Whilst walking my dog this morning I took this photograph of a rainbow. Ironically, considering the fact it has been in the local and even national news this week, the rainbow is arching over our local secondary school, Penistone Grammar… Continue Reading
Sean Hartford wrote an interesting blog post earlier this month on the OfSTED blog attempting to reassure us that OfSTED inspectors will not request predictions for cohorts about to take examinations but they will just ask how schools have assessed… Continue Reading
It is almost March and so it is time to release the March “Little bit of maths each day” revision calendars. Both these are designed to be NON-CALCULATOR. Download and use as you wish – if you want the editable… Continue Reading
Today I attended the northern launch of the Chartered College of Teaching in Sheffield. I want to make some very preliminary reflections on the morning. (Unfortunately the lure of Sheffield United vs Scunthorpe United was too great – in fact… Continue Reading
I’m experimenting with some of the more complex questions that will be asked in the forthcoming GCSE examinations – the sort of questions which often draw together a number of areas of mathematics. Of course the best way to answer… Continue Reading
Quite a while ago I posted about some homework I’d been trialing involving students choosing the homework they wished to do. The work was loosely based on Blooms Taxonomy. I’ve decided to revisit this with a low ability year 8… Continue Reading
Its that time again! February’s revision calendars are now available. The theory behind these remember is that if you do a little bit of maths revision each day, its better than leaving it all to the couple of weeks before… Continue Reading
Not particularly earth shattering, but I found this interesting (if not surprising). Teaching percentage increase and decrease with a year 9 group I started the first lesson on this topic with two diagnostic questions. There were 28 students in the… Continue Reading
As a seasonal revision lesson for my Y11 intervention group, I’ve come up with this activity. It is essentially a follow me card sort. Twelve questions – (calculator needed for most) with 12 answers. Start anywhere then work out the… Continue Reading
Christmas holidays are just round the corner (well I finish on Friday 16th anyway) so I think the January calendar needs to go out this week. I intend giving these out so my students can seamlessly continue their “little bit… Continue Reading