Tuesday, September 25, 2012

5 Maths Gems #79

Welcome to my 79th gems post. This is where I portion some of the latest news, ideas together with resources for maths teachers.

1. Percentages
Miss Konstantine (blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.
Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar activity, which is at i time linked inward my resource library.

2. TES Freebies
I've never bought a resources from TES earlier only final calendar week I establish i that is going to salve me a huge sum of fourth dimension together with printing budget... For my blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.
Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Papers Society I accept to impress a lot of GCSE papers, which is actually expensive given that GCSE papers are unremarkably around twenty - xxx pages long. Thankfully I establish that a teacher (tpayne89) has pose a lot of endeavour into cutting a alternative of GCSE papers downward to brusk A5 booklets - the resources is here

I know that some of you lot are hence annoyed that TES at i time sells resources that you'd never contemplate buying one, only the balance of you lot powerfulness produce goodness from the fact that TES are offering a £5 voucher for get-go timer buyers to purchase a resources during Nov (use the code NOVEMBERNEWBIE).

3. Prime on a Lime
Inspired past times 'Elf on a Shelf', Chris Smith (@aap03102) shared this movie on Twitter...
We had fun guessing the rhyming phrase for this movie together with others shared past times Chris... together with and hence other people joined inward together with made their own. Julia Smith (@tessmaths) collected them together inward a padlet - come across if you lot tin gauge them all!

4. Key Stage iii Support
Thanks to Lisa Pollard (@booleanmathshub) for sharing the NCETM's recent publication 'Teaching for Mastery: Questions, tasks together with activities to back upwardly assessment inward Key Stage 3'. It contains lots of useful inquiry prompts that schools could contain into their Key Stage iii Schemes of Work - hither are 2 examples:


5. Mental Arithmetic
This is something that maths teachers volition enjoy! Thanks to Paul Godding (@7puzzle) for sharing arithmetic.zetamac.com. This game is highly addictive! It's fun trying to shell your personal best.
Update
In instance you lot missed them, my recent posts were 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.
Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Success Stories: Core Maths' (thank you lot to everyone who commented on this!) together with 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.
Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar The Wonderful World of Maths Resources'.

If you're an H5N1 score teacher, produce accept a read of the post 'blog post about how she teaches percentages of amounts. In it she shared a lovely activeness where the master copy sum isn't given only a dissimilar percent is.
Don Steward liked this thought hence much that he made a really similar Strength inward Numbers'.

The MA is currently inward talks alongside the other maths bailiwick associations nearly amalgamation. I mean value that the creation of a unmarried maths bailiwick association would hold out a really of import stride frontward for our profession. I encourage you lot to add together your catch here, whether you're a fellow member of the MA or not. Thank you lot to everyone who has already done so.

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I'm off to my get-go e'er MathsJam Annual Gathering adjacent weekend! Exciting stuff. I'm looking frontward to seeing lots of you lot there.

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