Welcome

My name is Mark Greenaway and I am an AST in Suffolk.  I established this site in 2004 with the aim of providing up to date resources and documents to support the high quality teaching of Mathematics and information on the latest developments.  To navigate around the site click on one of the headings on the left then a drop down menu appears, to close it, click on the the heading again. Alternatively the sitemap can be accessed by Clicking here

 

For me the motivation to become a mathematician was the sheer beauty of the ideas, structures, and new ways of looking at the world. A world without knowing about primes, symmetry and 4D geometry would be like never hearing Mozart, seeing Picasso, or experiencing Shakespeare. A world without maths would be impoverished politically, technologically, scientifically and culturally.

Marcus du Sautoy

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)
 

Suffolk Vacancies


All Suffolk teaching vacancies can be found at www.suffolkjobsdirect.org by selecting Teaching (Primary, Secondary or Middle) in the Job Type and Mathematics as a keyword.

Please let me know of any suggestions that you might have with regards to layout or content and if you have contributions you think would be of interest to other teachers of Mathematics then please contact me via email at markgreenaway1@googlemail.com please identify subject as Website so I don't delete it by mistake

 

 

 

 

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