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Year 8 did some rotation today, so started with checking coordinates then drawing an arrow on a whiteboard then rotating it according to the instructions. Really reduced the misconceptions.

I searched in the menu solving equations then selected AO2 and AO3 ones in that menu and picked out the ones I wanted. I'm quite new to using it all myself but it was quite easily to get the hang of.
Could then make it into a word document with them all.

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Year 11 had a go at hidden equation GCSE questions. I found that despite being able to solve equations giving them one that was hidden in a problem caused it to all fall apart.
Rly enjoy exampro in being able to collate them all together easily.

Had a really good day at #MathsConf40. It was great to see everyone there and every session was brilliant.

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Year 8 have started our transformations topic starting with reflection, was quite a nice and relaxing lesson.
Off to Derby for Mathsconf tomorrow. Looking forward to it!

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It was a lot of marking papers today...
But 2 lessons not doing that year 8 did substitution and year 9 started probability.

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Year 11 had a reteach lesson today, last year I taught quadratic sequences differently, changed methods this year which really worked well for my year 10. Decided to teach the year 11s since they had completely forgotten the other method. They really preferred it.

They have not looked at cool 3D shapes, (a frustum is my favourite type of shape)
Just the boring run of the mill everyday shape.

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Year 10 got to do some isometric drawing and had a go at figuring out what shape was being described. Surprisingly number 5 was the one they got stuck on. Many said square.

Thought I'd escaped this!

But I also have the list where they don't need the whole lesson but just continued starter practice to fix smaller issues.
Resources im using is going to depend just because I don't want to reuse what they did before. AQA has topic tests which we will probably use with other stuff. 2/2

Ah ok
In class papers and starters they did badly on mostly, have had a running list of difficulties for a while. Before Christmas we did a numeracy test each week so most of those were fixed but got a couple from there.
Prioritising, currently have enough lessons left for 1 lesson per topic. 1/2

I'm a bit confused with this question, best resources for what? At this point only the list of topics have really been made.

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Last lesson of new content with my year 11 today. Everything after the holidays is going to be revision. I already have my list of topics for the starters and lessons.

I had my parallel group today and used these, they worked well.

So bees....

Thank you. Going to add this link to my presentation to make me remember.

That sounds really cool. Wouldn't be able to do electronics per student but might see (for future) about having an animation (or video) just continuing on the board.

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Year 8 had a go at perpendicular bisectors (went well) angle bisectors (less well) and equilateral triangles (well again) with a compass.
Had the original lines and angles drawn on a worksheet so one less thing for them to do.

An A Level mechanics question on inclined planes, with the answers in two different coloured pens. The students had 60 seconds each before passing the paper to their partner to continue. I think with a regular group I may have given them 90 seconds, but these were further maths students so 60 was enough.

An A Level mechanics question on inclined planes, with the answers in two different coloured pens. The students had 60 seconds each before passing the paper to their partner to continue. I think with a regular group I may have given them 90 seconds, but these were further maths students so 60 was enough.

In #MathsToday I tried @theteacherwins.bsky.social's idea of getting the students to take turns answering an #ALevelMaths question, to focus on clearly setting out their steps, so that the other person could pick up from where they got up to. It went really well, and they seemed to enjoy it!

Since I stole an image of the map online I can't put on TES but send me a message of your email and I'll send it across when I get to work tomorrow

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Year 10 looked at Inverse Proportion and I finally connected the graph for inverse proportion to the reciprocal graph. (How we x2 on one side so we multiply by the reciprocal to get the other side!)

They don't have to. But I did to make it.
PowerPoint only gives you the length and height of the line (not the actual length) but you can use Pythagoras to figure it out.

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Year 8 today looked at Scale
(And yes this is pretty much to scale!! With the 1cm: 20 miles)
Used Pythagoras to find the length of the line then scale factor to get it to be the right length between London and Birmingham for real life.

Unfortunately sometimes too many questions to fit on the board or better questions elsewhere than the book. Our students are pretty good at using reusable worksheets, but they are trained.

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Year 11s looked at Venn diagram notation.(Which I still find tricky myself past the basic ones)
Used the lovely Dr Austin task to shade in the areas.

A worksheet containing 12 questions for students to practise enlarging shapes where the scale factor is negative.

A worksheet containing 12 questions for students to practise reflecting shapes in mirror lines which have a gradient of 1 or -1.

Two new transformation worksheets:
✨ Harder reflections practice grid
✨ Negative enlargements practice grid
Corrected after my Year 9s found a couple of errors!
Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/transformations
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Year 9 looked at substitution today, substituting into our algebra tiles to start off with.

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Year 10s did their test today and since it was mostly the same as my last year 10 I could compare the scores. It's nice to know where I thought I had taught better they actually did considerably better on the exam.