Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #153

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Welcome to my 153^rd gems publish. That is the place I share a few of the newest information, concepts and sources for maths lecturers.

1. Digitisers

Jonny Griffiths has shared a brand new assortment of sources known as Digitisers. These puzzles are geared toward late GCSE/early A stage college students. Subjects embrace sequences, circle theorems, quadratics, differentiation, logs, trigonometry, simultaneous equations and surds.

2. GCSE Statistics
I’ve by no means taught GCSE Statistics however I do know that lecturers of this course typically lament the dearth of sources. So that they’ll be happy to listen to that Ben Hamilton has began sharing a resourced scheme of labor for Edexcel GCSE Statistics. I do know that many lecturers will probably be actually grateful to Ben for sharing this.

4. GCSE Booklets

Because of Richard Morley for sharing a really useful assortment of GCSE Revision booklets.

📢New useful resource alert!🎉

Been a bit quiet on the positioning lately, however I’ve collated all notes jotters in order that they are often printed as a booklet, grouped by Basis, Crossover and Increased, then by subject, obtain them at https://t.co/UD5GPGsLCM @mathsjem @missradders @Just_Maths pic.twitter.com/HL3VUjOf4U

— Richard Morley (@MrMorleyMaths) January 17, 2022

5. Duties

A great deal of nice duties have been shared on Twitter these days, together with…

This process from @giftedHKO (I used this with 12 months 8 final week!). College students must work out which shapes have the identical perimeter.

Here is an fascinating process from @SegarRogers which may be downloaded from @ChrisMcGrane84‘s fantastic website. It is fascinating to have a look at the vary of questions right here and the way they are often categorized.

In Gems 151 I featured @nathanday314‘s new web site Interwoven Maths. Since then, Nathan has added extra duties to the positioning together with duties which interweave rounding with fraction and decimal arithmetic.

Updates
There’s tons happening!

I made free tickets obtainable for #mathsted22 and all 120 of them went in two days. I am actually wanting ahead to this occasion! I had a number of calls for that I stream the Oftsed speak however I haven’t got permission from Ofsted to stream it. If folks need to run the same occasion in their very own space, they will request an Oftsted speaker here.

Yesterday I ran a 2.5 hour workshop on curriculum and depth on the MA/ATM London department. Thanks to everybody who got here, and thanks to the IoE for internet hosting and Japleen Kaur for organising. The ATM and MA have branches all around the nation which give free/low cost CPD for maths lecturers, so do try your native department.

I additionally did a chat at #mathsconfmini about maths division enchancment. It centered on the current suggestions that colleges have acquired from Oftsed (and ‘mocksted’) inspections underneath the brand new framework. The recording is out there to convention attendees here.

I am wanting ahead to presenting on the MA convention in April. I will be talking on-line on the primary day. Tickets can be found here.

Listed here are a number of extra issues you might have missed:

My video ‘What secondary teachers should know about the Key Stage 2 maths curriculum‘ went down effectively – plenty of departments have watched it collectively of their division conferences.
Mathematical Education on Merseyside has been working take-home maths competitions in February half time period for the reason that late Nineteen Seventies. They appeal to about 2,000 entries yearly, with Problem geared toward Years 7 and eight, and Senior Problem geared toward Years 9 and 10. Their 2022 competitors is stay now – go to their web site to enter your college students.
Dan Draper – considered one of my favorite bloggers – wrote about circle theorems.
The Liverpool Maths Faculty is working on-demand CPD for maths lecturers, with a deal with enriching GCSE classes with Key Stage 5 content material. Data is here.
On Twitter I shared some examples of workout routines from my previous publish ‘Equations Exercises‘ the place I acquired a crew of volunteers to kind up components of an algebra textbook from the Nineteen Fifties. This set is an effective instance of interweaving two expertise: increasing double brackets and fixing linear equations: