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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 1m

#Mathstoday
Only had half of my year 11 class so we did loop cards for surface area and volume of similar shapes.
(Cards are not in order as forgot to take a photo before collecting them)

Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 22h

#Mathtoday
My ELC found fractions of amounts today using diagrams to help them. Since we use ActivInspire I could just drag and drop the diagram they needed.
Also marked 27 higher maths papers in 2 hours 20 minutes! (Including inputting scores)

Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 1d

No. It's deciding if it's factorising a quadratic or single bracket.

Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 1d

#mathstoday
I've had in the past students finding it difficult to decide if an expression would factorise into a single or double bracket. So I created a mix of 20 questions to try and build that skill of deciding which one to use. Unsurprisingly a lot of them struggled. Better now than an exam!

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 4d

#MathsConf39 So I wanted 10 people not 60....
Hopefully people enjoyed themselves (didn't realise I actually had 10 minutes left!)

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 4d

So my #Matheconf39 session P2 has been moved to Hypatia. I did not pay attention when they said where that was as none of my sessions were there originally... I'm sure I'll find it

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 4d

Just over 18 years later my apple tree has finally produced an apple! Been waiting 3 weeks to try this as the tree lives in my grandma's garden now. (It has lived in 3 different gardens)

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 4d

I believe so (I'm horrendous at knowing the names of methods)
We use the grid method for factorising and did alot practice beforehand with questions like so.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 5d

#Mathstoday
Love these questions the year 10s did for factorising quadratics. Gave students a lot of the scaffolding they needed allowing them to move onto similar ones without the scaffolding after.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 5d

#Mathstoday
Year 8 worked on multiplying and dividing fractions today. Unfortunately I did not realise one of the solutions came to 6/7....

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

#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 · 7d

#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 · 8d

#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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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

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

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Deb Friis @runningstitch314.bsky.social · 10d

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - Emma Lockhart
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social
3 - @mathsjem.bsky.social‬
4 - Georgina Green
5 - @runningstitch314.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 · 11d

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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 · 11d

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - Parsa Hassan-Yazdi
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social
3 - Lydia Davison
4 - @justmaths.bsky.social‬
5 - @runningstitch314.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 · 12d

#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 · 13d

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 · 13d

#Mathstoday
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 · 13d

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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Mathematics tuition for primary, secondary and FE. Home schooling. Math improvement.

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