Dan Rodriguez-Clark

Various cave painting in red on a cave wall.

A set of dark dinosaur footprints in solid rock.

Amazing to see real life history in Spain this weekend. Yesterday we saw Dinosaur Footprints 🦕 and today cave paintings. Can clearly see a family of 2 adults and 4 children.

I’m looking for a standardised or diagnostic assessment tool that can be used to determine specific strength and weakness of our students, with the view to improving and intervention in maths. For years 7-11. It’s an international school.

🧵 Next year my team have requested CPD on using tech in lessons. eg Geogebra/ Desmos/ AI.

QUESTION 1. Can you help me by pointing me in the direction of good resources that will help me plan sessions for them on these? I’m not a technophobe but it’s not something I do enough either.

A new one I learned this year, in Google Chrome you can create tab groups. So I have a tab group for each class open, which I can minimise when not teaching them. Means I can keep relevant tabs open, but hidden away so it doesn't get overcrowded.

Right click on a tab and there are loads of options

It is amazing how many people don't know that CTRL+C and CTRL+V are copy and paste. And CTRL+X is cut. Or CTRL+Z is undo.

I have one I made years ago available here on using the equation editor and some of the shortcuts.

drive.google.com/file/d/1UvC9...

I have updated most to JavaScript now. There are about 4 that I have not managed to get around to yet. Maybe in the next year...

Crypto Corner Crypto Corner is a website that provides detailed information on how to use a large variety of codes and ciphers. It also has a selection of flash activities to use the various codes.

My first ever coding project was on ciphers. This turned into Crypto Corner. The site hasn't had much love from me in recent years due to other projects, but still hopefully useful.

crypto.interactive-maths.com

End of Year activities? How about a game of bingo? Or a treasure hunt? Choose one (or multiple) topics and instantly create an activity. #MathsToday

generator.interactive-maths.com/maths-questi...

Three logos for websites offering different resources for teaching and learning maths.

I have 3 different websites under the Interactive Maths branding. If you teach Maths, do check them out.

I use pdfs which I annotate live using Kami or Edge. Easy and effective.

I also have a file saved on my desktop which is 8 blank A4 pages, so I can pull up a blank canvas at any point. I like the A4 nature as it makes it easier to print a saved copy if I need it, and matches what kids have.

In #MathsToday I am so proud of the results my IB HL and SL students achieved. 😀

In #MathsToday with year 12 / IB1 we looked at proving derivative results using proof by induction. In Year 9 we looked at the Konigsberg problem, and 'discovered' the rule for eulerian graphs.

In #MathsToday my year 7 class drew a pie chart of how they spend their free time. Obviously self reported data, but concerning how much time they think they are spending on social media.

In #MathsToday we looked at Algorithms in year 9. Used bubble sort and shuttle sort. Discussed how they are important for computers and got AI to create a little applet to show the steps. Lots of good discussion around this all.

Based upon something I put together for our exams Coordinator, this tool generates the announcement timings in exams.

tutor.interactive-maths.com/exam-timings

Share with whoever runs your exams as it might save them some time!

In #MathsToday we gave out 63 bronze, silver and gold certificates for the JMC, including two Olympiad qualifiers. Our best ever results!

Keep forgetting to add #MathsToday

Tree Diagrams...A Brain Wave ​I had a brain wave mid lesson today. I introduced my year 8 class to tree diagrams today. I have developed an approach that I find works really well for this, with one minor issue (which I will...

I haven't blogged in ages...
But I had a brain wave yesterday that made me want to write again.
Tree Diagrams - A Brain Wave
www.interactive-maths.com/blog/tree-di...

What would be some good topics to add to my #maths question generators? Currently there are 68 different ones, each with customisation options. What are the key topics people want to be able to quickly generate questions on?

A set of 16 cards each with a polynomial to differentiate

A set of 16 cards each with a derivative function on it.

Differentiating Polynomials updated on the generators, so you can make treasure hunts, odd one out, or just project example and your turn.
Here are some matching cards.

Free to use with no sign in (or opt to support me with a membership to remove Ads)

generator.interactive-maths.com

A question asking you to find the derivative, with the solution given below, with three buttons to regenerate a new question, show/hide the answer and show/hide the question.

I am quite chuffed with my new question type on the IB AAHL generator. Not so much for this particular question, but because I have managed to code it in a way that should allow me to do a lot more types on calculus.

generator.interactive-maths.com/ib-aa-hl-key...

I have been playing around with Google Gemini, specifically the GEMS. They seem very powerful for things you will do a lot, as you can preload a big prompt as to the role, the output wanted, and even upload files.

A Maths question showing a cuboid and asking you to find various lengths across the cuboid.

And another topic on the IB A&I SL generator: trig in cubois.
Randomly generated every time.

generator.interactive-maths.com/ib-ai-sl-exa...

A question showing a box plots and asking questions about it.

Randomly generated box plots questions on my IB A&I example question generator. Either project or turn into a worksheet. With solutions.

generator.interactive-maths.com/ib-ai-sl-exa...

In #MathsToday, after the JMC my year 8 class went outside to do some experimental probability. Lots of paper airplanes flying around the field.

I have completed the first unit of the new course on IB Maths A&A HL.

With this code you can get free access for a while.

I aim to release new skills each week moving forward.

Guess it is probably different compared to IB, but I have a few chi squared test questions on one of my generators. Might be useful to generate starters?

generator.interactive-maths.com/ib-ai-sl-exa...

An example of a treasure hunt activity generated randomly on the topic of expanding and simplifying brackets.

Use for free at generator.interactive-maths.com/maths-questi...

I don't see it as a meaningful context, more a way to ensure that students are not confusing related ideas. Rather than blindly using a rule, this ensures they have to choose the method.