Teaching Maths In Lockdown – a series of online sessions for teachers in the South West
Alongside my AMSP role, I teach maths two days a week at Hardenhuish School, a medium-large comprehensive school in Chippenham.
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Centre Assessment Grades for Core Maths
Following the lockdown announcement and correspondence from the DfE/Ofqual regarding assessment and grading for summer 2020, we received many emails from teachers in our region asking if there would be an opportunity for them to meet with others to discuss the situation for Core Maths students.
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Bringing mechanics to life
It feels like a lifetime ago but, back in March, the AMSP was still running face-to-face teacher professional development events.
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SIR models of disease spread
Back in March, when the UK lockdown was just beginning, I was tinkering with GeoGebra and was reminded of GeoGebra’s ability to solve differential equations by Juan Carlos Ponce Campuzano, who tweeted a link to his awesome SIR model where GeoGebra did all the heavy lifting of solving the differential equations.
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Immerse yourself in Desmos
In these days of social distancing and isolation, our working days have changed immensely. The days of seeing up to 150 (or more) students per day – with all their chatter and eagerness to learn – even after the Easter break, seem like fond and distant memories.
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Mechanics twilight PD sessions
I was delighted to have Ted Graham (AMSP Associate and Mechanics Maestro) run a series of four practical sessions on mechanics for A level Mathematics teachers at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham.
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Year 12 Problem Solving Conference
On Wednesday 15 January, we held our largest Year 12 Problem Solving Conference to date at Queen Elizabeth’s School in Wimborne, Dorset.
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Can you crack the code?
Either side of the Christmas holidays, in excess of 500 students from across Cornwall and Devon participated in university-based enrichment events in Plymouth and Falmouth.
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Post-16 options for students
With so many important decisions to make, being a student in Year 10 or 11 can feel overwhelming at times. Knowing which educational pathways will work best for you as an individual is not always that obvious at the ages of fifteen or sixteen.
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