Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #154

In Gems 153 I shared a useful resource from @SegarRogers which utilises Pointon and Sangwin’s activity design taxonomy. There are extra duties like this on Chris McGrane’s website. @mathsmrgordon has now created a big collection of tasks with an analogous construction. These duties concentrate on the important thing expertise and matters from Edexcel’s advance GCSE info. The total thread is here, and a few examples are proven beneath. Ben has additionally invited volunteers to make and share their very own duties utilizing his template. Thanks Ben!

Thanks to @mrnp4tel for sharing a terrific GCSE useful resource from Maths Genie that I’ve not seen earlier than. I take advantage of Maths Genie on a regular basis – it is a very user-friendly supply of examination questions and previous papers – however I would by no means explored the sources part. He tweeted in regards to the Target Tests which function 20 query checks at 4 totally different problem ranges: Basis, Basis (Grade 5), Larger (Grades 4 – 6) and Larger (Grades 7 – 9).

3. A Degree Assets
Due to @pmyygrm for sharing the London Academy of Excellence’s A stage schemes of labor and sources on TES. The sources include quite a few examples for every matter, with a lot of house for college kids to take notes in classes. Some questions have been tailored from examination papers and from Madas sources.

Thanks to @SarahFarrellKS2 for sharing copies of the complete 2018 and 2019 Key Stage 2 reasoning papers that she has accomplished badly to indicate a lot of misconceptions and customary errors. Importantly, not all of the solutions are flawed. I discover this can be a actually useful technique in ‘spot the error’ sources.

• Quite a lot of lecturers on Twitter have shared helpful sources referring to the 2022 GCSE advance info. I am not sharing these sources on my weblog as a result of I do not need to duplicate work being executed elsewhere. Colleen Younger has written a extremely useful blog post collating the data and sources. Thanks Colleen!
• Did you see @MrDraperMaths‘ good weblog put up about Cognitive Payload? It is a must-read.
• Puzzle of the Week is again! The competitors began on Monday.
• I have been busy writing two shows this week: one for the MA Conference which is within the Easter holidays, and one for my #mathsted22 occasion which takes place in two weeks. I am delighted that I will be welcoming 130 maths lecturers to my college for a night of CPD with myself and Steve Wren from Ofsted.
• My college is recruiting a maths trainer! It is a good place to work – we’re a science-specialist complete college with glorious behaviour and attitudes. We may have 12 months 11 for the primary time subsequent 12 months, and we’ll be organising our Sixth Type too, so there might be alternatives to show A stage the next 12 months. It is an thrilling time to affix. We welcome functions from each new and skilled lecturers. The time limit is seventh March. Apply here, or electronic mail me to debate.
• A number of the sources on this put up have a GCSE revision focus, so it may be a superb time to remind you that I’ve an intensive assortment of GCSE revision sources here. This contains numerous sources I’ve made myself, reminiscent of my revision mats that are appropriate for college kids working at 4 totally different grade ranges (Grades 1 – 3, Grades 3 – 5, Grades 4 – 6 and Grades 6 – 9).