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
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
In all the years that I have known Seager he still manages to pull “a blinder” that takes me by surprise and today was one of those days. I’d asked him for an idea to use with year 7 which involved them just “playing with numbers”. It was their first proper lesson having done the … Read more
Now that the Maths team at Edexcel are on Twitter ( @EmporiumMaths ) you can almost guarantee they’ll be the first to tweet out grade boundaries etc which they have done this morning. So before the barrage of tweets (they’ve already started) and blogs about grade boundaries, grade inflation, higher versus foundation, which exam board … Read more
As the saying goes: “every day is a school day” and last weekend at a meeting of the Teaching Committee of the Mathematical Association (the MA!) I found out about the primary maths challenge which is aimed at students in years 5 and 6. It is held every November with bonus rounds usually in the … Read more
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