Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #163

Due to @mrshawthorne7 for sharing an incredible process for discovering the equations of linear graphs the place there’s variation within the scaling of the axes. Charlotte says there’s some good dialogue available round Questions 1 and 4 (they’re the identical equation however ‘look’ totally different) and Query 5 and 6 (they ‘look’ the identical however are totally different equations). The total useful resource options a mixture of constructive, unfavorable and fractional gradients and a few questions the place given the equation the scholars must label the axes. It may be downloaded from sketchcpd.com. 

4. Nets
Thanks to @joann_sandford for sharing a characteristic of @MathigonOrg‘s Polypad that I did not learn about. You should use it to create and check nets of 3D objects. Try the gifs beneath the place I had just a little go myself. Within the second gif you possibly can see what occurs when you make an incomplete internet. It’s extremely straightforward and it is enjoyable! 

Someway I ended up presenting at three conferences in 4 days, which was demanding and a variety of onerous work, however sensible. I do love a maths convention.

On Wednesday I used to be on the Pixl Convention at The Oval in London. I am not a Pixl member so it was fascinating for me to get an perception into how Pixl helps maths lecturers by way of high-quality CPD, apps, sources and evaluation (for instance they supply mock exams – the type that college students will not have the ability to discover on-line! – and grade boundaries). It is a actually good mannequin. The convention itself was a bit totally different to typical – it was a sequence of very brief periods, which meant it was buzzy and high-energy with plenty of fast concepts. I did a ten minute keynote on problem. It was a enjoyable day, and the lunch was completely scrumptious!

On Friday I used to be on the Harris Federation convention. I work for a Harris faculty – yearly all Harris workers have an Inset in October on the Excel Centre, with effectively over 4000 individuals attending. Within the center a part of the day everybody goes to a role-specific session. I used to be requested by the maths guide staff to run the Key Stage 3 maths room which had round 130 delegates in it for a 2.5 hour session. It is a very long time to run a room on my own, so within the center a part of the session I had everybody spend time attempting out some difficult Key Stage 3 duties from mathsvenns.com, Don Steward, MathsPad and mathshko. Everybody received actually caught into these duties which was nice. It was ironic that I shared wonderful Don Steward duties when Harris Federation has blocked entry to Don Steward’s web site in all Harris faculties, and regardless of my requests they won’t unblock it. Extremely irritating. Anyway, when you attended this session then thanks in your wonderful engagement – when you work for Harris and also you need the slides, the maths guide staff will share them after half-term.

On Saturday I used to be in Manchester for #mathsconf30. This was sensible. With Rob Smith working a full tuck store, it felt like an actual return to the complete pre-covid expertise. I attended some wonderful periods and actually loved chatting to plenty of lecturers, lots of who had been at their first in-person convention. I introduced on Space in Depth which appeared to go effectively, regardless of some bizarre projector issues! For those who attended my workshop – thanks very a lot for coming – you possibly can entry my slides on my Topics in Depth page. After the convention, Craig Barton and I recorded a podcast at Piccadilly Station the place we shared our high suggestions from the convention. It is a super-short podcast (underneath half an hour!) so do have a hear.

For those who attended any of the three workshops I delivered this week and also you need to say thanks, you should buy me a drink here or assist me by paying £4 a month on Patreon. Many different maths web sites have adverts that present an revenue stream however I haven’t got any adverts to assist cowl the price of internet hosting my web site. So any donations are gratefully acquired. Thanks!

In any respect three conferences individuals requested me how my new function goes. I am actually having fun with being Head of Maths. It is good to do a task I really feel so assured in. I am fortunate I get to work with such an incredible staff. I’d weblog about some Head of Maths stuff over half-term. 

My sensible colleague Morgan made an incredible door show along with her tutor group for Black Historical past Month. It is fabulous. She received the graphics from Twinkl. Nira Chamberlain, who’s featured on the show, tweeted about it:

I am going to depart you with three good issues for you or your college students.