Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #160

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Welcome to my 160^th gems put up. That is the place I share a few of the newest information, concepts and sources for maths lecturers.

1. Algebra Heat-Ups
@geoffkrall shared a year’s worth of algebra warm-ups. These are designed to suit with the US curriculum the place college students research maths in discrete chunks, which may be very completely different to the method we take within the UK. Within the US, college students research a course in Algebra, then Geometry, then Algebra 2. Geoff explains in his blog post that he designed this set of heat ups to assist college students maintain their algebra abilities contemporary all through their geometry course. Thanks Geoff!

I’ve arrange a brand new web page for Certificates of Additional Maths sources here. That is linked from the principle menu on the prime of my weblog for simple entry.

3. New Sources from Dr Austin

Prolific useful resource maker @draustinmaths has shared a great deal of unbelievable new duties on her website. This contains duties on reverse percentages, constructions, set notation, quartiles, cumulative frequency, pie charts, bar charts and vectors.

4. Damaging Quantity Hook

Julia’s most up-to-date addition is that this good video in regards to the depth of the ocean from MetaBallStudios. This may work properly in a lesson on detrimental numbers.

5. Percentages

Thanks to @nathanday314 for sharing some glorious percentages sources. Take a look at this thread for extra like this, and hyperlinks to the duties that impressed these sources.

Again to Faculty

These pages are all the time common in August and September:

My Year 7 Maths Activities put up which options concepts for first classes with Yr 7
My Displays web page which incorporates a great deal of unbelievable maths shows for corridors and school rooms

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I’ve created a brand new web page itemizing maths education conferences in 2022/23. There’s not a lot on it but, so please let me know of any upcoming conferences that I can add.

Did you see that Rob Eastaway has teamed up with Shakespeare improviser Rebecca MacMillan to run a sequence of talks for Key Stage 4 college students in Birmingham in November? Much Ado About Numbers – Maths & Shakespeare presents a novel alternative for a joint journey for Maths, English and Historical past departments. I wager will probably be good.

I formally end my Assistant Principal function and turn into Head of Maths on 1st September. I spent the primary week of the vacations getting caught into Head of Maths stuff, which I totally loved. I made quite a lot of curriculum adjustments, rewrote our schemes of labor, created assessments, deliberate first classes, that sort of factor… I’ve additionally spent a while planning classes for Certificates of Additional Maths which I will be educating for the primary time from September. I’ve a category of 32 glorious Yr 11 mathematicians raring to go. After taking a 4 12 months break from educating A degree to arrange a brand new faculty, it is beautiful to have calculus again in my life. And trig identities! As a lot as I’ve loved specializing in Key Levels 3 and 4 for the previous couple of years, these subjects are my pleased place.

I am off on vacation with my household for 2 weeks tomorrow – we’re heading to a cottage in Cornwall. I can not wait. After I get again, I am trying ahead to a few chilled weeks on the finish of August, together with catching up with maths lecturers at Dr Frost’s triannual drinks.

I am going to depart you with this image tweeted by @p_millerd. I do know lots of people who’ll relate to this!