#Mathstoday My year 8 group worked on area of a rectangle, then finding the area of compound shapes. Pretty impressed by how much work they got done today!

#Mathstoday Teaching my Year 9 standard form slightly differently this time due to @jwrightmaths.bsky.social MathsConf session. Halfway through teaching positive Indies SF. Seeing how it goes, standard form is not my favourite topic.

#Mathstoday Year 11 moved onto Trigonometry again, so to start we need to recap last year's work so used this very nice mixed exercise from Dr Austin.

spent last week thrashing out expanding brackets with a grid/area model last week with grade 1-3 yr 10s, felt like I was going nowhere fast and encountering lots of difficulties. This morning did reverse process to factorise with same model. Insane success rate. #mathstoday

#Mathstoday Started Surds off with the year 10 with a challenge to write each number as a product of a square number and an integer. Led on nicely to introduce how to simplify Surds.

#Mathstoday Had my interactive whiteboard stop working for half the lesson. The second half wasn't interactive but at least they could see questions. Thank god for textbooks Half a lesson of indices practice textbook then half on fractional powers on the board.

#Mathstoday I was really happy with my year 11 lesson today. We did tangents to a curve, before they got the question we scaffolded each part (finding gradients, perpendicular gradients, substitution to find the line) then when they actually saw it for the first time they could easily do it!

#Mathstoday One of my year 11s had a problem with his DT coursework which he wanted help with and it was such a great problem I had to solve it... It took a while but also deep joy in doing it.

#Mathstoday What is people's favourite way to get students remembering their trig values needed for non calculator. When I was at school it was just memorise them (didn't work) now I sketch triangles to find them but I've also seen the hand method?

#Mathstoday Year 11s plotted equations of circles today (amongst other things) wanted to give them the pre drawn axis to save time but once again the printers decided not to work.

#Mathstoday Year 10 simplified algebraic fractions, looked at the main worksheet and went... They need more scaffolding before they do that.

#Mathstoday School Internet wasn't working very well so not as much done as would have been liked (at least next week is off for us) Some of my year 10s got to challenge themselves with these lovely Corbett questions.

Starting Surds after the holidays (only taught it once) Anyone got a nice way to start it as my group last year still had some issues after being taught and I know there's a better way.

#Mathtoday Had the realisation mid year 11 lesson that they could not draw linear graphs (which they needed to know for the upcoming task) so tried to print out axis to practice (printer wouldn't work) so went to drawing them by hand!

#Mathstoday Only had half of my year 11 class so we did loop cards for surface area and volume of similar shapes. (Cards are not in order as forgot to take a photo before collecting them)

#Mathtoday My ELC found fractions of amounts today using diagrams to help them. Since we use ActivInspire I could just drag and drop the diagram they needed. Also marked 27 higher maths papers in 2 hours 20 minutes! (Including inputting scores)

#mathstoday I've had in the past students finding it difficult to decide if an expression would factorise into a single or double bracket. So I created a mix of 20 questions to try and build that skill of deciding which one to use. Unsurprisingly a lot of them struggled. Better now than an exam!

#MathsConf39 So I wanted 10 people not 60.... Hopefully people enjoyed themselves (didn't realise I actually had 10 minutes left!)

So my #Matheconf39 session P2 has been moved to Hypatia. I did not pay attention when they said where that was as none of my sessions were there originally... I'm sure I'll find it

Just over 18 years later my apple tree has finally produced an apple! Been waiting 3 weeks to try this as the tree lives in my grandma's garden now. (It has lived in 3 different gardens)

#Mathstoday Love these questions the year 10s did for factorising quadratics. Gave students a lot of the scaffolding they needed allowing them to move onto similar ones without the scaffolding after.

#Mathstoday Year 8 worked on multiplying and dividing fractions today. Unfortunately I did not realise one of the solutions came to 6/7....

Just finished making my Mathsconf39 presentation. I was worried I wouldn't have enough to say, the opposite might actually be true (at least people can see the slides I miss when they get emailed out!) Also can I just say, I've not made a PPT in over 2 years so I am quite impressed with myself.

#Mathstoday Both of my year 9 classes did loads of substitution work today. Got the exercise from the foundation sumbooks 2002. They are available online as a pdf. Loads of questions if the students just need loads of practice.

#Mathstoday Year 11 looked at Magic squares today. Which leads onto factorising quadratics. Next lesson will be just factorising quadratics. (For some reason rotating won't work)

#Mathstoday Year 10 had a go at factorising single brackets. I think once we have a go at factorising double brackets I might make a mixed exercise as they tend to struggle to see if they are still single factorising when you have a x^2.

My current #MathsConf39 workshop choices: 1 - @robeastaway.bsky.social 2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social (I don't think I have a a choice here) 3 - @jwrightmaths.bsky.social 4 - Charlie Harber 5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices: 1 - Grace Wood & Aysha Rahman 2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social 3 - @mathsjem.bsky.social‬ 4 - @dagsmaths.bsky.social‬ 5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices: 1 - Emma Lockhart 2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social 3 - @mathsjem.bsky.social‬ 4 - Georgina Green 5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

#Mathstoday Today Year 11 looked at the relationship between volumes of similar shapes. There were some nice questions in the textbook (although somehow Q1 was harder than Q2 and 3)

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices: 1 - Parsa Hassan-Yazdi 2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social 3 - Lydia Davison 4 - @justmaths.bsky.social‬ 5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

#Mathstoday Tried teaching my year 9s how to use a calculator properly today (and not use the on button to remove your current calculation) It is complete and utter muscle memory for me, and I found myself doing it multiple times in the lesson accidentally.

#Mathstoday Year 8 have been doing this Improper Fraction and Mixed Fraction matching task today from MrWhy1089 on TES. Did this with 2 groups, first cut out everything, second only did diagrams and improper fractions to begin with. The second group ended up completing more overall.

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices: 1 - @robeastaway.bsky.social 2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social 3 - Jason Gottfried 4 - Georgina Green 5 - @mrmattock.bsky.social‬ Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

#Mathstoday My ELC group looked at shading fractions. After learning from last year they got more practice before we did the worksheets.

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices: 1 - Jack Jennings 2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social 3 - @mathsmuse.bsky.social‬ 4 - @justmaths.bsky.social‬ 5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices: 1 - Cate Fearn 2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social 3 - @jwrightmaths.bsky.social 4 - @joausten.bsky.social‬ 5 - Karen Hancock Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39 Not sure about my 3rd choice...

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#Mathstoday Year 10 found expressions for shaded areas. Made this last year for an extension but it was nice spending a bit longer on it.

#Mathstoday Year 10 started expanding multiple single brackets and collecting the like terms. Did much better then expected :D next lesson they get to do some of my favourite tasks with it. (To be shared then)

#Mathstoday Year 8 looked at equivalent fractions today and found which of the 2 fractions were larger.

#Mathstoday Year 9 have been working hard finding LCM and HCF with prime factorisation. (Controversial tree diagrams I know)

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#Mathstoday (yesterday) It's test week a few less lessons than normal. Year 11 worked backwards with volume problem solving questions. (Some pictured here) Had to make a mathswatch revision as too many of them wanted it during the starter, hopefully enough of them do it to make it worth it.

#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)