🚨FREE GIVEAWAY🚨
To celebrate the fact that is a yr old, I’m giving away 10 logins for my revision card generator. Generate your packs to match your SOW or use for intervention. The choice is yours. Simply like & retweet to be in with a chance.
@mathsjem
Maths formula sheet familiarisation tasks
❤️ and 🔃 🙏
Higher:
Foundation:
These packs provide students with 8 tasks, each requiring the application of provided formulas for a successful solution. Answers are included in each
At the weekend I went around a book shop with my 8yr old & I was shocked at how expensive some of the KS2 practice books are. Hopefully my FREE book will help to reduce ££ outgoings without reducing impact:
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📖 FREE high expectation
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booklets
10 x 15 qu starter/revision activities that have been designed to raise the bar. Each pack comes with answers. Like and RT 🙏
Foundation:
Foundation/Higher:
Higher:
Need a differentiated retrieval practice starter? Try my “Last lesson, last week, last topic, last term” generator. Keeping it simple; search for a topic and select how hard you want it. All answers provided.
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Create a Maths starter with a few clicks!
Choose 4 quadrant titles & topics. Select how difficult you want each one by using the stars. Select any question to show the answer.
Use the link button (bottom right) to save the starter to use another day.
My new/old website with a proper web address! 😀
⤑ Examples pairs
⤑ Mini white board activity
⤑ Retrieval practice
⤑ Worksheet generator
⤑ Class share
⤑ Class interactive keypads
⤑ Starter activities
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Maths teachers... If you need any example pairs/exercises (with answers) for use with visualisers or webcams during the next few weeks, check out for auto generated resources! Any ideas on how it can be improved more than welcome
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WORKED EXAMPLE PROJECT COMPLETED 🥳🎉
Access the largest FREELY available library of worked example animations! The animations cover every topic on my site. This started a year ago and has been a huge project. I have personally done 1028 of them. Many thanks to those who
⏲️ Resource challenge:
Make a Frayer Model in under 10s!
Choose a word from my growing word bank and instantly get a definition plus fact. Customise the Frayer Model by generating an example in context from my topic bank.
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#mathstlp
I've started to create takeaways based on the advanced information. AQA is now available on the site (my school are AQA at GCSE). Edexcel should be available some time tomorrow. OCR before half term. Try here 👇
@mathsjem
@missradders
@mathsmrgordon
#maths
Right now you may be looking for some randomised revision for KS4. Grab a tiered takeaway that focusses on common poorly answered topics (new activity every time & ans inc.):
1) Calendars
2) Worksheets
3) Dominos/Treas. Hunts
4) On-screen
#maths
@mathsjem
🚨 NEW FREE RESOURCE
@KristenMAcosta
tweeted a "Clocks" starter. I set myself a challenge of creating a 3D dice animation. After 1hr of coding, I hope I did the task justice. Introducing a nice order of ops starter:
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@jemmaths
@whisto_maths
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You can generate worksheets, mazes or play the addictive interactive game with any of these new topics, now with multiple choice answers.
Worksheet generator:
Maze generator:
Game:
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Create a revision guide with my eBook guide generator to help close the gap on key topics.
📔 Create a personlised eBook
🎯 Tailor the content to your SoW
📇 Choose from 134 topics
ℹ️ Produce it based on the advanced info
#mathstwitter
#edutwitter
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Need a Maths code breaker activity?
Try my activity generator:
Select a topic, write a joke or sentence to encode and create. Easy peasy. I have been testing it all week and students have loved it!
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#ShareStuffSunday
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#maths
🥳🎉 REVISION CARDS COMPLETED
There are now 185 tiered revision cards on my site to cover every topic! You can design your own packs by selecting the content that goes into each pack, e.g. to match your SOW. You can produce your packs as an electronic resource or print them out.
Still one of the best tools on the internet for creating your
#maths
retrieval starter:
Choose from over 1000 skills and absolutely FREE. Save a link to bring up the starter in the future. You could always link to a SoW.
If you need more questions,
Generate Maths “I do, we do, you do” example pairs.
Search for a topic. Select “Model it”. Change the difficulty of the examples using stars at the top. Refresh the “We do” or “You do” examples if needed.
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#mathswhiteboard
#mathsteacher
#edutwitter
For the 28% who said they wanted to keep the "I do, you do" structure, I'm hoping that I've made the transition satisifying enough that you will enjoy transitioning between the two now.
The "I do, we do, you do" tool on
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#mathschat
🗓️ This FREE calendar needs to be on everyone's fridge in 2024!
The calendar will serve several purposes:
◦ Daily basic numeracy rehearsal
◦ Engages parents with Maths
We cannot fit all skills into our starters so the quick everyday Maths at the fridge will remind students of
For 10 months, has provided free resources like starters, games and worksheets. I'm excited that the feature list now includes revision cards & online tests.
Revision cards - side 1 examples/knowledge, side 2 practice qu
@mathsjem
@ColleenYoung
#mathschat
🚨 NEW - Create your own differentiated consolidation exercise using my maze generator. Feeding from my misconception bank, create a new maze everytime you preview it!
I'm super excited about this!
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@mathsjem
@ColleenYoung
#mathsteacher
#mathchat
Generate Maths starters based on the advanced information.
Select the advanced info button. Select your board and tier. Topics will be added. Make any changes to the difficulties of each topic. Generate and save the link to reuse.
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#mathsteacher
🤩MATHS P3 Revision Mats
Using the lists from
@1stclassmaths
(THANKS!), I've created revision mats to target P3. They all follow the same style, page -
1: worked examples
2: rehearsal
3: answers
Check the thread for delivery options, ideas and resources.
@mathsjem
@ColleenYoung
🚨 Maths teachers 🚨
I'm embarking on a new FREE project with a focus on misconceptions! The idea behind this project is I want to be able to develop student's mathematical reasoning skills. You can explore the misconception library using the link below:
♨️ High frequency AQA topic papers
Based on my analysis of previous papers, these questions focus on high frequency P1 topics that may be worth looking at:
All questions have been generated using my exam generator and so will be
I thought I'd give another option to those struggling to access their webcam in PowerPoint. The webcam tool has now been built into my example pair generator.
Head to , search for a topic, select "Model it" then activate the camera.
The nice thing about
As promised, I've gone through & made various changes to improve the FREE
#maths
worksheet generator. This morning my focus was on the backwards thinking questions. The system now creates much cleaner looking questions when the option is selected.
🚨 New numeracy starter - This tool was requested by a school aiming to incorporate a touch of Maths into form time.
Over the last week, I've utilized it as a pre-starter activity, ensuring my Y7's engage in deliberate practice of times tables at the beginning of every lesson.
My exam builder can now produce any paper as a PDF and/or as an online paper.
Check out this one that I made earlier👇
It is fair to say that reprographics costs has crippled the department's budget this year. Hopefully this gets round the need to print
Observing a trainee yesterday and he was revising the topic of solving quadratic eqns. He really pushed the students and made sure they weren't doing things by routine. He designed a qu I really liked that I noticed was missing from the site. Now added.
My FREE worksheet generator is getting an upgrade!
There are now more ways of supporting and challenging students with a printout. Be the master of task design by fully customising your task with lots of options:
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#mathschat
@mathsjem
My Y7 group are really struggling with the basics so I have thrown together these Excel workbooks for endless rehearsal starters.
Multiplication grids (same qu, 3 techniques):
Directed number x and ÷ alongside basic facts:
Hope
Built from the awesome checklist from
@1stclassmaths
and my hot topics, here are all of the resources I've made for AQA P2 both tiers:
HIGHER:
On-screen version:
FOUNDATION:
On-screen version:
Thanks
@timnmiddleton
for suggesting individual personalised workbooks from a paper QLA. This has been added to & . Will be using this with my revision class tomorrow after school! When downloaded, file name matches student name.
You can now create a bespoke revision booklet from my growing set of more than 100 topics. Use it produce cover work, revision guides for intervention, etc.
With the login, you also have use of my revision card generator.
@mathsjem
@missradders
#Maths
🧵I have one Y11 lesson remaining with one group and two with another before P1. I've compiled a thread of resources that I intend to use that may also benefit you. I've also provided the methodology behind my topic selection.
@mathsjem
@ColleenYoung
@BetterMaths
@Dr_Secker
Building and using exam papers in your lessons 🧵
I've built a tool that will create exam style questions. The tool will create the question, the answer, the number of marks and the mark breakdown based on my Maths White Board skill descriptors.
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#mathschat
#mathsteacher
What would a “Countdown” inspired game look like if I created one?
Well it would have 6 stars of variation of course! This is being released tomorrow on my site () but it desperately needs a name. See the thread for a poll.
@mathsjem
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🚨 AQA Maths P2 F resources 🚨
I've just used the awesome analysis from
@1stclassmaths
(THANK YOU!) to produce 3 resources for my students to help target priority topics for AQA P2 F. Hope they prove useful for everyone else too!
▫ Revision mat (VH/H priority):
Use my worksheet generator to produce endless tasks to focus on the advanced information. I have AQA/Edexcel/OCR takeaways for both tiers. The takeaways are easily customisable and produced with 1 click!
#maths
#mathsworksheet
#gcsemaths
#mathsteacher
In the lead up to mock season, if you have students needing to focus on specific skills, you can easily create a personalised revision guide or revision card pack using these generators in minutes!
Card tool:
Guide tool:
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Have you tried my Maths examples generator? Build your "I do, we do, you do" qu's by selecting "Model it" for any topic in the menu & the difficulty using the stars in the banner. Click the stars again for more qu's.
#maths
#mathsteacher
#mathstwitter
Last few days have been tough. For the last 15 yrs she was my shadow. Slept with us. Always came for cuddles. She would sit at my office door & howl until I let her in. It's so quiet now 💔. It's amazing the void that a pet can leave when they are family. RIP Maya.
#CatsOfTwitter
Right now you may be looking for some randomised revision for KS4. Grab a tiered takeaway that focusses on common poorly answered topics (new activity every time & ans inc.):
1) Calendars
2) Worksheets
3) Dominos/Treas. Hunts
4) On-screen
#maths
@mathsjem
Earlier this week a colleague within the department approached me with a suggestion. He wanted to be able to enlarge one of the starter questions to help draw student's attention away from the others on the screen.
I think he will be pleased tomorrow 👇
---- NEW FEATURE ----
You can now create a workbook of all R and A areas from a QLA with 1 click! Following a paper this week, in 5mins yr 11 entered their data into:
I got an Excel copy & workbook; they got a personalised report with 2 FF qu.
@mathsjem
Pre-tests are useful to uncover pre-requisite skills that students don't know prior to teaching & should be:
⏩Quick, often replacing a starter
⏩Accurate & inform teaching
I've been testing my BaseLine Tool & now ready to launch. Watch a vid 👇:
@mathsjem
Teacher: “On your mini white boards, is this true or false?”
Teacher: “Now write down an estimate of this calculation to show Rickma's answer couldn't have been true.”
Teacher: “By changing 1 number, now make Rickma's answer true.”
My trainee from last
The recent Maths in depth videos from
@AQAMaths
,
@mrbartonmaths
and
@mathsjem
are GREAT! In particular, I really like the one where they discuss the questions that you can give students whilst sharing multiple choice answers.
"What would you need to
Looking for a nice easy to mark Maths activity? Try my match up generator. Choose a skill, how hard you want to make it & the site will generate a new sheet every time with answers. Starter/homework/practice.
#maths
@ColleenYoung
@WhatTheTrigMath
@mathsjem
Lots of talk of breakfast clubs at the moment. If you are holding more than 1 breakfast club this week, you can produce endless resources based on the advanced info using my generators. Create worksheets, dominos, calendars and more.
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#mathsteacher
I grew up watching Bob Holness on Blockbuster, Roy Walker on Catchphrase & Les Dennis on Family Fortunes… but tomorrow I’m the show master!
With my new game, put two teams head to head with any
#maths
topic from my site.
#ShareStuffSunday
@mathsjem
I was having a chat with an NQT before we broke up about ways of engaging students with questions. Here is the first of many features to be added to the site. New BINGO game with every new load of the software!
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@mathsjem
I’ve been so busy this week I forgot to celebrate a major milestone in the website development:
✅ 100 topic misconception multiple choice generators
The generators now cater for 557 skills producing 3 smart wrong answers and a right answer.
This will be too late for a lot of people, but here's my version of Lobster Pots - a competitive end of term enterprise game that students can play online (or offline).
@mrbartonmaths
explains the basics here:
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#mathsfun
NEW FEATURE: Excel QLA upload tool. You can upload your existing exam breakdown data from a spreadsheet to one of my templates to generate meaningful resources for your students.
- Covey board
- Report
- Workbook
- Revision card pack
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#maths
I’ll stop banging on about the Maths Exam Builder for a while after this, but here is one use case I hadn’t thought of until recently… topic based workbooks!
Use set 1 for mid term assessments but that leaves the other two for generating rehearsal exam style workbooks. 👌
We have changed our assessment structure for specific windows in the year to reduce our marking work load. In place of long formal tests, we now give MC qus from:
Test delivered, marked & QLA done in 1 lesson with starters & reports produced from results.
Project 2 of 2: 👨🏫 Lesson curator
Perfect for:
💠 Co-/individual planning
💠 Teach in multiple rooms & need to load resources quickly
💠 Cover lessons
💠 Time saving - shift the energy away from resource creating
Example:
Tool:
Some topic resources are hard to find on the internet, so I’m proud to have pointed my question generator at algebraic proof. Here is a quick vid to show how I differentiated it across the ⭐️’s. You can create worksheets, teaching pairs, etc.
@mathsjem
There's always a few mins between the first student to arrive & the last, reducing the time this student has to complete a starter if it is on the board. You can now set animations as a task reminder while you wait for the last before setting the task.
Sunday’s 1 min challenge… Create a personalised Maths worksheet:
🔵 Select a topic
🔵 Select a difficulty level
🔵 Select how many questions
🔵 Add more topics
Preview/create worksheet. Site uses MWB question bank so with ANSWERS too!
@mathsjem
#maths
📰 Revision guide tool update
💠 Updated all topics, improving the format & corrected any errors
💠 I've included the option to export the answer QR code alongside an exercise to help pupils check their work
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#mathstwitter
#maths
#gcsemaths
Functional skills L2 FREE booklet
This year I have 3 groups doing either L1 or L2. To support my L2 Y11s, I've put together a rehearsal booklet. Key notes to pre-empt difficult topics and 10 practice sheets we will be doing as HW.
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A FREE crash course on "How to use the basic features of your calculator" for all foundation students:
- 🚀 Full lesson containing activities
- 📺 Instructional videos
- 👂 Clear and concise
I have 3 low ability Y11 groups this year. So many of them
Do you need a little & often exercise for students to do at home? Take a look at my foundation Oct calendar:
Not quite got the topics right for you? Design your own calendar using one of my presets or select your own topics:
My easy to use/quirky example pair generator
1) Forgot to mention the ⭐️ generator buttons at the top to produce differentiated qu
2) Forgot to mention where to find it , select ‘Model it’
3) I hate being on camera!!
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#mathschat
#mathswhiteboard
🥳
#2
Starters are difficult to deliver if students enter at different times. If a class are likely to be late to a lesson, I do a pre-starter. Fill a gap without losing purpose:
When you have introduced a new topic and are assessing students using mini white boards, boost their confidence and discuss misconceptions with my multiple choice answers. This strategy is especially useful if students are slow to respond to the first few questions.
Search for a
The site has always been able to create topic tests, but I'm now launching the QLA. The tool uses test data to highlight strengths & areas to develop, providing meaningful ff qus & an awareness of how to change plans.
@mathsjem
@missradders
@mrbartonmaths
Massive thanks to
@1stclassmaths
for the speedy check list! Phenomenal work!
Along with this and my hot topics list for P2, I've built this AQA F P2. Hopefully this will hit all the right spots. H paper coming in next 2hrs.
On screen version available
If you are going to model the answers to exam questions, you need all of the tools! Over the last couple of mornings I've been adding highlighters to the PDF annotation tool - thanks for the suggestion
@ColleenYoung
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#iteachmaths
Create an example pair to help you model a skill using my "I do, we do, you do"
#maths
generator.
🔍 Search for a topic
👆 Select "Model it"
🌟 Use stars to change difficulty
✅ Select a question to reveal the answer
#mathstwitter
#mathsteacher
@GEMS_ME
Need a
#maths
calendar task that focuses on common poorly answered topics. Get your November challenges here:
🔴 Numeracy
🟢 Foundation
🔵 Higher
Create your bespoke calendar here:
What questions would you ask if you showed common misconceptions like this?
50 of the 162 topic generators produce misconceptions like this. I aim to have them for every topic by the end of the summer.
@mathsjem
@bettermaths
@Dr_Secker
@mathequalslove
Having done a range of tests over the last few weeks, we are closing the gaps in our starters. At the request of my HoD, I have now added it as a heading option in the starter quadrant tool. Helps to signpost what we are focussing on.
#maths
#mathchat
Worst week EVER! I’ve been in an ambulance, seen rooms in a hospital that I never dreamt of seeing at 38. Today is the first day I have bareable pain in my head. My wife of 12 years has been my rock - LOVE YOU! Thank you
#NHS
for getting me on the road to recovery.
#ValentinesDay
For months I’ve been working on a few interactive class games. One was silently released a while back. Here is my growing multiple choice generator (that also collates points!). Who says fun is just end of term!
@mathsjem
@ColleenYoung
@WhatTheTrigMath
I've been quiet during the holidays, thoroughly enjoying some time off with the family... but it's time to start making some noise! I've cycled 500 miles in August, become a football coach, produced 2 new features for MWB & rewritten the PiXL subject apps. So much to share! 👀👇
My
#maths
exit ticket generator now produces the answers on page 2. Simply select 3 topics and how difficult you would like them to be, the system will then produce a unique exit ticket every time you come to generate it.
#mathswhiteboard
#iteachmaths
🔥 Exam paper analysis 🔥
Having built up a huge bank of written paper analysis templates on my QLA site, I've pointed my resources at the most commonly occuring topics from recent public exams. FREELY available here 👇
If you intend on doing Jun or Nov
Video took a little longer than expected but here is part 1. Hopefully I didn’t rush through bits too much. Video time stamps are listed in the YouTube description to allow you to skip to key points. Watch the full video:
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You can now produce a personalised revision card pack for every pupil based on individual exam result analysis using . The system identifies areas to develop & finds all of the relevant revision cards to meet a pupil's needs.
I'm proud to innovate on MWB!