Oh yes!!! Brilliant, thanks! I played it years ago, but totally forgot it existed!

Can you remind me of the rules please?

@mathspadnicola.bsky.social @mathspadjames.bsky.social nailing it again. I requested an addition to their website and a few days later, there it is. Incredible.

Did you write this after making some scales which go wonky coding? 🫣

Very nice! Now that’s done you’ll be moving on to those wonky scales!!

How did it go?

Delighted to see 1 included in my favourite probability lesson.

How does she find the time?!!?! Thank you!

I’m fairly sure that when I learnt these myself as a child I had no idea what ‘alternate segment’ meant, nor the relevance of chords in any of the theorems. I just memorised images I think. Understanding the language makes it so much easier!

With pleasure…I’ll set monthly/weekly/daily/hourly(?!) reminders. 😂

Given your remarkable skills……Any chance you can create weighing scales which algebra tiles can be placed on (which go wonky) when you haven’t done the same thing to both sides?! Pretty please?

In #mathstoday year 7 began converting recurring decimals to fractions by piecing together and manipulating 9ths, 99ths and 999ths. Such great fun!

Finding these videos useful and inspiring: www.ncetm.org.uk/maths-hubs-p.... Teaching maths really well often feels really hard. I’m guilty of resorting to ‘easy (less good) teaching’ but the video about full sentences is a useful reminder of simple deliberate practice that is highly effective.

Love that visualisation of the paper!

Yep mine too. Everything is just so beautifully crafted with understanding mathematics properly at its heart. But also, it’s clearly created by teachers so the tasks work brilliantly in a classroom of 30 real humans.

MATHSPAD IS THE BEST! MATHSPAD IS THE BEST!

Amazing

This is totally bonkers. A friend today was telling me that she’s got it making up questions similar to ones y13 got wrong on their mock, which also sounded bonkers. All bonkers but also exciting.

^on that

Not answering your question but reminds me of the wonderful more same less task that. www.more-same-less.co.uk/2024/08/on-t...

#Mathstoday
Year 8 finished their section on simplifying expressions ending with adding x^2 types to the mix. They also got to do some finding expressions of perimeter questions.

In #mathstoday I enjoyed solving this problem posed by a colleague.

I was wondering about this recently and my colleague drew on this rectangle which convinced me my assumption was right.

Great task after great task after great task! What a superb reminder many of the gems that exist!

Calling all Maths teachers!

What are some of your all-time great tasks for secondary Maths?

Ones that could have their place in any curriculum, one that should be studied in PGCE courses, ones that started whole new genres of tasks...
... or just ones you really like.

(see some of mine below)

What a great resource! Keen to find more algebra tile resources if anyone knows of any. www.purposefulmaths.com has been great!

This looks wonderful. Is it a resource you made yourself or could I find similar work on a website somewhere? I’m keen to find more algebra tile resources but haven’t come across many yet. TIA.

Two lessons down and the tile having a negative value hasn’t been a problem so far. I’m enjoying it!

The challenge with this was using equations with integer solutions which weren’t immediately obvious just looking at the equation. Didn’t want 3x+1=7 for example. So ended up using lots of pretty challenging equations with unknown on both sides and negative solutions.

In #mathstoday I braved using algebra tiles to solve equations. Not sure of success, but looking forward to watching students playing around with more equations tmrw.