Maths teacher, Engineer, Doctor of Philosophy
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2 Sep 2025
Teaching finding stationary points via differentiation today, I decided to only teach them how to find the x and then y-values, and let them practise that process. Next lesson I'll just teach about completing nature tables: tes.com/resource-detail/-133…
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19 Dec 2024
Here's my expressions round from our department's mathematical Christmas quiz. Share and enjoy!
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13 Dec 2024
Some practice for the kinds of Higher Circle questions that pupils find hard. Because, as @mrallanmaths points out, it's really just S1/2 geometry questions. Feel free to use with either year group! tes.com/resource-detail/reso…
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17 Oct 2024
I made this towards the end of our topic on quadrilaterals (and they had previously done circles). Pupils always need more practice of working backwards, and this worked well: the difficulty ramps up nicely. Worksheet with answers is at tes.com/resource-detail/area…
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11 May 2022
This pupil answered a reverse percentages question with a method that I'd never thought of, but which makes perfect sense. They've just invented negative indices with a 'real' context.
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New! My 156th gems post. Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎
resourceaholic.com/2022/04/5…
Hat tips to follow!
#mathsgems #mathschat #teammaths
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30 Mar 2022
So this task was great today - lots of engagement and rich discussion. 1/4
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30 Mar 2022
As a starter we did this great task from @giftedHKO, which had them already thinking about pairs. 3/4
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27 Mar 2022
So I had this idea for a worksheet. Any suggestions before I try it out on pupils next week?
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28 Mar 2022
Thanks for the replies. A streamlined sheet (only Q1 and Q3) is now available here tes.com/teaching-resource/-1… (in two versions - to cater for both the πd and 2πr camps). I'll be trying it with my class on Wednesday - last lesson of the term.
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19 Dec 2021
I couldn't find a sheet that I liked which worked backwards from the area of triangles and/or rectangles to find missing lengths, so I wrote one. tes.com/teaching-resource/re…
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30 Oct 2021
About to write a worksheet on solving trig equations, and decided I wanted 'nice' answers. And I wanted to use fractions or surds instead of decimals. So I made some alternative trig. tables before starting.
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19 Feb 2021
Another set of questions focusing on one step in a larger process. This time solving first order differential equations using the integrating factor.
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8 Feb 2021
Focussed practice of the part of proof by induction that my pupils find the hardest to get correct: how to start the induction step.
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19 Jan 2021
These questions went down well with my class this morning - inspired by the integral 'looky-likeys' from @WaysWithMaths (via @ChrisMcGrane84)
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6 Nov 2020
My AH class flew through the first questions in today's starter but then discovered that the later ones needed more thought. Integration is harder than differentiation...
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31 Oct 2020
A new worksheet of mine that's already had a great response from both N5 and Higher classes at school. Inspired by @ChrisMcGrane84, but focusing on the particular area of quadratics that they need right now. tes.com/teaching-resource/qu… via @tesResources
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6 May 2020
Picking a favourite #donsteward resource is impossible. So here's just a few I've used recently:
donsteward.blogspot.com/2011…
donsteward.blogspot.com/2013…
donsteward.blogspot.com/2012…
And his practice makes perfect sheets are also great:
donsteward.blogspot.com/2018…
donsteward.blogspot.com/2018…
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