Friendly Maths Teacher

A friendly Lead Practitioner of Maths. GCSE success rate higher than the hunting success rate of a pack of African Wild Dogs. Experience-led approach.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

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[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@MrLGeo @TeacherTapp As a Maths teacher, I’d say that there are things I do regularly using my smartboard that make my presenting of information better than using a regular whiteboard and projector.

I still prefer to be stood at the front modelling rather than hunched over a visualiser personally.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@jdUKHK @adamboxer1 White Rose is a problem full-stop.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@Dids31 Do you not find the OCR papers easier? Particularly on Higher. I moved to a school that uses Edexcel and I’ve found the Higher papers usually push me slightly towards the back on occasions where the OCR papers were always a breeze.

I do like having the Predicted Papers sooner.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@Miss_Snuffy Really good example being set here Katharine.

Also, very few attacked you for kids attending Sat revision sessions.

They attacked you for potentially placing student who didn’t attend into referral.

You have no right to punish students for not attending during their weekend.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@MrLGeo I’ve said this for a long time.

If you’re a Maths teacher using PowerPoint you are restricting yourself in so many ways.

If you have a decent IWB you should be using ActivInspire or similar.

The fact a lot of professionally made resources like WRM are PP-based is a red flag.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@zakfilm He’s right. Most academy-chain schools are only bothered about trying to get that Progress 8 score as high as possible now.

No time for music, drama, and in lesser cases sport.

Forget finding your potential calling. Get to “Option Maths” and get that life-changing grade 4.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@Headteacherchat Very poor obviously. If they want to offer these sessions and encourage children to attend fair enough. But there is no way they should be punished for not attending.

If this school is as good as is portrayed Monday to Friday they shouldn’t need to do this anyway.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@LeeMcClymont @annavanpraagh Should be 100% this year. Students who I had any concerns about came in to my optional session over Easter and I didn’t need to threaten them with a punishment either. 😎👌🏼

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@WayneVaughan @FixingEducation And your $49 per month, per student, model will get outstanding results I take it?

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@BarryNSmith79 It should still be optional and they should not be punished for not attending on a weekend.

That’s where the issue lies.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@LeeMcClymont @hb_history If the school is as good as it claims it shouldn’t need weekend classes to achieve excellence.

Those weekend classes should be optional and non-attendance should not be punished.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@WayneVaughan @FixingEducation Standing in front of them and giving them instruction isn’t a mistake. It’s teaching.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@WayneVaughan @FixingEducation It’s very different.

If you’ve got a mixed ability set and you’re trying to teach algebraic fractions (easy example).

If you have mixed sets and some students don’t understand basic fractions you have absolute chaos.

It demotivate weaker students far more than setting.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@FixingEducation I can’t believe anyone who’s taught Maths could think otherwise to be honest.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@OurOldDad @neetu_arnold Exactly. The big problem with setting in my experience is that well-behaved, weak students end up in a group with more able naughty students and then can’t make any progress.

In well-managed schools where behaviour is less of an issue, the lower sets still do make good progress.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@ShakinthatChalk Humans would be a start in some trusts.

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

So teaching students in mixed-ability sets and deliberately slowing the exposure of more challenging topics under the guise of “mastery” actually reduces progress? Who would ever have thought it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Friendly Maths Teacher @Friendly_Maths]

@BarryNSmith79 @SamStrickers181 I’m with you Barry. 💯

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