Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #160

Thank you to @nathanday314 for sharing some excellent percentages resources. Check out this thread for more like this, and links to the tasks that inspired these resources. 

Back to School 

These pages are always popular in August and September:

• My Year 7 Maths Activities post which features ideas for first lessons with Year 7
• My Displays page which contains loads of fantastic maths displays for corridors and classrooms

Update

I’ve created a new page listing maths education conferences in 2022/23. There’s not much on it yet, so please let me know of any upcoming conferences that I can add.

Did you see that Rob Eastaway has teamed up with Shakespeare improviser Rebecca MacMillan to run a series of talks for Key Stage 4 students in Birmingham in November? Much Ado About Numbers – Maths & Shakespeare presents a unique opportunity for a joint trip for Maths, English and History departments. I bet it will be brilliant.

I officially finish my Assistant Principal role and become Head of Maths on 1st September. I spent the first week of the holidays getting stuck into Head of Maths stuff, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I made a number of curriculum changes, rewrote our schemes of work, created assessments, planned first lessons, that kind of thing… I’ve also spent some time planning lessons for Certificate of Further Maths which I’ll be teaching for the first time from September. I have a class of 32 excellent Year 11 mathematicians raring to go. After taking a four year break from teaching A level to set up a new school, it’s lovely to have calculus back in my life. And trig identities! As much as I’ve enjoyed focusing on Key Stages 3 and 4 for the last few years, these topics are my happy place.

I’m off on holiday with my family for two weeks tomorrow – we’re heading to a cottage in Cornwall. I can’t wait. When I get back, I’m looking forward to a couple of chilled weeks at the end of August, including catching up with maths teachers at Dr Frost’s triannual drinks.

I’ll leave you with this picture tweeted by @p_millerd. I know a lot of people who’ll relate to this!