Newsletter 6
your learning, your future Hello and welcome to week 6’s Maths Newsletter. Problem solving book With the new Maths GCSE focussing massively on problem solving it is important that once our pupils have got confident with the basics of a topic we do expose them to more complex problems. Finding these problems can be tough though. My personal favourite for these sort of tasks is still Don Steward’s Median Website and nrich also has a great selection of activities (although many I find are quite difficult to always implement with a whole class). To go along we these the fantastic people at La Salle Education have released a booklet of problem solving questions for all across the ability spectrum. You can find them here: http://lasalle-education.com/index.php/free-resources and attached to the email. Collecting In Work How do you collect in work to be marked? Having it open on the piece of work you are going to mark is great for saving those precious minutes when marking work. Getting students to reflect on how they feel they are doing in lessons is the premise of the plenary and something some feel is important for promoting progress. Getting pupils to put their exit tickets/books into three piles (Fully Understood/Kind of Understood/Not got a clue) could be useful both as an AfL technique and a way of encouraging self-reflection. Have a read about how one teacher in America is using this here: http://teachlikeachampion.com/blog/exit-tickets-encourage-selfreflection/ Resource Website Can you have too many resources to choose from? Possibly. Here’s another website I read about this week. http://www.drfrostmaths.com/profile.php?user=JFrost I haven’t used it yet but it looks like there are some nice tasks on there.
Maths Puzzle Last week’s puzzle was particularly fiendish and nobody submitted a correct response. The answer was the area of a little circle was 1cm2. This could be found by working out that the radius of the big circle was 6 times the radius of a little circle. For a more detailed proof speak to me. (My scrawled notes from my solution were too horrible to scan.)
This week’s puzzle As we’ve been doing plenty index laws this term have a look at this:
𝑥 and 𝑦 satisfy 2𝑥 = 10 and 100𝑦 = 246. What is the value of 𝑥𝑦?
1 week till the holidays. Let’s make it a good one!
Maths Puzzle Last week’s puzzle was particularly fiendish and nobody submitted a correct response. The answer was the area of a little circle was 1cm2. This could be found by working out that the radius of the big circle was 6 times the radius of a little circle. For a more detailed proof speak to me. (My scrawled notes from my solution were too horrible to scan.)
This week’s puzzle As we’ve been doing plenty index laws this term have a look at this:
𝑥 and 𝑦 satisfy 2𝑥 = 10 and 100𝑦 = 246. What is the value of 𝑥𝑦?
1 week till the holidays. Let’s make it a good one!
