I was reminded this morning of why Twitter can be so useful – I
usually check the latest #mathchat tweets and saw Richard Wade’s
tweet with a link to the latest Teach Maths newsletter, on ‘Ten
Great Ideas’. The first item includes this wonderful Composite
Number Tree by Jeffrey Ventrella – I’m looking forward to trying
that with students after half term. I think it would make a
great starter. Students could work out themselves how the tree
is being formed and comment on any patterns they notice. Also
included in the first Newsletter item is the excellent
Primitives application by Alec McEachran, I included this myself
with some resources for looking at Prime Factors in an earlier
post. It’s a small world! I see the second item is on Craig
Barton’s Web Whizz video on Teachmathematics. You can see all
Craig’s videos here on TES Resources. On WolframAlpha, if you
query on a word you can see a word frequency history, see this
on Mathematics for example (the history is based on a Google
books sample of one million