Thanks Jo!

S4 learner generated Indices questions. They are now off to do the easier questions featured in the booklet for homework 🙈😂

Over the past year I have created Coaching Wheels to support student's revision. With the help of Siōbhán Sherry contracts of engagement, I have created a Self Evaluation Contract (for Nat 5 to Adv. H) to support target setting. Find these here bit.ly/3bmKcWB

A fantastic series of short videos on BBCteach that every teacher should watch by ⁦⁦David Didau⁩ covering topics like memory, cognitive load, desirable difficulties, learning myths & importance of keeping messages simple to name just a few! bbc.co.uk/teach/teacher-…

Thanks @ChrisMcGrane84! First task I've put together in a while! Using this at our cluster primaries today 👌

Just put together this minimally different exercise on writing numbers following my S1 class today. It's here to download if it can be of use to anyone: mathsmda.weebly.com/home/writing-n…

'Big angle diagrams' always cause issues for pupils as they struggle to identify individual properties in the 'big diagrams'. As a result, I've created this scaffolded exercise. Feel free to use: mathsmda.weebly.com/home/december-…

Great to be among the Maths community again today at the Complete Maths PTConf. Thanks to the presenters I managed to catch today Stuart Welsh, Maureen McKenna and of course @ChrisMcGrane84 👌

Has anyone ran a Maths family learning session in their school? More like a series of classes where parents/guardians can attend if they want to improve their own Maths?

Has anyone ran a Maths Study Skills workshop for parents and pupils in their school?

Website update: - Added 2 more worked examples for N5 percentages and rewrote others to improve clarity. - Added links to Siōbhán Sherry's excellent videos to the Higher topic pages. - Added another worked example for AH partial fractions (irreducible quadratic factor).

A few years ago, I wrote two metacognition guides with Oxford Secondary 1) a guide for teachers with practical strategies for the classroom 2) a guide for students to support their revision and learning Do you want a copy? RT this tweet, then DM me!

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Here’s a great summary of key takeaways from Power Up Your Questioning, produced by Kirstyn Wood, PT Learning & Teaching at Queen Anne High School, Fife. It’s so great to know the book is proving so useful to so many teachers. Available here: amzn.eu/d/6E9jwJG

If AI is going to be used extensively in office jobs - which I think it will be - then should we be letting students use AI in the classroom? No, and here is why. With reference to 3 important research papers that show why what you do in a job shouldn't be the template for

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