Category Archives: Links

107. The Validator returns

Back in Post 72 I looked at the idea of a student validator, which had been developed by Mr Reddy (@MrReddyMaths).

View the original post here.

Well, I discussed it with my colleagues and a couple of us tried it out. It worked like a dream. Pupils of all abilities and ages took responsibility for checking work and giving advice. In fact it was so successful we have adopted it as Department. My HoD had seen ‘Peer Assessed’ stampers and ordered those as well as lanyards for everyone:

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I’d like to thank Mr Reddy for sharing his idea on his blog.

If you want to introduce this concept to your pupils/staff check out my videoscribe introduction on YouTube. I’m still new to videoscribe, so it’s a bit jumpy, but the summary gets the message across.

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104. Percentages shout out

I used a great resource from Whidds at TES resources this week:

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It’s a differentiated percentages trail. You or your students can set the level of difficulty using a neat traffic light system. The resource includes a powerpoint and two different activities.

Download it here.

Thank you to Whidds for sharing this great idea.

101. Stick ’em up

I get just a tad frustrated when I spend time in lessons discussing targets and getting pupils to write them somewhere safe, only for the same pupils to tell SLT, when they drop in, that they don’t know what their targets are!

So I’ve re-found these stickers which we had in school a couple of years ago, but lapsed in using.

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I bought these ‘GCSE Assessment stickers’ and ‘KS3 Assessment stickers’ from School Stickers on Amazon UK for £1.96 per pack. I’ve already started using them and my classes seem receptive to brightly coloured targets.

97. The Dancing Cipher (part two)

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If you look back to one of my early blog posts called ‘The Dancing Cipher’ on code breaking, I explained how to use the ‘Dancing Men’ code as an extended homework project.

You can now download the instructions/task, self assessment sheet and solution below:

Self-assessment sheet

Letter frequency analysis project

Letter frequency analysis project answer

96. Free (editable) Flashcards

I was looking for some Maths paper when I was on Printablepaper.net, when I came across a ‘sister’ site: Printableflashcards.net. This website has free flashcards covering many different subjects/topics and is worth a browse.
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The biggest selling point to me was you can create flashcards without requiring a double sided printer or cursing the photocopier for misaligning your originals. You don’t have to glue them (unless you want to) as they will stand nicely on the desk once they are folded, with the answer face down on the table. You can use the Flash Card Generator to create your own set of 4/6 (or multiples of 4/6) flashcards.