Maths for Teaching

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Just a quick post to collate together some of the (Mainly A Level) things I have put together over the past few months. Been posting to BlueSky and enjoying it! Differentiation Starter Just a fun little starter for my Year 13s to see what they could remember at the start of the year Linear Interpolation…

Recent Worksheets July 2023

Completion Table Hype Train Been trying to use spare time at work to make some more worksheets and activities – Been on a Completion Table Hype Train recently so that is the bulk of what I am making at the moment – In general just trying to make any worksheet that I need has been…

Surds Extensions

Saw this great question on the 2016 UKMT Senior Maths Challenge and wondered whether it would be possible to make some of my own. I had just been teaching Surds and wanted some nice enrichment that linked surds to indices. I realised that you can nicely create your own by working backwards from the answer…

Creating from UKMT

The wonder of the UKMT I have said before on this blog that I absolutely adore the UK Maths Challenge as a way of massively improving your problem solving skills and using preexisting tools in totally new ways. It’s also an absolute goldmine for interesting purposeful practice. One of my favourite way of creating resources…

Quadratics on Quadratics

Stacks of Quadratics Firstly I would urge you to try the question in the photo yourself. It requires some knowledge of powers and solving quadratics and is wonderfully satisfying to find all SIX solutions. Looking at easier examples Questions like this are a great example of finding creative ways to practice fundamental skills. In this…

Factor(is)ing

Asking “What is Factorising?” The majority of the time, when I hear this question asked in class I have heard the word “Brackets” come up in the response. As a teacher when I hear this answer I generally take it as correct – The student has clearly remembered part of the method behind factorising and…

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These posts are usually based around a specific worksheet or classroom activity that we have tried or created and would like to share – although thinking about learning is not limited to teachers so we everyone can take something from these posts!

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