Teresa Robinson
Education Consultant
teresaarob@yahoo.co.uk
MATHEMATICS
- Are your students results for Mathematics as good as you would like them to be?
- Is your percentage of A*-C grades as high as it could be?
- Are your students getting as many of the top Mathematics grades as you would like?
- Are your students really challenged in Mathematics?
- Do your Mathematics teachers ask probing questions and address misconceptions?
Teresa has recently provided support for Heads of Department, aspiring Advanced Skills Teachers, Trainee Teachers and non-subject specialists on the following issues:-
- Analysing data to compare individual pupil performance and cohort performance with target grades
- Identifing and supporting underperforming pupils
- Identifying and supporting C/D borderline pupils
- Identifying and supporting A*/A grade pupils
- Writing schemes of work
- Delivering the new National Curriculum
- ‘Rich tasks’
- Probing questions
- Encouraging pupil discussion
- Inporating key processes
- Incorporating thinking skills
- Provision for gifted and talented students
- Assessment for Learning
- Delivering 3 part lessons
- Teaching mathematics through games
WEBSITE LINKS
OTHER USEFUL WEBSITES
http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages-3-and-4/subjects/mathematics/index.aspx
http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/secondary/framework/maths/fwsm
Download APP materials http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/search/secondary/results/nav:46424
Starter of the Day http://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/index.htm
Jigsaw making tool http://www.mmlsoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=10
USEFUL DOCUMENTS
Support materials for teaching Functional Mathematics
APP - PowerPoint Presentation of probing questions in algebra
Common misconceptions in mathematics and how to correct them
GAMES TO SUPPORT THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS
Higher level - graphs and equations game to be played in pairs
Higher level - graphs cardsort
Activity to support the understanding of nth terms
Algebra statements - "always true, sometimes true, never true"
Number statements - "true, false and iffy"
nth term jigsaw - requires Vista