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Latest Newsletters - Autumn 2011 Newsletter  (right click and select save as) - Click here                   Spring 2012 Newsletter  (right click and select save as) - Click here                          

Using Visual Stimuli to challenge and engage pupils Dan promotes the use of real life visual stimuli and adopts the mantra that less is more.  Stripping back problems and both engaging and challenging pupils - Click here
Cre8ate Materials I have now brought this section of the website up to date and linked the final Cre8ate resources - Click here
Olympic Games 2012 I am pulling together a range of resources that can be used in the build up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London - Click here.   If you have any suggestions please email me at markgreenaway1@googlemail.com
Primary Maths Challenge We are now accepting registration for the November 2011 Challenge. The Challenge can only be set during the week beginning 21st November. The Challenge will be in the same format as before and we think it is a really good paper this year. As usual there will be a second paper in February. Those pupils who have the highest scores on the first paper will be invited to take part in the second round, which we have re-named the ‘Bonus Round’ - Click here
Four Structured Projects I have put together 4 projects designed to last for about 7 hours and comprising of starter, teaching and progression ideas as well as assessment criteria - Click here
Nuffield and Bowland These resources are designed to promote mathematical discussion in a problem solving environment.  The Nuffield resources of two types Investigational and Practical and the Bowland short tasks are contextual
Projects These resources provide students with the opportunity to work on more substantial tasks and this collection includes a number used successfully at my school and a large number of others ones that I have collected - Click here
Problem Solving Challenges These problems were taken from www.mathschallenge.net they are graded from 1 to 4 star problems - Click here

80 Problem Solving Activities produced by the National Council of Maths Teachers of which many require estimation skills - Click here

Functional Skills Starters PowerPoint presentations designed to be used as a Starter question to prepare pupils for less structured problems, the answer is provided as well as common mistakes to look out for - Click here
Group Work I have pulled together a range of resources designed to support the use of Group Work in the classroom, these include Maths Mysteries, Investigations, Problem Solving, Contextual Problems and Collective Memory Tasks.  Also included are suggestions on how to structure group work including allocating roles - Click here
Investigations I have collated some Investigations that can be used to enable pupils to tackle more substantial tasks - Click here

 

The Suffolk Mathematics Innovation Show Friday 23rd July 2010

Suffolk Schools sharing good practice.

The Innovation Show, conceived and brought to reality by Chris Dale (Suffolk Maths Advisor), provided the opportunity to showcase the achievements and the developments within the teaching of Mathematics at Suffolk Schools.  It was attended by nearly 200 delegates and brought together, teachers, governors, councillors, students and others interested in the development of Maths Education and teaching in general.

 

12 Suffolk Schools gave 15 minute presentations on developments within their schools and 8 schools provided some high quality display work showing what is happening in their schools
 

Introducing the Day
Chris Dale
County Maths Advisor

How did we do it?

 Claydon High School

An aid for A-level students’ revision

Farlingaye High School

Maths revision ideas

Mildenhall College of Technology

Bowland, Nintendos and QUACK

Pakefield Middle School

Linking Maths and economics

Scaltback Middle School

Sight, Sound and Maths

Sudbury Upper School

A Year in the life of a school Mathematics department

St Benedict’s Catholic Upper School

Parents Project Maths Workshop

Thurleston High School

Mathematical Art

Thurston Community College

 


A summary of the picture in Suffolk

PowerPoint Presentation 14MB

 

‘Mathematics Activity Days on a shoestring!’

Jaya Shackleton
Advanced Skills Teacher, Hartismere High School

Maximum fun for minimal expense. Low mess, low cost, and not an outrageous amount of planning!

Booklet Outlining Ideas 0.2MB
NW Enterprise Day Resource

'Promoting Pupil Talk in the Mathematics Classroom'

Hannah McWattie
Head of Mathematics, Samuel Ward Arts and Technology College

How to work together as a department to increase the effectiveness of discussion in mathematics, and why it's a good idea to do it!

PowerPoint Presentation 2MB

‘THE suffolkmaths website’

Mark Greenaway
Advanced Skills Teacher, St Albans High School

This website is designed to support Suffolk Teachers by providing them with the latest information regarding the teaching of Mathematics, key resources, new developments and materials on the one site. 

 ‘Making Study Plus work in your organization’

Judy Boosey
Higher Level Teaching Assistant, St Albans High School

This is a brief review over two years of how one school made Study Plus work for them.  The presentation will look at the planning, the delivery, the use of the budget and how to make it work within the wider curriculum.  

PowerPoint Presentation 6MB

‘We're not Invisible anymore!’

Marc Emmanuel & Mark Jordan
Teacher & Teaching Assistant, Westbourne High School

Making Study Plus work for the pupils – the first year journey

 

Mathematics – Creativity, Imagination and Beauty’

Andrew Gemmell
Head of Mathematics, Farlingaye High School

The development of a theme based KS3 course that aims to show that, in spite of current sentiment to the contrary, the wellsprings of mathematics are not utility and relevance, but creativity, imagination and an appreciation of the beauty of the subject.

PowerPoint Presentation 16MB

‘Engaging the parents of key pupils in the run-up to GCSE examinations’

Charlie Dawson
Head of Mathematics, Northgate High School

The planning of Easter revision classes to include targeted pupils and parents and then convincing them to turn up! A breakdown of the sessions will be given and the lasting effect on the pupils highlighted.

 ‘A journey to MARS’

Dan Pluta
Second in Mathematics, Thurleston High School

An outline of the system Thurleston uses that allows pupils, teachers and parents to track performance and progress.

‘Developing student mathematics leaders to raise attainment’

Sarah Wyand
Head of Mathematics, King Edward VI Upper School

How the school uses the Maths Student Leader Accreditation Scheme. How we develop our students maths leaders to raise the attainment of others

PowerPoint Presentation 6MB

‘Mathematics moving forward at Castle Manor’

Shauna Plourde
Head of Mathematics, Castle Manor Business & Enterprise College

The importance of revision days in the lead up to exams

The use of an HLTA within the team (working with both C/D as well as A/A* students)

The use of team planning time in curriculum development

‘Raising attainment through targeted early entry’

Kathy Ramsden
Assistant Headteacher, Copleston High School

This presentation goes through the strategies and planning used at Copleston High School for preparing students for early entry in January modules, together with the rationale behind our decision.

 

‘Engagement for all’

Grace Williams & Jo Hilson
Headteacher & Head of Mathematics, Great Cornard Middle School

What is engagement? This presentation will define engagement and give a brief demonstration of a new tracking reporting system. It will then look at gender, whole staff and parent & governor engagement.

PowerPoint Presentation 0.2MB


Rob Eastaway
Keynote Speech (40MB mp3)
Chris Dale
(Suffolk County Maths Advisor)
Closing Address (5MB mp3)
 
 

 

 

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