I didn’t get around to sharing the holibob homework this time … busy, busy, busy!!! So to make up for this I’ve changed them into some worksheets that you may find useful for any revision session that you’re doing over the holiday period. I’m not going to get into the rights or wrongs of whether … Read more
The first half term is done. It’s flown by. I must say that moving school the second time is much easier but I’d probably have to temper that statement with the fact that I literally ruck up, teach my lessons and leave. No briefings, no after schools, no pre-school meetings .. nada! (I’m probably missing … Read more
I’ve been thinking a lot about the need for “fluency” (whatever that means!) and how not having a firm grasp of the basic number facts and relationships sometimes holds students back from accessing higher order topics. I think that there is a definite difference between “sums” and “maths”. Now, don’t be getting all academic on … Read more
You couldn’t make it up! So the school where we work in our “day jobs” was “Ofsted’ed” back in Autumn – I’ve written about it here -> part 1, part 2 and part 3. To cut a long story short at the end of the inspection our leadership team were told that the “overall effectiveness” … Read more
… in a land far, far away. Actually it’s not that long ago, unless you consider 5 years a long time and it isn’t that far away either! For the last week or so many schools will have analysed their results and will be looking for reasons for any drop in key measures especially when … 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
For my regular readers and those that have been to any of my “getting ready to teach” events will know that I have an opinion about “frequency trees” – which started with an evening of fun on Twitter many, many months ago when we were trying to figure out what they were, because at the … Read more
Anyone that knows me will know how much of a “twitter” advocate I am in terms of the benefits to my teaching. I use it professionally and rarely use it for personal stuff (that’s what Facebook is all about for me but I don’t really “do Facebook anymore”) – ultimately it’s nice to know that … Read more
So here is my “Hit List” of revision topics > HIGHER HIT LIST for paper 2 …. Remember we use the 1MA01 series from Edexcel so this list doesn’t apply to any other board! And as always you are entitled to your opinion … but this is what we’re going with. Overall the first paper was … Read more
Last week I put a shout out to see if anyone wanted to write a guest post and lo and behold Rob Smith ( @mrrismithmaths ) stepped up to the plate … this isn’t the Rob Smith ( @RJS2212 ) lots of you know on twitter for spamming your timeline recently with requests for one word to describe … Read more
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