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June 05, 2011

Enrichment Project

Follow-up to A Level Enrichment Task – Logarithms and Exponentials from Nicholas's Blog

I enjoyed the A Level enrichment task on creating an Investigation into Logarithms and Exponentials.

Designing this resource helped to remind me of the many ways that these topics have uses in the real world, something that is easily forgotten when trying to fit the A Level syllabus into a small number of lessons! Unfortunatly we were unable to explore this with A level students as intended, however it seemed to be appreciated by our fellow PGCErs, and it was interesting to see how quickly viruses can spread!

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January 27, 2011

A Level Enrichment Task – Logarithms and Exponentials

Writing about web page /gdmilsom/entry/enrichment_task/

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January 17, 2011

SCT 5 – Interactive ICT Resource

Please find attached a resource to be used with an A Level class looking at Volumes of Revolution.

volumes_of_revolution.pdf

volume_of_cone.agg

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January 14, 2011

Maths classroom displays

Writing about web page /jneill/entry/maths_classroom_displays/

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Here is a link to Justin's blog with photographs of all the displays....

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January 13, 2011

SCT4 – Wall display

Writing about web page /briancuttell/entry/group_3_sct4/

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SCT3 – Maths Trail at Warwick Castle

Writing about web page /briancuttell/entry/sct_task_3/

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January 08, 2011

Russian Peasant Multiplication

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Jack wrote this up much better than I could have.....

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January 04, 2011

Group Lesson plan – Adding fractions

Writing about web page /briancuttell/entry/fractions_lesson_plan/

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October 21, 2010

Showing where the Trig ratios come from

Writing about web page /gdmilsom/entry/circles_and_trig/

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October 10, 2010

Data handling task

Writing about web page /emartin/entry/statistics_task_design/

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Another statistics investigation - looking at the differences between an open and a closed task

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Data from Statistics investigation – Helicopters

Writing about web page /emartin/entry/helicopter_task/

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Introducing Gradients of Curves to Y12

Writing about Differentiation Task from Louise's scary teachingness

Here is a brief idea of how to introduce the topic of Differentiation to an A Level class in an interesting way....

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Session on the use of Questioning in the classroom

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Some notes from the session last week

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A Method For Teaching Factors

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An interesting approach to teaching factors (stolen from Graham!), based on techniques used in Primary schools.

..... They use the idea of a "factor bug". The bug's body is drawn and the number (e.g. 12) is written inside the body. Two antennae are then drawn and the "cheeky factors" (1 and 12) and written on the end of the antennae. Since bugs always have two antennae, kids know that these numbers will always be there. They then look for other factors, and realise that for most numbers, they must always come in pairs. So for each factor they find, they draw a leg on the bug and write the factor at the end of the leg (e.g. 3). Since factors come in pairs, they look for the other one and draw another leg (e.g. 4). So they see that they always have an even number of legs. The one scenario this doesn't work for is square numbers, where the factor doesn't come in pairs. In this case, they write the odd factor on a tail.

This helps kids to see different numbers as different bugs. They can look at a bug with 25 on, and see that it's a square number immediately by the fact it has a tail. They can see if a number is prime if the bug has no legs or tail. And so on.

I think this is a really neat way of introducing kids to the idea of factors and can get them used to the different factors that certain numbers have, as well as improving their knowledge of their times tables. The main downside that I see is when prime factorisation is introduced, as the idea cannot really be extended easily to incorporate this concept. Still, I think it's a pretty neat way of writing down factors for younger kids.

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Assessing Pupils' Progress

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/335461?uc = force_uj

APP as part of the National Strategies lays out a framework for teachers to Assess for Learning with consistency. The main benefit that I have taken from it is that it gives a much clearer indication as to what is expected of pupils at each "level" in the National Curriculum. APP focuses on the ongoing assessment of a pupils' work rather than an end of year test. It allows both pupils and teachers to have a clear picture of where they are up to and which areas need to be focued upon.

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