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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 15h

Just finished making my Mathsconf39 presentation. I was worried I wouldn't have enough to say, the opposite might actually be true (at least people can see the slides I miss when they get emailed out!)
Also can I just say, I've not made a PPT in over 2 years so I am quite impressed with myself.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 16h

I made the worksheet myself but was shown it at MathsConf by @blatherwicksam.bsky.social
I used the template on Mathsbot but then just added my own numbers or algebra.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 20h

I like the how many expressions can you make and evaluate. Could definitely see some students having a go where it's like a^2 + b

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 21h

#Mathstoday
Both of my year 9 classes did loads of substitution work today. Got the exercise from the foundation sumbooks 2002. They are available online as a pdf. Loads of questions if the students just need loads of practice.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 1d

#Mathstoday
Year 11 looked at Magic squares today. Which leads onto factorising quadratics. Next lesson will be just factorising quadratics.
(For some reason rotating won't work)

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 2d

#Mathstoday
Year 10 had a go at factorising single brackets.
I think once we have a go at factorising double brackets I might make a mixed exercise as they tend to struggle to see if they are still single factorising when you have a x^2.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 2d

My current #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - @robeastaway.bsky.social
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social (I don't think I have a a choice here)
3 - @jwrightmaths.bsky.social
4 - Charlie Harber
5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social

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DagsMaths @dagsmaths.bsky.social · 3d

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - Grace Wood & Aysha Rahman
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social
3 - @mathsjem.bsky.social‬
4 - @dagsmaths.bsky.social‬
5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social

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Deb Friis @runningstitch314.bsky.social · 4d

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - Emma Lockhart
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social
3 - @mathsjem.bsky.social‬
4 - Georgina Green
5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 5d

#Mathstoday
Today Year 11 looked at the relationship between volumes of similar shapes. There were some nice questions in the textbook (although somehow Q1 was harder than Q2 and 3)

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Japleen Kaur @japleenkaur.bsky.social · 5d

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - Parsa Hassan-Yazdi
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social
3 - Lydia Davison
4 - @justmaths.bsky.social‬
5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 6d

#Mathstoday
Tried teaching my year 9s how to use a calculator properly today (and not use the on button to remove your current calculation)
It is complete and utter muscle memory for me, and I found myself doing it multiple times in the lesson accidentally.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 7d

I think the reduction helped, less time trying to spot the answer and since they had glued in the first 2 columns before working on the 3rd the 3rd ended up going quite quick.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 7d

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Year 8 have been doing this Improper Fraction and Mixed Fraction matching task today from MrWhy1089 on TES. Did this with 2 groups, first cut out everything, second only did diagrams and improper fractions to begin with. The second group ended up completing more overall.

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Dee Atkins-Greig @metchick.bsky.social · 7d

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - @robeastaway.bsky.social
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social
3 - Jason Gottfried
4 - Georgina Green
5 - @mrmattock.bsky.social‬

Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 9d

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My ELC group looked at shading fractions. After learning from last year they got more practice before we did the worksheets.

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Gareth Shadick @garethshadick.bsky.social · 9d

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - Jack Jennings
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social
3 - @mathsmuse.bsky.social‬
4 - @justmaths.bsky.social‬
5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social

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Josh Wright @jwrightmaths.bsky.social · 9d

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - Cate Fearn
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social
3 - @jwrightmaths.bsky.social
4 - @joausten.bsky.social‬
5 - Karen Hancock

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Not sure about my 3rd choice...

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Complete Mathematics @lasalleed.bsky.social · 9d

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 9d

#Mathstoday
Year 10 found expressions for shaded areas.
Made this last year for an extension but it was nice spending a bit longer on it.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 12d

#Mathstoday
Year 10 started expanding multiple single brackets and collecting the like terms. Did much better then expected :D next lesson they get to do some of my favourite tasks with it. (To be shared then)

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 13d

We did! Did also really lead on well on why we have the procedure method due to it becoming quite hard to tell with certain fractions.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 13d

Personal preference with low ability students.
I see the benefit and prefer that with my higher students, but with really weak students I prefer this.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 13d

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Year 8 looked at equivalent fractions today and found which of the 2 fractions were larger.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 14d

I think as they can get confused with probability trees or frequency trees. I have no issue with them but I know some people do.

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