Adam Mercer
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Handy with a Calculator. Lead Practitioner in Maths @AAWoodfields . NPQML. Maths enthusiast. Amateur Cantonese Speaker 🇭🇰
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Thanks to 20 years of worded LCM questions, I’m finally having a BBQ with THE EXACT SAME number of burgers and buns 🍔
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Proud 🤓 moment of my career, the new planner’s arrived, and I’ve completed the collection 💙🌟
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If anyone’s not seen
@draustinmaths
’ or
@giftedHKO
’s both of their websites are incredible ⭐️
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It's been too cold outside, my daughter's being entertained by her grandparents, so I've had a day task designing 👍
These need rearranging but I'm pretty chuffed with this recognising like terms activity for Y7, can anyone think of some good q's I might have missed?
#mathschat
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Preparing the warm up for factorising quadratics this week... any other tricks I've missed?
#mathschat
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"Fill in the blanks activities are one of the most simple ways to get students thinking and reasoning mathematically" is a hill I'm willing to die on.
#mathschat
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Partly because angles questions are annoying to make 🤕and partly to show our booklets at
@astreaacademies
, I'm sharing my recent contribution to our curriculum on properties of diagonals in quadrilaterals👍
Link here:
#mathschat
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The quality of
@draustinmaths
’s resources is incredible, and not just helped me improve my practice by giving them out for free but also gave me ideas on how to better ask questions. The depth and challenge is superb.
#mathsconf34
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My Y10's have just finished two big units on number and algebra, so I'm creating starters this week looking at expressions with the same value but different in appearance...
#mathschat
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Today was a good day though, I was observed with Y10's on areas of sectors, and bless them they bossed the shaded areas challenge task I made 😎
#mathschat
#mathsCPDchat
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This year I wanted all my Do-Nows to all have an "open ended" challenge question for my scholars to attempt if they finished earlier, like below:
#mathschat
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I became a father for the second time on Sunday 😄
Not that it wasn’t already known but I just want to say that midwives/nurses/support workers/our entire NHS do an absolutely incredible job ⭐️💙
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Just marked my own answer scheme to my recent Y9 assessment, and you’ll all be pleased to know I got full marks 🤦♂️
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Thought i had a mini epiphany today when I did multiples of square numbers before simplifying surds. Seemed to make the process less cognitively demanding 🧠
#mathschat
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I’ve created a “starting strong” for some of our foundation pupils ready for Wednesday morning to *hopefully* help them navigate/feel comfortable with the first few pages of the Edexcel paper. Free for all below if it helps 😊
#mathschat
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All of
@giftedHKO
’s tasks are some of the most well thought out, intriguing and fascinating that I’ve ever seen. I used to stupidly use them as extensions, when they should be far more integrated than that 👍
#mathsconf27
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No regrets, the calc geek in me was excited to see the new Casios in different colours 😍😎🙌
#mathsconf18
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#minimathsthread
🧵 So I love this method for factorising quadratics, however I’m struggling to explain *why* it works…
#mathschat
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Starting to make some revision resources for my AQA L2 FM students. Here's a revision clock activity (only 8 sections though 😅), never realised how annoying it is trying to make circle theorem proof questions 😵💫
#mathschat
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Another AQA L2 Further Maths warm up sheet ready for Wednesday. I’ve picked topics unique to FM that didn’t appear on paper 1 as well as a nice inverse functions question.
Link here for anyone, let me know of any errors.
#mathschat
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Another AQA L2 FM revision clock, and a new biggest peeve, creating piecewise function questions 🤯
#mathsTLP
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When I struggled more with behaviour, I remember listening to this
@mrbartonmaths
podcast with
@tombennett71
.
One thing mentioned was “pressing the reset button” (paraphrased) with difficult classes. I tried it and things improved overnight 👍
🧵
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Does someone want to start a gofundme to get these folks a PowerPoint clicker? 🧐
#DowningStreetBriefing
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Thinking about my L2 FM booster on Thursday morning and created this in mind, focussing on the "new stuff" and without being too stressful.
Here as a pdf with answers (let me know if there's an error please 🙂) for anyone who could use it:
#mathschat
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Meanwhile whilst the toddler naps, I had a quick idea for our common curriculum on probability vocabulary involving events and outcomes, and the differences between the two. Can anyone think of any I could have missed?
#mathschat
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I've been working more on our probability booklet today and creating some tasks to address one of my personal most annoying misconceptions, what is meant by even chance...
#mathschat
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Using Grade 1 - 3 practice papers throughout the year can be the confidence boost some of more lower attainment learners need, without limiting them in the long run. Looking forward to using these next year from Pearson.
#mathsconf32
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What a great question this is. 100m football pitch. 101m of bunting. How high off the ground would it be?
#TMmathsIcons
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The induction day’s completed…
Thrilled to be joining
@AAWoodfields
next year as a Lead Practitioner in Maths 😊
Looking forward to getting started!
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Having fun creating odd looking missing angles in squares and triangles questions 🤓
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Controversially, I’m really starting to like this calculator 👀
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“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
“Never mistake being busy for being productive.” 🙌🙌🙌
@MrEdWatson
#mathsconf18
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Mind blown tonight: Other nations are have had wonderful special edition Casios. Tempted to petition
@CasioMaths
to give the UK an Alan Turing* themed one.
*Other suggestions welcome 😊
#mathschat
#calculatorchat
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Put my
@Corbettmaths
cards to good use and created a nice display out of them for our corridor 😀. Certainly brightens it up.
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So today we’ve found out in April time we’re having a boy 👍
I imagine I’ll be near 100% exhaustion/exhilaration levels throughout next year 😅
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Spent a while this afternoon trying to create a graphical simultaneous equations worksheet, and it turns out its hell 🤯
If anyone wants to use what I've made here feel free, answers are on the second page.
#mathschat
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I swear
@karenshancock
has me convinced you can run an entire secondary school through onenote.
#TMMathsIcons
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Made another “Starting Strong” ready for Wednesday for Edexcel Paper 3.
Here if anyone else could use it:
Any errors let me know.
#mathschat
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Been thinking A LOT about workload/marking after a lot of conversations about it recently:
In only 10 years I’ve seen loads of gimmicks. SALT, WWW/EBI, triple marking, verbal feedback stamps/stickers, feedback sheets, I haven’t seen everything but I’ve seen plenty…
🧵
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Just found out the keyboard shortcut for “Insert Equation” in PowerPoint is Alt + =. So many years wasted 🙁
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Minor humble brag, but a personal focus for me this year is improving my classroom routines.
I’ve shown this photo at the end of all lessons so far about my exit routines, and already chuffed after two days that everything **even the wipes and pen lids** are still there 😱😅
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Looking at some understanding the laws of arithmetic, multiple representations and links to area models.
#MathsConf33
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In 8 years Ed Plan planners haven’t changed one bit (bar the year on the front). But they’ve never put the date on their pages and I’m reminded how much I hate spending time writing them in 🤦♂️ Can’t wait to move to another brand in 2024/25 😅
#teacherproblems
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Good luck to all back tomorrow 🍀whether it’s INSETs or back at the chalk face 👍
An extra good luck to those (like me) starting new schools/new roles, we’ve got this 😎
#BacktoSchool2023
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*Mustn’t buy a book today*
*Mustn’t buy a book today*
*Mustn’t buy a book today*
*caves* 😐
Still, looking forward to reading this
@teacherhead
#Mathsconf19
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Me: The first five prime numbers are...?
Pupil: “1, 2, 3, 5, 7”
Me:
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Congratulations to all for whom today is the last day of term 😊 please sympathise with us who still have a week to go 😅
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My sister’s bought this for my son. The maths nerd in me is impressed 🤓
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I did accidentally refer to a decimal button on a calculator as a “full stop” button though today 😅 Highly embarrassing and probably should never be allowed to do any maths ever again. 🛑
#mathsconf19
#toomuchliteracy
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I was lucky to get a few thank you cards today but this was a particular highlight. Certainly makes the job more than worthwhile 🙂
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1) Is it easy to get started?
2) Does it build confidence?
3) Does it provide challenge?
4) Does it address misconceptions?
5) Is it ‘good value’?
6) Other misc things (Assumed Knowledge, Motivation…)
@draustinmaths
talking about how she creates her worksheets.
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@Lucyjc1612
I’ve stopped saying “double check your work” etc and gone onto “if you’ve got time, do the question again and see if you get the same answer”
It took some reenforcing but I saw more kids redoing work and I felt there were fewer minor calculation errors.
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I 100% believe the use of booklets and visualisers have been the biggest contribution to improved presentation by all my scholars… 🧵
Really enjoying seeing
@AAWoodfields
scholars being proud of their Maths booklet work
@SandersMaths
@AMercerMaths
@MrsSandersMaths
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So
@JennyHillParker
has suggested that Non-examples in Frayer Models should be correct definitions “but in different domains”. I love this idea for distinguishing between our mathematical use for a word and its other uses.
#mathsconf27
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Drinks in the bar at
#MathsConf15
#PreDrinks
Had a few to drink as I let
@RJS2212
have my phone...
@StudyMaths
@FortyNineCubed
@MrCarterMaths
@MrMattock
@PixiMaths
@JoLocke1
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@draustinmaths
talking about how she creates resources and asking:
“Is it easy to get started?”
#mathsconf34
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“But what if it’s proportional to x^2?”
“Just add another column”
-
@Arithmaticks
#MathsConf33
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Lovely day out with
@StudyMaths
@mrshawthorne7
@ClaireV221
@marciamcgun
@Arithmaticks
. Thanks Jonny for putting up with us! 😁
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Really enjoyed
@StudyMaths
’s behaving mathematically session. Some wonderful ideas on systematic listing, prime factor decomposition and palindromes 🤓
#MathsConf23
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Tagging onto this with *some* of the resources I've used *in the past few days* and as such have made my life much easier.
*Takes a deep breath*
🧵
Let’s counterbalance all the horribleness in
#edutwitter
. Quote RT this with the person who has made a positive difference to your half-term.
My shout out is for
@goteachmaths
- brilliant resources.
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Many thanks to our nation’s examining bodies for the haul of free pens today 👍😎 🖊
#mathsconf19
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Arrived home after a great day at
#mathsconf19
. My sincere and heartfelt thanks to
@marciamcgun
,
@StudyMaths
,
@ClaireV221
@Arithmaticks
,
@MrMattock
others for all the encouragement/support to stand and present on a topic I care very much about 🙂👍
#tenpercentbraver
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Session 3:
@StudyMaths
talking about the ingredients of a highly effective learning episode 🤓
#MathsConf31
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Always feel (and still do) that one of the biggest barriers to achievement in maths at the lower end is reading ability.
@whisto_maths
is talking about it now too.
#TMMathsIcons
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Taking a bit of a leap, and I’m going to be talking about what I’ve done in my own practice as I became a bit more aware I was taking my “expertise” for granted. Looking forward to it! 😄
#MathsConf34
is just 6 weeks away!
Join hundreds of maths teachers from across the country in Bristol on Saturday 16 March for a line up of engaging and interesting workshops.
Including this one from
@AMercerMaths
Grab your ticket
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I'm big fan of
@StudyMaths
festive simultaneous grids. They've made a nice little challenge in my Do-Nows this week 👍
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100% this. Homework should serve as extra independent practice, and that will always be worthwhile. Just because there’s no perfect way to set it doesn’t mean none should be set at all.
In maths, setting some questions on recent learning can’t be beat 👍
Homework…
I continue to see people comment that it’s a waste of time
I disagree
Homework is important
What’s key is what is set & why. There’s relevant hw that reinforces the learning & there’s hw that’s a total waste of time & adds little value
What, why, purpose is key
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Colleen is brilliant for collating revision resources together each year. There’s always something in there I didn’t know about 😄
GCSE Maths Revision 2024 This page will be updated as any new resources become available as well as providing a compilation of revision resources.
#mathschat
#mathscpdchat
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It’s been nice to have a day just talking teaching. No gimmicks, no faff, just good teaching 👍
Really productive INSET day today
@AAWoodfields
. An exciting time to be a part of something big!
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Positives: Using mixed starters consistently every lesson I truly feel helped pupils my retain info better.
@Corbettmaths
5-a-days and
@StudyMaths
are brilliant.
#ifyoudidntalreadyknow
#mathschat
#mathscpdchat
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Teaching should not just be rocking up at 8:30 and leaving at 3:10. Getting what’s right for my class takes more than that. But we’ve still got to keep improving workload. And please god let’s not go anywhere back to the old days 😅
End 🧵
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As much as i’m missing the social aspect... Its not bad confing in the comfort of your home. Especially when you’ve just ordered a maccies too 🍟
#mathsconf23
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Does anybody have any links to resources for repeated percentage change **that’s not compound interest** e.g. growth and decay by any chance please?
#mathschat
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⏰
#MathsConf34
: Period 2 will be starting soon! …
We have workshops from
@AQAMaths
@MrMattock
@mathsjem
@Elsie2110
@DagsMaths
@tessmaths
@noookophile
@mr_man_maths
@AMercerMaths
@DaveTushingham
@Noni_Rainbow
and Liz Hopkins!
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Reasons I wish I knew more science No. 435. Genetic Diagrams having such a direct link to Sample Space Diagrams. Going to improve my SSD lessons loads incorporating these.
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Plenty of positives I’ve took this term including:
- Vast improvements taking into account prior knowledge from KS2 in Year 7
- Even better atomisation of topics making it easier identify where misconceptions lie.
- Still got a full set of Stabilo black pens 👍😎
#mathschat
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Picked my
#mathsconf27
choices finally. However the actual things I’m looking forward to:
1) Inevitable end of corridor hotel room 😔
2) The wonderful group of people I have met and got to known from several of these 😊
3) Free pens 🖊
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After some sad news, I was reminded I hadn’t done this in far too long. Managed to book an appointment last night, 2pm slot, done by 2:25pm. All the kitkats and orange juice you can manage after. A text a few days later about where it’s been used. If you can, do
#giveblood
🩸
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Someone makes you guess a number between 1 and 100. You get to ask 3 questions beforehand. They can’t be higher/lower. What do you ask? 🤔
#Mathschat
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