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    Armchair Maths 1: Percentage Scaling

    August 5, 2020August 5, 2020
    Posted by Mr Alhassan
    I am in the process of moving house due to various job changes. Anyone who has ever even glanced at someone at any point in the house moving process will instantly feel a pang of empathy, and anyone who has gone through the process of selling their house and buying another house may need to
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    Lesson Evaluation: Using a rule sequence for functions

    July 9, 2020July 9, 2020
    Posted by Mr Alhassan
    I am a relatively new convert to the maths CPD community, and my gateway drug was Craig Barton’s seminal “Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain” – a sprawling, yet tightly focussed, work that deftly balances the weighty tide of education academia and the stochastic fever dream that is a typical year 9 classroom. One of the interesting
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    #MathsConf23 Reflections: What before why

    June 21, 2020June 21, 2020
    Posted by Mr Alhassan
    MathsConf23 has now been and gone, and as my first ever maths teacher conference I have to say it was an absolute blast – the team at La Salle education should be feeling very proud right now. I’ve been interested in the past, but a young family and the demands of normal teaching always made
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    #BLM: Thoughts as a BAME educator

    June 10, 2020June 10, 2020
    Posted by Mr Alhassan
    I have a strange relationship with race, but suffice to say that it doesn’t really register with me day-to-day. By and large, I surround myself with people who are like minded, and I honestly believe that the vast majority of people in the UK really don’t give a damn about your skin colour – or,
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    Methods 1: Prime factor decomposition

    June 5, 2020June 5, 2020
    Posted by Mr Alhassan
    Twitter has been full of intense debate over the past week about the methods that teachers use for different topics. While I’m sure a lot of it is very much old news to a vast majority of teachers, I always enjoy seeing the debate spark up. This post contains my reflections on one of the
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    Reflections on practice 2: Assessing (and using!) prior knowledge

    May 29, 2020May 29, 2020
    Posted by Mr Alhassan
    Hands up if you’ve ever had a similar train of thought as the following when doing medium term planning: “Okay, middle set year 9, fractions… They can probably simplify fractions, so I won’t bother with that too much, but I know, just know, that a fair few will be a bit ropey with equivalent fractions,
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    Stepping it up: Part 1 – Purposeful Practice

    May 18, 2020May 20, 2020
    Posted by Mr Alhassan
    Amidst the undulating and unrelenting grimness of current events, I feel almost bad for being excited about my promotion to Director of Learning for Maths in September, and the fire that it’s lit in my, until now, rather limited CPD efforts. Almost as if it was slightly tacky, and I should instead be walking around
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