Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #186

1. 1st Class Maths

I love the quality of all the 1st Class Maths practice papers and resources. The questions are all original – these are not just collections of past paper questions. At my school we always make good use of these resources in our GCSE revision lessons. 

To give you an idea of the quality of the 1st Class Maths papers, here are a couple of the more challenging questions from the AQA-style higher paper:

2. OCR Puzzle of the Week

Every Friday OCR share a maths puzzle on social media using the hashtag #OCRMathspuzzle. I last featured these in a Gems post three years ago (Gems 154). Here are some recent examples.

By the way, if you’re new to my blog then you might want to take a look at my back catalogue of gems posts. These posts are packed full of inspiration for both new and experienced maths teachers – they feature over ten years’ worth of resources and ideas.

3. Dr Austin

Thank you to Amanda Austin for continuing to share so many new resources on draustinmaths.com. Her latest resources include tasks for quadratic inequalities, set notation, algebraic proof, equations, completing the square and proportion.

4. Guess the Angle

The team at Dr Frost continue to work on upgrading the PowerPoints on drfrost.org. These PowerPoints and accompanying resources can be downloaded for free and cover a wide range of topics from primary through to A level.

My friend @PaulRodrigo2718 is on the team of authors – his excellent set of lessons on bearings was recently published. His slides are full of clever explanations and animations. This slide on airport runways does a far better job of explaining runway numbers than I’ve done in the past (download the resource so you can see the animations).

If you visit the Dr Frost resources page then you’ll see a list of lessons recently published. Here are a couple more extracts: 

For use in my recent Year 12 lessons I created a booklet for teaching Binomial Hypothesis Testing. There’s lots of scaffolding in this. You can download it from TES or find it in my Statistics Resource Library.

I’m really looking forward to #mathsconf37 on 15th March in Sheffield. If you’ve not been to a mathsconf before then this would be a great time to try it out. It’s always very inspiring to spend the day with maths teachers. Come to my workshop ‘Fun with Factorising’ if you like a bit of algebra. 

Speaking of conferences, I attended the Harris Federation Maths Conference on an Inset Day last week. The excellent Emma McCrea did the keynote, and I enjoyed a session on A level problem solving with Sinead Vaughan from the AMSP and a session on the Large Data Set with Jocelyn Stockbridge from Edexcel. Here’s a photo of me with the members of my wonderful team who attended the conference.