On this episode of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast I spoke to Andrew Taylor, the Head of Maths at AQA. I asked Andrew many questions, including: All of the resources Andrew mentions can be found at AllContinue reading
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Guest Blog: Pinpoint Learning by Tom Quilter
It is my pleasure to introduce the following guest blog post by Tom Quilter. He is an incredibly passionate maths teacher from Mossbourne Community Academy, and he has created a wonderful, free maths website calledContinue reading
BIDMAS (order of operations) – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 10
What misconceptions do students have with the order of operations, otherwise knows as BIDMAS, BODMAS or PEDMAS? Similar to last week, we again saw some wonderfully answered questions on GCSE Essential Skills Quiz 10, suggestingContinue reading
Trigonometry Matching Pairs Game – TES Maths Resource of the Week 97
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
Understanding Algebraic Expressions – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 9
What misconceptions do students have when it comes to understanding and interpreting algebraic expressions? Essential Quiz 9 is officially the best answered GCSE Essential Skills Quiz in history! There was a success rate of 73%Continue reading
TESMaths ROTD: November
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
Mega PowerPoint 3 – TES Maths Resource of the Week 96
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to purchase by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here Every fourth Resource ofContinue reading
Bike Tyre: A Maths Modelling Activity – TES Maths ROTW 95
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
Tree Diagrams (independent events) – GCSE Maths Insight of the Week 8
What misconceptions do students have with tree diagrams involving independent events and decimals? Essential Skills Quiz 8 has once again revealed some fundamental misconceptions our Year 11 students have with key areas of mathematics. Topics thatContinue reading
SickMaths Core 1 Textbook – TES Maths Resource of the Week 94
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
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