Because it isn’t obviously misleading or confusing. I think you’re being overly pedantic for the sake of it.
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I didn’t have time to accurately measure and it’s a representative sketch? Could be wrong but the acute numbers go with acute angles?
Can you apply key stage 3 or 4 algebra in a meaningful or purposeful way?
Some tasks to round up a unit on speed, distance and time for my foundation GCSE class. #mathstoday #mathsteaching
Nice. Thank you
Yep, fair point. How would you rephrase them? The wording has always been a weakness of mine. Must admit to using copilot to rephrasing for me more and more.
“Know f**king chance”, as I once heard it referred to.
Yeah, at gcse level I would say so. You’d only really use a vertex in relation to polygons.
In #mathstoday we looked at turning points. And we’ll try these tomorrow
As is said elsewhere, it’s a particular part of the overall QA process. I use it as a way of checking that our feedback policy is being adhered to. But I also find, almost invariably, that the quality of work and the care over the book (ignoring handwriting quality) do reflect lesson obs.
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Is that one of those "no right answers" type of questions?
Can I ask what your approach is to finding the gradient from a line? I've started using the idea of drawing triangles, scaling to a movement of "right 1 square". Wondered from Qs3 - 7 if you do too?
Interesting approach. I'm not sure if I rush into it too quickly. I basically use a multiplication grid, then find what I need to change the constant by. Obviously a bit of run up to notice that coefficient of x will always be halved.
#mathstoday returning to Pointon and Sangwin's taxonomy to try and create a small summary activity for factorising quadratics back into two brackets. Bit rusty, not sure I've quite got it right, would love some feedback from any #mathsteachers #ukmathsteachers
This looks a little like how I start looking at completing the square. What’s your approach to that out of interest?
I got a dollar on holiday in America once.
Then my dad was giving me a basic explanation of exchange rates and on some level I realised I’d been conned out of my usual pound.
So for a bit of context, the students get a formula sheet that uses a for coefficient of x^2, b for coeff of x and c for constant. Makes sense to go off those I would say.
Beginnings of work on quadratic formula. Task 4 very specifically designed for this particular group, who frustratingly keep changing cases on variables. #mathstoday #ukmathsteachers
Yes! This is the only way to go about it!
Hopefully there’s enough going on so
it doesn’t get too samey throughout. I wanted to avoid just putting the radius in all the time.
6 they found difficult, but once they had the idea they found 7 pretty straightforward. All of them who got to 8 made the obvious error. It’s a bottom set, but I was really proud of how they tackled it!
Got to say, delighted with how that went.
Glad it worked well. My turn tomorrow!