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@TickTockMaths That’s seems very cut and dry. I learn from worked examples almost exclusively and I’m a pretty good Mathematician.

@howie_hua That’s a pretty good idea. I would caveat it with assuming you want to travel faster. Just to be pedantic about it.

I used to think teaching unit conversions was boring...until I turned the questions into "Would you rather?" questions. Ex: Would you rather drive 100 ft/sec or 40 mph?

@HoneywillTim Was a bit of a tricky one. Did they manage it?

This was my way of covering transformations extension work without having to draw a diagram :)

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@missamackay @mcwardgow For online teaching the same way i would use a blackboard. Except I can quickly improvise and copy-paste questions and parts of the method on the fly. There’s an example of me using one on my website if you want to get a better idea.

@missamackay @mcwardgow Yes. It’s been the best thing. Definitely recommend.

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@mikercameron Do they have to memorise them? Who even does that? I know two identities off top of my head rest I look up.

Trig identities are the times tables of A-Level maths.

@steelemaths @danicquinn They could mix powers and signs. I always try to keep my examples simple to avoid misconceptions

@salfordteacher @TeaKayB Yeah that’s definitely one. I think there are lots of reasons why it has a low popularity. The way it is presented to them in school could be putting a lot of students off.

1/2 The problem most kids seem not to like Maths, it’s because I think they believe, that to be good at something you understand it immediately. Whereas maths a subject where you have to make many, many mistakes before you make progress.