#Mathstoday Year 8 looked at equivalent fractions. While my year 10s played Prime Factory... Top score (unlimited time) was 193. The lesson ended.

#mathstoday After seeing @studymaths.bsky.social talk about the prime factory on whiteboards this week I decided for my year 9s to have a go as they were speeding through their prime factorisation work.

My yearly tradition of cheesecake, and using a multiplier on the ingredients to keep them in ratio but maximising cheese. No waste this year!

#Mathstoday Year 11 finished finishing arcs and areas of sectors without their calculators. While year 8 looked at inverse operations with multiplication and division.

#mathstoday (well yesterday but I was too tired to post) Year 11s started looking at finding arcs and areas of sectors without their calculators. Lots of simplifying fractions before multiplying out.

#Mathstoday Been doing alot of work with my ELC group, revision session for the next test done and all the sheets marked and ready to scan in (would someone like to scan in 17 lots of documents for me)

#Mathstoday My year 9s were really struggling with factorising so...stole one of Dr Austin's sheets, (expanding single brackets) and reversed it for factoring. It worked really well for both classes and gave them the scaffolding they needed.

#Mathstoday The year 10s were working on finding the surface area of sphere's, cylinders and comes using Dr Austin's brilliant worksheet. The lesson before was finding the volume.

#Mathstoday Year 11s have started their weekly numeracy tests. We have found their numeracy is weaker than most previous years (probably since they missed SATS practice) so they are getting weekly numeracy tests to try and close the gap.

#Mathstoday Year 8 were looking at negative numbers today. So I had Mathsbot up with the two-colour counters and the students had their own. I do wish they had double sided counted tho.

#MathsToday Year 8 looked at Square numbers and used them to problem solve sums.

#Mathstoday Year 11 did some Histogram work with the lovely Dr Austin Plotting Histogram sheet and Plotting incomplete Histograms. Put it double sided on A4 paper and it worked great.

Gave up and finally used my credit card details to verify my blue sky, after 20 plus times trying the face scan I still didn't look old enough.

#Mathstoday Year 8 looked at mixed LCM and HCF questions Yesterday year 11 compared distributions of box plots, not my favourite as well -writing. If anyone has good sentence structure comparing box plot questions would love them to be shared.

#Mathstoday The year 9s did lots of practice with expanding single brackets and simplifying. Sometimes you just need a lesson to do loads of practice.

#Mathstoday Thank you Jonny. In Year 10 we found the area of semi circles (and other compound circle shapes) tomorrow is all about the Perimeter.

#Mathstoday Year 10s got to look at area and the circumference of circles. Got to use one of my favourite pages of Mathsbot. (Any chance you can add an option for semi-circle or quarter circle Jonny)

Friday period 5 with the year 8s and we looked at how to make numbers by multiplying primes. It was very much a Friday P5 lesson could have gone better but at least most did work.

#Mathstoday Year 9s were practicing simplifying expressions today and did a pre check at the end of the lesson on what else they could remember for expanding brackets and factorising. Need to get some good extension work as some remembered much more than I expected!

#Mathstoday Today my year 8s looked at primes and we did the sieve of Eratosthenes. And this year I remembered that there is one on Mathsbot so no shading mid lesson! mathsbot.com/activities/s...

#Mathstoday My year 11s looked at Averages today as we compared the 2012 and 2024 women's 100m Olympic finals. Due to an injury the 2024 data is better to use medium than mean. (For the men the date is reversed with an injury in 2012)

Last day for me before school starts again tomorrow. Yes I am aware I am unusually early even for Leicester. Alarm clock is all set but I don't want to wake up that early still.

#mathstoday My year 8 LPA were using mathsbot today to help them collect like terms. It worked really well

It feels really weird to be in school today. Easter Revision session and I'm the only teacher in my building. 1 more session then Easter can properly begin!

#mathstoday For π day today my year 10s did a problem solving relay using maths box problems involving π ! Students that wrote down the answers in the groups were not allowed to explain, which led to really well presented working out with students teaching their classmates what each step meant.

Excited to see that #mathsconf37 tickets are on sale. I love a Sheffield mathsconf! Train tickets and hotel booked. Looking forward to seeing lots of you there. completemaths.com/community/ma...

#Mathstoday Did some interweaving with surds in sequences from @nathanday.bsky.social today as part of an extension. And no my class does not hate me somehow.

#mathstoday Half our year 7s have been on a school holiday which meant I have gotten to do my favourite maths project with those that were left over 3 lessons. The Farm activity, looking at area and perimeter. I did it when I was a year 7 student and I will do it again every chance I get.

#mathstoday Today we had a look at equivalent fractions. Visually seeing how certain fractions mean the same thing.

#mathstoday Used this lovely resource by @draustinmaths.com for year 9 today. Match up: Area of Parallelograms and Trapeziums. This question, number 7 in particular was very nice. Stumped quite a few of them.

#mathstoday It was a mufti day today so I got to wear my maths hoodie. It was really nice how the kids kept wanting to know what it said.

Look who made it over to @bsky.app 🤩

Has anyone actually used Ai to help lesson plan or create resources for maths? Our school is doing a CPD session on it and they asked us on a form what we would like to get out of the sessions and I have nothing positive to say. (Apart from that it can take old textbooks and digitise them)

#mathstoday I used the pen function on PowerPoint for the first time today when teaching. Never used PowerPoint interactive settings before and I hated it. Running back to my activinspire and never returning. It also crashed mid-using so I had no luck there.

#Mathstoday Today's lesson with my LPA Year 11 on proportion went badly. We used the simplest textbook exercise for it but they couldn't grasp the questions. If anyone knows of a very basic scaffolded worksheet for proportion I would love a suggestion. Redoing the lesson next week.

#MathsToday Back to school (had last week off) My year 11s looked at ratio in the form 1:n today. Honestly so proud of how confident they feel with the whole topic. Proportion next!

#WeeklyWins My bookshelf from my old classroom finally got moved to my new one!!! No more books in piles on the floor.

#MathsToday Got so distracted marking my year 10 exams that I completely forgot I had signed up for an AQA CPD event. Sorry Dave! I even forgot to drink my hot chocolate, just in the zone marking with a song playing on loop for nearly 3 hours.

In #MathsToday my Year 10s started Surds. First time teaching the topic and I think it went alright. Got an observation on it on Wednesday feeling alright about it.

Absolutely brilliant day at #MathsConf36 Every single session I was at nailed it. Exhausted now, time for an early night.

#mathstoday Honestly had so much fun going from a class doing fractional indices to a class that was practicing their 3 and 4 times tables today. I'm really liking the range I teach this year.

What are some good topics (apart from the obvious - area) that I could get my student to do that's ahead of the rest of the class in their multiplication. I don't want them getting bored but also they are well ahead of some of the others.

#MathsToday My year 10s worked on expanding triple brackets which is one of my favourite things for relaxing maths. A couple of them had a go at a challenging question to push themselves at the end! Achievement points for all that tried.

#MathsToday I think I'm finally getting the hang of the AQA ELC for maths. Found the external assessments and I feel more confident in what I'm doing. Pretty empty day, test feedback, tests or my ELC group doing ratio.

#mathstoday. I've been really thinking about the terminology we use when teaching subtracting with the use of borrowing. I think I really prefer using swap when changing a ten to 10 ones/units. Swap also works both ways instead of 'carrying over' with addition. Be interesting people's thoughts.

In #MathsToday my year 8's (6 kids, intervention style) played some nice number stacks games. We worked on our number bonds to 10 and adding 2 single digit numbers together. Got more games to play for next week where we will be doing subtraction from 20.

In #MathsToday I got a spare 10 minutes at the end of one of the lessons so my small group of year 11s had a go at beat the clock on mathsbot. Completely engrossed by it. (The photo is not actually their game but mine that I stopped at 27 as that was their best score)

Just heard that I passed my last module for a level 2 qualification on ACEs I've been doing. Very happy.

A few years ago, I made about 200 of these daily maths puzzles aimed at Year 6 and using the combined knowledge taught in KS2. mrsfclassroom.wordpress.com/2021/05/02/d... #EduSky #PrimaryMaths

And the alarm is set for tomorrow morning. 2 days for staff only then the students are back Tuesday.