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  • An update on Planboard. My thoughts

    I said I’d post a few thoughts on Planboard when I got the chance, and I’d used it for a while, so here they are.

    Firstly, it completely suits the way my brain works. When I’m planning lessons, little bits of pieces of ideas will pop into my head at random times. Planboard is really good for this and it even has an iOS app so I can jot down a note when I’m in Sainsbury’s. The great thing is, that no matter where I access my planning I have the exact same version of the document.

    It’s also really delightful to be able to attach documents to my plan, so everything is one place and easy to find. It also means that if I’m doing something at home or at the weekend, I can quickly attach it to Planboard and not have to email it to myself. I can also add links into my plan really easily.

    I’ve always found paper planners difficult. I lose them, I forget to take them home, I can’t easily add locations and resources. I don’t think I’m overstating it to say that I’ve never been more organised and it’s really helped me this year.

    I suggest you try it. Also, it’s free!

  • The College of Teaching: Choose Your Own Adventure

    https://othmarstrombone.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/the-college-of-teaching-a-claim-your-own-adventure-story/

    Reblogging this because it’s funny and incisive.

  • Lovely Venns

    I was doing a lesson on LCM and HCF today and a student asked me if you could have a five or more set Venn diagram. A little bit of googling for a picture and we found this interesting interactive diagram that is well worth talking about.

    Colour mixing 7 set Venn Diagram

  • I love a GIF

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    From mathwarehouse.

    Any that you use a lot?

     

  • Planboard

    Does anyone have any experience using Planboard?

    It’s basically an online planner and it might suit my way of working better than a paper planner, which I am terrible at using (I forget to fill in some days, forget to look back at notes from previous days etc).

    I’m going to be trialling it this year. So far, I’m quite enthusiastic. You can add files to lessons, print them out, copy them across and, of course, write in descriptions of what you’re doing. There’s even an iPad app (I don’t own an iPad).

    If you’ve used it, comment below.

    During the term I’ll update the site and write some thoughts as to if it’s actually helped me, or is just another online tool that doesn’t improve on paper and pen.

  • Maths Bot

    Budgets in school are increasingly coming under scrutiny. One of the things that we’ve cut back on in our school is photocopying.

    This is an issue for me because I’m your typical worksheet teacher. A bit of it is laziness. It’s easy to differentiate by giving someone a sheet with differentiated questions. However, it’s becoming increasingly unfeasible to do this.

    A great website I plan to use a lot more this year is Maths Bot. There’s loads of sections, but the nice one for practising is called Differentiated Questions.

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    It gives you differentiated questions on selected topics to project. Lovely.

    In fact, the entire website is very nicely put together. Check-check-de-check-check it out.

  • What the hell?

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    How many students would know what to do here, or would be brave enough to go with their gut/ spot the pattern?

  • Artful Maths and the end of term

    A rejected Harry Potter title, that.

    Artful Maths is brilliant. Some lovely end of term activities on there. We’re running Curves of Pursuit as a session. I’ll be nagging my HOD to buy fancy coloured paper next year to do some lovely folding stuff. There’s more stuff like this in the ATM book Mathematical Imagery, apparently. I wouldn’t know. I haven’t bought the book because I’m tight. Shanghai are big on representations, and visualising stuff isn’t given enough. I’m obviously going to link to Don Steward now for a great example. I might rename this blog DON STEWARD LINKS.

    You could always have a go at Mandalas.

    I used to do the pirate game. Kids loved the pirate game, but it’s not got a great deal of mathematical content. It is REALLY fun, though.

    A few years ago I made Maths Pointless. I’m less proud of it every year. I wanted it to work like the ‘proper game’ with animations and all sorts. It kind of does but it’s stuck with the limitations of PowerPoint. At one point I thought about learning Flash or JavaScript to make a fancier version, but unfortunately that never happened. I got the idea from Mr Collins.

    Resourceaholic has some stuff for the end of term. Recently they celebrated their 1,000,000th visitor and there’s some good stuff on there. Not even my mum reads this blog 🙁

    You could also do some fun Rio stuff.

    Just don’t do a quiz, people. I’m really bored of quizzes.

     

  • Lovely Don Steward Task

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    bits and bobs

    Used with my year 10s on Friday. Interesting the different approaches. Some students dove straight into simultaneous equations. Some went for trial and improvement.

     

     

  • Fun Monday Puzzle

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    Credit: @mathematicsmastery