … seems to have gone down well! The original post containing the sheet for April can be found here and the Solutions (for April) are available here – > Monthly Maths – April – … Read more
I’ve been a bit remiss with this blogging lark, for which you must forgive me. It’s that time of year when the focus has to be our year 11’s … actually I had a few days away at Easter and since we’ve been back at work I’ve been busy putting together our alternate timetable for … Read more
I’ve written about the delights you’ll find in the cabinets on Edexcel’s emporium before and recently Graham (weird how I only need to mention “Graham” and everyone knows who I mean!!) emailed out some new booklets that have been made for “DIY type” questions and also one which I know our students have struggled to … Read more
The “page to a sheet” of questions that I put together for March in this post, seems to have been very well received … let’s just say I have been “feeling the love”. Furthermore (ooh get me!) I have attached the sheet for April for you to use or ignore -> Monthly Maths – APRIL. … Read more
Here in Warwickshire we’re in the shortest half term I have ever experienced – it’s a “4-weeker”. It hasn’t been helped by me being off sick today and yesterday for the first time in forever! My husband had enough on Sunday evening and forced the point with me, in no uncertain terms! He’s right (as … Read more
“Making Numbers” – Supporting children’s understanding and reasoning The marvellous Rob Smith (call him Robert James .. he loves it!) sent me some information about a session that the joint MA/ATM branch is running on Saturday 12th March in Leicester. Delivered by Jenni Back, Sue Gifford and Rose Griffiths (Leicester University and University of Roehampton), … Read more
Recently I’ve approached my teaching with a renewed focus – part of this stems from the fact that the teaching is the part of the job I really love. The main driver though is a quest to understand common misconceptions as I’ve been thinking about where they fit in my chain of thought when it … Read more
Just a thought … yesterday was the first of our Saturday school sessions. As the first one, my plan was to cover 3 topics where I did a worked example on the board with them and then they got to work on similar problems themselves – nothing too exciting but it’s a way of setting … Read more
I have written what seems to be endless posts on homework … arghh!! You would imagine that the question “does homework work?” would be easy to answer, wouldn’t you? As a teaching body, we are all professionals and you would think we would be able to come up with some conclusive proof, either way to … Read more
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