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Author: Craig Barton
Writing Algebraic Expressions – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 7
What mistakes do students make when representing a situation as an algebraic expression? Essential Skills Quiz 7 has revealed some important and fascinating misconceptions held by both the Year 11s of Thornleigh Saleisan College, Bolton, andContinue reading
Loads of Starters – TES Maths Resource of the Week 93
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading
Two Way Tables – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 6
What mistakes do students make when filling in data and interpreting information from a two way table? It may be the half term holidays, but the Insight of the Week rolls on! Hundreds of schools andContinue reading
Mean from a list of data – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 5
What misconceptions do GCSE students have when it comes to more challenging questions about the mean of a set of numbers? Each week we set all our Year 11 Higher GCSE students a GCSE EssentialContinue reading
Maths Problems for Key Stage 2 and 3 – TES Maths Resource of the Week 91
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading
Drawing Cumulative Frequency Diagrams – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 4
“What misconceptions do GCSE Maths students have when it comes to plotting cumulative frequency diagrams from grouped data?” The number of students around the country taking these weekly quizzes is growing and growing, and asContinue reading
@TESMaths Resource of the Day: 28th September to 11th October
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
The Box: GCSE Higher Activity – TES Maths Resource of the Week 90
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading
Squaring Negative Numbers – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 3
“What misconceptions do GCSE students have when squaring negative numbers in the context of a table of values for a quadratic graph?” The number of students around the country taking these weekly quizzes is growingContinue reading
A Level Maths Assessments – TES Maths Resource of the Week 89
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading
Guest post: Number Rumbler
The following blog post has been written by the Maths Charity, “Maths on Toast” about their lovely Number Rumbler campaign. I hope you can support it. Craig Let’s make times tables family fun! “TimesContinue reading
Expanding Double Brackets – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 2
Each week we set all our Year 11 Higher GCSE students a GCSE Essential Skills Quiz from my Diagnostic Questions website. These quizzes are completely free and are designed to test the content that appearsContinue reading
@TESMaths Resource of the Day: 14th to 27th September
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
Fractions: All in one – TES (Premium) Resource of the Week 88
Every fourth Resource of the Week this year will highlight a top-quality Premium resource for sale on TES that has been created by a teacher. What is it? For my first review of a PremiumContinue reading
Simplifying Expressions – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 1
Each week we set all our Year 11 Higher GCSE students a GCSE Essential Skills Quiz from my Diagnostic Questions website. These quizzes are completely free and are designed to test the content that appearsContinue reading
ISS Earth Calculation – TES Maths ROTW 87
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading
Number: 5-star TES Maths Resources
Every 4 months, my lovely TES Maths Panel and I work our way through every single free Maths resource that has been uploaded to TES Maths and give them a score out of 5. ThisContinue reading
@TESMaths Resource of the Day: 31st August to 13th September
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
Percentages: Spot the Mistake – TES Maths Resource of the Week 86
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading











