In #MathsToday Oxford Mathematics have opened school applications for the pilot of our new free GCSE Maths mentoring scheme aimed at getting pupils from grade 7 up to grade 8 or 9 (or equiv.), with Oxford students as mentors. Now we just need schools to sign up! www.maths.ox.ac.uk/outreach/oxf...
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ID'd brand of watch and that it's being used as a random number generator, probably for a team based thing, hence inner numbers to indicate team. Could be wrong but that fits perfectly.
Posted, thank you for reminding me! I forgot about that sub.
If I get no identification, I'm going with our original guess of actual real alethiometer.
@teakayb.mathsy.space as a maths historian, any ideas?
It might be nautical maths somehow.
But then why does the dial spin when you crank the top bit?
Do the numbers match up? That could be it. The person who owned it is deceased so we can't ask.
Old timey not stop watch. Numbers handwritten and out of order.
Any ideas what this is? When wound it spins round with a sort of clacking noise.
Some tasks to round up a unit on speed, distance and time for my foundation GCSE class. #mathstoday #mathsteaching
My favourite cat expression is my younger cat's face when his big sister is out of the house and he goes and sits where she normally does.
Mad panic, looking around, but also very proud of himself for sitting in the big box. No photo, he got paranoid and ran away when I looked at him.
Another session at #mathsconf40 was looking at some of the fantastic NCETM Checkpoint activities with @garethshadick.bsky.social - some great discussions were had!!!
Highly recommend these resources, there are lots of additional links and guidance on PPTs.
www.ncetm.org.uk/classroom-re...
After Feb mocks, I told my yr 13 off for writing QED where it didn't belong.
We just did a full set of papers and one of them has written it after every question.
And after his name.
What?!
Whelp, I guess I shouldn't be surprised but I thought they were tested back when they were used as wound plugs, unless that's an urban legend.
In #MathsToday my yr 11 did 20 mins then mark then 20 mins then mark of a paper and then we looked at grade boundaries and where they could have easily gained a few marks. Many were shocked at how easy it would have been for them to go up a grade if they knew/did some simple things.
GCSE Foundation 'Best Guess' for Paper 1 available to download here:
www.mrchapmanmaths.com/revision
Will upload solutions over the weekend
thirteen charts. wildly different. some are circles, others crosses, horizontal lines, vertical lines, randomly scattered, and also, a picture of a dinosaur
i think my favourite version of anscombe's quarter is the "data dinosaur"
all thirteen of these graphs have the same mean, variance, and correlation
when people graph an average value, and nothing else, they're lying to you
Out in the garden watching the cats watch the robot lawnmower.
I'm also cheating because another school in our trust uses them for teaching so I just use theirs for intervention. Easy peasy.
I use booklets for interventions religiously now. So handy and they can take away a booklet filled with everything they need to work on if you make it into a multi week booklet.
I'm so tired of explaining to students that maths is different in that there's no "I'm bad at paper 2, I need to practice paper 2" type thing.
That makes sense.
I suppose at post 16 it makes more sense as they still do link in pure a bit.
Huh. That's about when I did my GCSEs and I have no memory of this.
I really do need to do some deep dive into GCSE maths of the past.
I do not!
Genuinely, was it actually bad? This was my morning ponder as I walked into work.
Why don't we consider themed papers for maths GCSE reform?
So that we have a stats paper like in a level and maybe a functional paper and an algebra paper or something?
It could potentially help students because they could focus their revision per paper because they'd have a better idea of topics.
Have I done my coursework? No.
Have I read multiple books and planted new plants? Yes.
Not the most useful of breaks, but at least I'm well rested.
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Small one earred black cat sniffing a tumbler on a garden table
Here's other cat, curious about my drink. She's the smart one.
White and black cat sat at a garden table with a kindle. Early morning light.
Start the final day of break right.
Not in picture: other cat and cup of raspberry ripple matcha.
