MathsClass

Nothing to do with MathsClass, this week saw the addition of Emma to our family.

Four maths teachers kindly shared their work on MathsFaculty for others to use.

Recently my online focus has shifted to my network of sites. This network is about making the essentials for maths teaching easier to find and more accessible.

MathsKit is a page of all those everyday resources.
MathsLinks now has over 500 online activites for maths, all categorised.
My new site, MathsFaculty is for maths teachers to share. I suspect that everyday, teachers waste time searching for, and if they don’t find, creating resources. Let’s fix that by sharing.

Each week, I’m going to use this blog to summarise what has been added across these sites.

* “This Week” is more like “recently” for this first review.

I’ve updated the Quick Quiz app on MathsStarters.

I recently spent some time improving MathsLinks and adding some new features.

On MathsStarters, I have added a Frequency Distribution Table tool. The tool lets you have 3 to 10 scores, you tally as you go and the frequency and total are calculated.

You could use this on a projector/IWB (the buttons for incrementing the tally are sized for an IWB). Or, students could use this to record data on their own laptop as they collect it – paperless!

Here are some resources for the new year…

Four years ago today, the first post on this blog was published.

I’ve added a nice little feature to the MathsLinks site – Favourites.

Welcome to the new look MathsClass site.

After the recent redesign of MathsKit, the next site I have redesigned, or really launched is MathsLinks.

For a while, I’ve been developing a new look for this site and working out how to better connect my maths sites.

Polite names of course!

A 2 question poll about the name used to refer to the mathematics staff at your school.

I suspect most readers of this blog would agree that online networking with other teachers is now the key form of professional development. Yet, we would all know many teachers who are not engaging online in discussions with colleagues.

I have turned off the automatic inclusion of my Delicious “maths” links in the update feed/email for this site.

I recently created a site called MathsKit. Whilst I added some links to it on this site, I haven’t actually mentioned it yet.

For a while I’ve been collecting and saving to a web-site maths objects to use with my classes. By objects I mean single activities, rather than a web-site of maths activities. I’ve been trying to take some of the many things I find and save to delicious and put a purpose to them – deciding that it’s something I could use with one of my classes.

There are a couple of previously published resources on this site that might help you out as you prepare for the new school year.

Today I finished moving MathsClass.  You’ll hopefully notice no difference, but it changes some things for me and allows me to expand this site a little in the next couple of weeks.  As a result, if you subscribe to this site via the feed or by email, you may have seen old entries reposted as new - sorry about that.  They’re obviously not new, but in the moving process were “updated”, hence they’ve reappeared in the feed and email updates.

Merry Christmas, and if you’re looking for something to do this break, check out the properties of your favourite numbers on the Number Dictionary (unfortunate URL, but a good site).

MathClass has sort of become a blog of resources, rather than a more general conversation about teaching.  I’m not sure whether that’s necessarily a bad thing, so I’d like to know what my readers think.

There are two search boxes in the right-hand column of this site.  The first just searches this site.  The second is much more interesting.