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@nathanday.bsky.socialIn #MathsToday, a Friday afternoon lesson with Year 8 called for some Prime Factory (mathsbot.com/puzzles/prim...) and Find the Primes (mathsbot.com/puzzles/find...) to support our recent work on simplifying/equivalent ratios.
Sadly, I didn't beat either of my high scores.
@nathanday.bsky.socialToday was another day of teaching Computer Science, so not much was done in #MathsToday.
In Year 9 we've been practising our skills with strings (interwovenmaths.com/strings), Year 8 were looking at logic gates and building some circuits with (logic.ly/demo/), and Year 7 were doing more Flowol!
@nathanday.bsky.socialMore details about MathsBot membership, which gives access to many hundreds of amazing tasks, the MathsBot curriculum, and ad-free mode, can be found here:
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Very much worth it!
@nathanday.bsky.socialIn #MathsToday, Year 10 were doing some averages from frequency tables.
They started with this from one of @studymaths.bsky.social's #1001MathsBots [table not revealed at first!].
And then moved on to some variationy practice questions.
@nathanday.bsky.socialIn #MathsToday, Year 8 have started a chapter on Ratio and Proportion.
Certainly a contender for one of my favourite topics to teach. And it is one with a lot of particularly lovely NCETM Checkpoints to choose from - these are two highlights for me.
@nathanday.bsky.socialI'll let the students be the judge of whether my handwritten answers are as clear as the typed ones... Realistically, a handwriting course would probably be the best CPD I could do to improve my teaching!
@nathanday.bsky.socialIn #MathsToday, following a not-so-great performance on the vectors question in last week's CP1 assessment, Year 13 FM did some Vectors practice questions.
These focused on key vectors skills.
Tackling tricky vector modelling questions is a job for later in the week.
@mathyawp.bsky.socialReposted by @nathanday.bsky.socialMy piece "The Two Timelines" is in the most recent issue of the Notre Dame publication Virtues and Vocations. What does Star Trek have to say about our current moment with Large Language Models?
@nathanday.bsky.socialThe first resource to get me hooked on the Revision Mat was Access Maths's brilliant '100 Questions!' GCSE Crossover page, which I've used with many a Year 10/11 class.
Can be found here, near the bottom, below a load of other grade revision resources:
www.accessmaths.co.uk/revision-res...
@nathanday.bsky.socialIn #MathsToday, Year 13 Further Maths had a lesson in the morning to revise for an afternoon Core Pure 1 assessment.
I printed off a nice double-sided A3 revision mat.
There's something about that format that I find feels more approachable than 50 questions in a list!
@nathanday.bsky.socialor is it even a structured variation grid...? @studymaths.bsky.social
@nathanday.bsky.socialIt's tricky to do a proper #MathsToday today as I've spent all in Bristol for a meeting.
However, I've managed to spend a bit of time on the train back planning some Year 8 Ratio lessons, which reminded me of this rather unusual Combining Ratios Completion Table.
@nathanday.bsky.socialI work at an all-girls school, and wanted my displays to be more relatable to my students than other, otherwise similar, resources. Hence also the focus on applications rather than pure maths.
@nathanday.bsky.socialA nice explanation of the method and why it works (essentially a shortcut of the shortcut that is the substitution method) from the excellent blackpenredpen can be found here:
@nathanday.bsky.socialIn #MathsToday, I introduced some students (and colleagues) to Oliver Heaviside and his 'cover-up method' for partial fractions.
While not ideal for exams, as it isn't much of a written method, I find it a handy check and I'm surprised so many haven't heard of it!
@nathanday.bsky.socialPretty much!
@nathanday.bsky.socialI'm afraid not - both for copyright reasons and technical limitations (it currently only runs locally as a Mac app). I might, at some point, make a public version that doesn't host any of the questions - just has the categorisation/filters then links to the official papers/mark schemes?
@nathanday.bsky.socialIn this case, I narrowed down the topic to similar triangles, sorted by performance, and found a couple of suitably interesting questions.
@nathanday.bsky.socialIn #MathsToday, Year 10 did some exam question practice based on recent work on Similar Shapes.
This term, I have been very much enjoying the benefits of having spent part of my summer holiday building a 8000+ question database of all GCSE Maths past paper questions.
@nathanday.bsky.socialThis, and all my previous MathsToday posts, can be found at:
interwovenmaths.com/mathstoday
