Josh Evans

Secondary Maths Teacher. Rubik’s Cube Enthusiast. RI Surrey Speaker.

[Josh Evans @JevansMaths]

Maths teachers, get your students to check out my instagram for some maths puzzles, worked examples, quotes and cartoons/videos of key mathematical ideas.

I’m keen to get students to think about maths (even just a little) while they scroll!

https://t.co/atlQuOkaij

[Josh Evans @JevansMaths]

@MathsImpact "Mathematicians aren't people who find maths easy, they enjoy how hard it is"

[Josh Evans @JevansMaths]

@ChrisMcGrane84 Applying what you know to what you don't know.

Don't think it can be taught but we just need to expose students to as many different contexts as possible. Promote flexibility in their knowledge.

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🟢 DISTRIBUTING POWERS

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🟢 COMPLETING THE SQUARE

I’d only us something like this as a reminder after introducing the concept more rigorously the first few times.

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🟢 BASIC POWERS

Visualisation of basic powers. That is all.

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@Carol_Maths @mrsevansmaths Yeah, I usually show the digits moving once or twice and then observe with the class what the decimal point ‘seems’ to be doing… 👍🏻

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🟢 STANDARD FORM

Little animation to show how to convert from standard form to an ordinary number (and back again!)

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@suffolkmaths Ha, whoops! Should have chosen my fraction a little more carefully! 😅

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🟢 DIVIDING FRACTIONS

I suppose some people will want to tell me that the divide sign doesn’t actually work like this… 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@MrS_Choudhury Procreate on the iPad 👍🏻

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🟢 EXPANDING SINGLE BRACKETS

Visualisation for moving from brackets to the grid/area method.

Wonder if this post will be as controversial as my standard form one… 🤔

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@mrsevansmaths Someone pointed me in the direction of this short article from Colin Foster (https://t.co/J9ZwKtkRwk)
Does it change your mind at all?

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@_MrBidwell @cjheppleston I use Procreate on my iPad. They took AAAAGES at the start but with practice you can make them pretty quick! 👍🏻

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@suffolkmaths @longwhitefoot Next time!! 😅

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@longwhitefoot @suffolkmaths I understand what you mean but I’m not sure I totally agree. 🤔
Most of the time, we transition to use patterns and shortcuts instead of rigorous methods. I guess one measure of expertise is having a strong enough understanding to correctly use a shortcut method…? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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🟢 PROPORTION

How I have always pictured moving from writing a proportional relationship to an equation with a proportionality constant.

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@MrMac_Math 4/4 And it isn't always 'brightest' teaching 'weakest'. I've had numerous times where the top in the group has been taught by the someone else.
Would throughly recommend giving it a go!

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@MrMac_Math 3/4 Finally, at the end I ask the class if they would like to nominate any particularly good teachers. Lovely way to end and give recognition to the difficult skill of teaching!