White Rose Maths – Primary Booklets

From White Rose Maths, a range of colourful and very attractively presented booklets is available free on Amazon. The booklets can be found on Amazon for the Kindle or downloaded as pdf files from the White Rose Maths Parent Workbooks page. There is one booklet for each of the White Rose Maths blocks for Year 1 to Year 6. The booklets could be used alongside the Primary Assessments.

White Rose Maths – Primary Assessments

Staying with primary resources, Miss A has shared her (free) Maths overview 1-6 on TES Resources. This curriculum overview for years 1-6 includes the main parts of the National Curriculum, White Rose guidance links and a link to the NCETM maths mastery assessment document.

Miss A has also created overviews for English and Science.

So, to the other end of the school, for Year 13 Further Mathematics, an update to my post on Further Calculus (for Further Mathematics). We can use WolframAlpha or Desmos for Improper Integrals.

The image shows this resource on Improper Integrals from the University of Pennsylvania, a clear presentation with worked examples.

Such integrals could be shown using WolframAlpha or Desmos. In Desmos, simply type b=infinity for the upper limit. For more on Integration with Desmos, see Learn Desmos: Integrals.

Desmos – Integration

Knowledge Organisers is a very popular post, I see Nicola Whiston has been very busy with her Year 10 collection.

There has been a great deal of interest in my post on HELM notes, note that in Section 48 we have Engineering Case Studies, which provides a compendium of Engineering Case Studies illustrating many applications of Mathematics. I like the way each case study starts by stating the Mathematical Skills involved.

HELM Notes (48)

The example above seems like a good excuse to show some holiday pictures! (Photograph by David Young).

Summer GCSE Calendars – Mr Chadburn

Keeping Year 10 going over the summer…from Mr Chadburn who has produced calendars for July and August which can be given to Year 10 students for daily practice of key mathematical skills over the summer break.

For A complete set of A Level Statistics and Mechanics Knowledge Organisers – see these resources from Lucyjc.  These resources are available free on TES Resources: Statistics and Mechanics. All include Key Words and Definitions and What Do I Need to Know sections.

And for Pure Mathematics, we have from @misschakera a set for the first year of A Level.

I have added all these very attractively presented resources to this post on Knowledge Organisers which includes links to resources and very importantly the use of knowledge organisers.

OCR Planning – Support highlights

Staying with A Level, from OCR – see the new resources for A Level to help planning for 20-21 Schemes of Work. New resources are available: new Curriculum Planners, Support Highlights & Resource Plus Mapping resources. Look under ‘Planning’ for: OCR Maths A and OCR Maths B (MEI). The mapping document illustrates the many resources on the Cambridge International Resource Plus site that can be used for A Level teaching. The Support Highlight documents provide a very useful overview of the support available for teachers.

Dan Pearcy

From Seneca’s Virtual Conference, I learned of a new site to most definitely keep an eye from Dan Pearcy.

New content will be added and I am very much looking forward to exploring this site. There is already much food for thought here.

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Note the very useful summary of Seneca’s free Distance Learning & Home Study Program in Flavia Belham’s blog post.

And finally…
An excellent read from Blake Harvard, Desiring Difficulties asking how do we get students to desire the difficulties produced by more effective learning strategies? Note the poster available at the end of the post. Try demonstrating what works to the students – let them see the effectiveness of the strategies discussed.

Talking to students about effective learning strategies I have always found the resources from the The Learning Scientists so useful.

For valuable resources to support the techniques described here see the excellent downloadable materials on study strategies. Note how each strategy is backed up by research.