5 Maths Gems #91

Welcome to my 91^st gems post. This is where I percentage merely about of the latest news, ideas in addition to resources for maths teachers.

1. World Cup Box Plots
Thanks to Southborough Maths (@Mathsteam1) for sharing these box plots created past times @johnwmillr. They present the distributions of acme past times seat for players inwards the World Cup. They brand for smashing discussions with students, in addition to supply a prissy demonstration of how box plots tin assistance us brand comparisons.

I've been using a like laid of graphs for years, every fourth dimension I instruct box plots (see my post on teaching box plots for to a greater extent than on this). It ever goes downwards well.

2. Variation Theory
Last calendar week Craig Barton launched a novel website packed sum of sets of good written questions for intelligent practice. Do banking enterprise friction match out variationtheory.com if y'all haven't already seen it.

'Rearranging formulae' past times Danielle Moosajee

'Mixed Bases' past times Joe Berwick 

Like Craig's other resources websites (SSDDs, Venns in addition to Diagnostic Questions), y'all tin submit your ain resources for inclusion on this website.

3. Fractions
Thanks to Berkeley Everett‏ (@BerkeleyEverett) for sharing this animation. This tin endure found, along alongside loads of other smashing animations, on the Math Visuals website. 

4. Compound Shapes
Thanks to Mark Ives (@MarkIvesTeach) for showing us how he used Numicon to back upwards students inwards identifying the lengths of sides inwards chemical compound shapes.

5. Coordinates Problems
Thanks to Dave Taylor (@taylorda01) for a sharing a laid of challenging coordinates problems (see this tweet in addition to this tweet) . Here are a duet of examples:

Update
Do maths teachers all nation things inwards the same way? At the Tweet Up inwards Manchester in conclusion weekend, I recorded a grouping of teachers maxim words that I've heard pronounced differently past times dissimilar maths teachers. I've picked 3 of these words for the start video from my pronunciation project:

Thank y'all to everyone who took part! It may non endure the most exciting video ever but I mean value it's actually interesting that students postulate heed dissimilar things from dissimilar teachers.

Here are a few other things y'all powerfulness stimulate got missed recently:

• ThinkMaths (@thinkmaths) are doing their annual giveaway of maths goodies - the 'Exciting Maths Toys for Excited Maths Teachers Mailout' - sign upwards now!
• I'll endure taking role inwards the Big Internet Math-Off inwards July - in addition to I'd actually appreciate your support! 
• Check out this great post from Alex Cutbill (@intersectarian) most the Definition of 'power' inwards maths. This is what I was talking most inwards my conference session in conclusion Saturday.
• Do banking enterprise friction match out the fantabulous laid of surds questions from Gillian Matthewson (@gmathewson1) on her new blog.
• The Nuffield Foundation written report "How create shortages of maths teachers impact the within-school allotment of maths teachers to pupils?" is worth a read.
• I recorded a podcast afterward the JustMaths conference alongside Craig Barton which is directly online - y'all tin head to it here. It's solely one-half an hour!

Ten years afterward nosotros did our PGCE together, I finally met upwards alongside Colin Hegarty! He came to my schoolhouse to launch Hegarty Maths at our start annual trust maths conference. This is actually exciting - Hegarty Maths is awesome. I loved trialling it alongside my Year 11s this year. Thank y'all to both Colin in addition to Simon Petri from the Surrey Plus Maths Hub for their fantabulous presentations.

It's all been a fleck crazy lately. Next calendar week I stimulate got an AQA Expert Panel Meeting, the BBO Maths Hub conference, a TTRS Rock Wrangle trip, in addition to prom. Then I tin relax!

I'll learn out y'all alongside this lovely ingredient tree puzzle from Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove), inspired by @HaroldReiter.