A little bit every day – February 2019

A little later than planned but it was my 25th wedding anniversary this weekend! Anyway … better late than never! Below you will find two versions of the monthly maths calendar : Februarys “normal” version: – > Monthly Maths – 26 – Feb 2019 – Crossover Februarys “number skills” version (shown below): – > Monthly Maths – … Read more

A little every day – January 2019

Happy New Year! Below you will find two versions of the monthly maths calendar : Januarys “normal” version: – > Monthly Maths – Jan 2019 Januarys “number skills” version (shown below): – > Monthly Maths – January 2019 – Number Skills The original post containing the sheets for December can be found -> here and the … Read more

A little every day – December Maths !

Below you will find two versions of the monthly maths calendar : Decembers “normal” version: – > Monthly Maths – December 2018 Decembers “number skills” version: – > Monthly Maths – December 2018 – Number Skills The original post containing the sheets for November can be found -> here and the solutions (for November 2018) are available … Read more

Magpied an idea … or two …

There are a couple of ideas that I’ve seen recently that have provided me with inspiration to develop something that I’ve been pondering for a while and so I thought it only right and proper to give credit where its due.   We’ve always done something on the morning of the exam … I say … Read more

Something to think about – Squares / Cubes

We have learning walks at work where everyone (I think!) is encouraged (it’s probably ”expected” but I haven’t done it!) to pop into other people’s lessons on a regular basis – to be honest it sounds worse than it actually is and ever since my NQT year when I hated people coming in I don’t … Read more

Dividing fractions 1

At BCME over the Easter break, just before the open meeting of the Teaching Committee (TC) of the MA (oh yeah …  exciting/scary news -> as of April I’m now the chair of the TC and am a little scared about following in Rachael Horsmans shadow! She’s done such fab job!!) … anyway, back to … Read more

Dividing fractions 2

Further to my other post about teaching fractions I thought I’d share something that may be of use for revision “fractions” as a complete topic. Whilst writing the previous post I came across something that I used with a previous teaching group (I’ve tidied it up from its previous incarnation when it was just for … Read more

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