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Nicola Waddilove

@mathspadnicola

Maths Teacher and resource writer at MathsPad.

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A few people seemed to like this giant calculator part of my displays. This year I'm replacing a lot of it by including the newer and previous model calculators as well. Download in this folder if you want them drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

A few people seemed to like this giant calculator part of my displays. This year I'm replacing a lot of it by including the newer and previous model calculators as well. Download in this folder if you want them drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
Craig Barton (@mrbartonmaths) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨New episode🚨 Jo Morgan discusses 10 strategies that led to her and her team's incredible GCSE Maths results. Jo talks a lot of sense - apart from when it comes to mini-whiteboards. Enjoy! mrbartonmaths.com/blog/jo-morgan…

Niall Alcock (@niallalcock) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who are the most successful (secondary) subject departments in the country? And what curriculum choices do they make? 🧵👇

Nicola Waddilove (@mathspadnicola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hi everyone, I’m thinking about booklets & textbooks and just wondering, how does your school specify what you should teach at KS3? Is it primarily one of the following?Please add comments if something else...

Nicola Waddilove (@mathspadnicola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm interested, for everyone that said objectives, do you ever find them difficult to interpret? Do you ever feel like you have ended up teaching the 'wrong' type of problems?

Matt James (@mrj_maths) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“When am I ever going to use this?” I want to come up with better ways of explaining to students why we do what we do in Maths. Trying to be specific often gets the reply “I’m not going to do that” and I think being too general about skills is too vague… Thoughts, ideas…?

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It always puzzled me at school what happens when you press the sin cos and tan buttons on a calculator. I think this video about the beautiful sine wave is incredible - if you are interested in the development of trigonometry this is really worth a watch:gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/sine…

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I decided to start the probability scale this year with questions like 'if the event is unlikely, what could its probability be as a fraction?'. I think it revealed a lot about their knowledge of FDP and helped solidify the scale as going from 0 to 1. I followed it with:

I decided to start the probability scale this year with questions like 'if the event is unlikely, what could its probability be as a fraction?'. I think it revealed a lot about their knowledge of FDP and helped solidify the scale as going from 0 to 1. I followed it with:
Nicola Waddilove (@mathspadnicola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I really loved #MathsConf36 yesterday. All the sessions I went to left me excited to try something new & share with my colleagues. Thank you so much for a fantastic conference Complete Maths Rob Eastaway Jo Morgan JustMaths Craig Latimir Rebecca Sanders, genuinely the best CPD.

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Wooohooo! A new largest known prime has been discovered by the GIMPS project! It's a Mersenne prime. Find out more about Mersenne primes here plus.maths.org/content/even-p…