The #summerblogchallenge Index

This post will be updated daily to reflect the latest posts that have been published. Anyone who is taking part in the #summerblogchallenge will have their posts listed here – as long as you use the hashtag #summerblogchallenge they will be picked up by me and @MissNorledge and indexed so everyone’s posts can be easily found.

My Posts (@DrBennison)

1. What is #sumerblogchallenge
2. Day 1 – Rational Functions
3. Day 2 – Restaurant Menus
4. Day 3 – AM-GM Inequality
5. Day 4 – Maths in the Media
6. Day 5 – The First #mathsjournalclub Article and Discussion Date
7. Day 7 – The Magic of the Micro: Part 1
8. Day 8 – Math(s) Teachers at Play 88
9. Day 9 – A Bit of Nostalgia
10. Day 10 – The Importance of Having a Break
11. Day 11 – My Twitter History
12. Bonus Post – My WordPress Anniversary
13. Day 12 – One of my Favourite Resources
14. Day 13 – An FMSP Extension Resource
15.  Day 14 – Barnsley’s Fern
16. Day 15 – Summer Further Mathematics Taster Questions
17. Day 16 – A Little Rant about Flash
18. Day 17 – A Few Thoughts on Negative Numbers
19. Day 18 – An Interesting Question from OCR
20. Day 19 – Calculators
21. Day 20 – Further Maths Taster Session for Year 10
22. Day 21 – FMSP Favourite Problems Number 3
23. Day 22 – A Picture of Tea
24. Day 23 – The Damn Quotient Rule
25. Day 24 – Very Short Introductions: Book Review 1
26. Day 25 – Whitstable Maths
27. Day 26 – One Week Till #mathsjournalclub
28. Day 27 – Parental Anxiety with Mathematics
29. Day 28 – For the Love of Books
30. Day 29 – A MathsJam Puzzle
31. Day 30 – Engaging with Academia
32. Day 31 – An Awful MyMaths Homework Question
33. Day 32 – A Bit More on Barnsley’s Fern
34. Day 33 – #mathsjournalcub TONIGHT!!
35. Day 34 – The First #mathsjournalclub Discussion
36. Day 35 – Anscombe’s Quartet
37. Day 36 – Timetable2calendar
38. Day 37 – Making an M1 Paper Harder
39. Day 38 – ZSL London and its Architecture
40. Day 39 – Twitter Chats
41. Day 40 – #mathsjournalclub Second Poll
42. Day 41 – Mathematicians’ Quote Posters
43. Day 42 – Suko
44. Day 43 – No Plan Starters
45. Day 44 – Further Maths Specification Mapping
46. Day 45 – Proof School
47. Day 46 – A VideoScribe Video

Christine Norledge (@MissNorledge)

1. 2015 #summerblogchallenge
2. Day 1 – 51 Days of Summer, The Blogpost Challenge and a Bit of Self Assessment
3. Day 2 – Lessons Learned Writing a Scheme of Work
4. Day 3 – Logarithmic Thinking, Evolution and Dinosaurs
5. Day 4 – Planning for GCSE 2015
6. Day 5 – How Does Bob Marley Like His Maths?
7. Day 6 – Quantity not Quality
8. Day 7 – Looking Back,Looking Forward
9. Day 8 – Exponential Growth and the Chessboard Problem
10. Day 9 – Pick of Twitter 26/07/15
11. Day 10 – the Importance of Trust
12. Day 11 – And Your Starter for Ten
13. Day 12 -Something Old, Something New
14. Day 13 – How to Bend Space and Time – The Joys of Twuffer
15.  Day 14 – The New Sudoku
16. Day 15 – It’s Only a Model…
17. Day 16 – It’s Only a Model – Part 2
18. Day 17 – My #summer10
19. Day 18 – My Twitter History
20. Day 19 – It’s a Marathon not a Sprint
21. Day 20 – Top 5 for Starters
22. Day 21 – Chinese School and the Photo Challenge
23. Day 22 – Photo Challenge (1) Infinite Mirrors
24. Day 23 – Photo Challenge (3) – Arches
25. Day 24 – Photo Challenge (3) Set with Playing Cards
26. Day 25 – Photo Challenge (4) It’s all Greek to Me
27. Day 26 – Photo Challenge (5) – Tiling Patterns
28. Day 27 – Photo Challenge (6) Triangular Bridge
29. Day 28 – Photo Challenge (7) More Arches in Ancona
30. Day 29 – I’m Back
31. Day 30 – Pick of Twitter 16/08/15
32. Day 31 – If This, What Next?
33. Day 32 – I’m Going Again…. (And Facebook)
34. Day 33 – Top 5 for Rich Tasks and Problem Solving
35. Day 34 – Top 5 for Worksheets
36. Day 35 – My Journey into Teaching
37. Day 36 – To 5 Stationary Must Haves
38. Day 37 – Miss, Do You Enjoy Teaching?
39. Day 38 – Pick of Twitter 24/08/15
40. Day 39 – An IFTTT and Pocket Update
41. Day 40 – Three New Blogs
42. Day 41 – Six Good Comics and One Good Thing
43. Day 42 – An Intriguing Use of Primes
44. Day 43 – Google Trends
45. Day 44 – Pick of Twitter 30/08/15
46. Day 45 – My #summer 10 Revisited
47. Day 46 – My Classroom, Part 1
48. Day 47 – Display Goodies
49. Day 48 – Command Word Posters
50. Day 49 – Back to School Essentials
51. Day 50 – Useful Things for Website Developers
52. Day 51 – (Almost) Failing at the Final Hurdle

Mark Wilson (@mwimaths)

1. Day 1 – Psyching Myself Up
2. Day 2 – Circle Theorem Toolkit
3. Day 3 – In Praise of Teacher Led Inset
4. Day 4 – Google Keep as a Task Management Tool
5. Day 5 – Mix It Up: A Group Work Strategy
6. Day 6 – Transitioning to BYOD
7. Day 7 – Time Management Video
8. Day 8 – The Digital Native
9. Day 9 – Digital Card Sorts
10. Day 10 – Assignment Workflow
11. Day 11 – Revision Carousel
12. Day 12 – I Didn’t Want to do Maths
13. Day 13 – Google Search Takeaways
14. Day 14 – Fermi Questions
15. Day 15 – Stand Off
16. Day 16 – Set Theory Extension
17. Day 17 – Book Marking
18. Day 18 – Fermi Questions: A Worked Example
19. Day 19 – Taking Sabbaths
20. Day 20: Statistical Stories
21. Day 21 – BYOD: Some Tools
22. Day 22 – Subtracting From Questions
23. Day 23 – Who’s Studying Further Maths?
24. Day 24 – Teaching Google Sheets
25. Day 25 – Incognito Mode
26. Day 26 – Sunday Sabbatical: Podcasts
27. Day 27 – The 5 Minute Lecture
28. Day 28 – Homework, Feedback and Forms
29. Day 29 – docAppender and Keeping in the Loop
30. Day 30 – Don’t Watch the News Today
31. Day 31 – Multistep Chains
32. Day 32 – Set Zero: An Appeal
33. Day 33 – Sunday Sabbaticals: Mathematical Pilgrimages
34. Day 34 – Doctopus and Homework Feedback
35. Day 35 – Classroom and Calendars
36. Day 36 – Loop and the Introduction to Mechanics
37. Day 37 – Analysing the Answers
38. Day 38 – In Defense of Rote
39. Day 39 – Keeping Track Using VLOOKUP
40. Day 40 – Sunday Sabbaticals: xkcd
41. Day 41 – Farewell to the #summerblogchallenge

Archbishop Sancroft High School Maths Department (@ASHS_Maths)

1. Day 1 – Vertical Tutoring
2. Day 2 – Year 6s Starting in July
3. Day 3 – Down Time

Jennifer Stice (@mathchick5)

1. Day 1 – Activity Based Approach and the Success in “Doing Math“
2. Day 4 – Getting to Know You: Back to School Activities Using Technology

Kim Thomas Lee (@kimThomasLee)

1. Day 1 – Why I Love Teaching Fractions
2. Day 2 – I’m Still Thinking About Fractions
3. Day 3 – A Fraction of the Fractions Lessons, that I Still Love Teaching
4. Day 4 – Don’t Call me Average… That’s Mean, But at Least I Get to Eat the Smarties
5. Day 5 – Numeracy, do the Statistics Add Up? I Think They Are Scary
6. Day 6 – Numeracy Across the Curriculum, How do I Manage to Use Sport in my Lessons?
7. Day 7 – Why do we Need to be Numerate?
8. Day 8 -Numeracy Within MFL
9. Day 9 – Did I Use Numeracy Today? Of Course I Did, I Use It Everyday
10. Day 10 – Never Underestimate the Value of Tea
11. Day 11 – Design Technology:Numeracy in the Real World
12. Day 15 – A Quick Reference to Golf
13. Day 16 – Numeracy in English Lessons
14. Day 17 – Encouraging Literacy in Maths Lessons
15. Day 18 – Why Does a Maths Teacher Read the Core Texts?
16. Day 19 – Learning Styles, Starting With a Critique of My Learning Style
17. Day 20 – Seating Plans and Collaborative Learning Structures
18. Day 21 – Flipped Learning for Revision
19. Day 22 – Art and the Aesthetics of Mathematics
20. Day 23 – Starting Year 7, My Wishlist
21. Day 24 – Do Music and Maths Add Up
22. Day 25 – Students Say the Funniest Things
23. Day 26 – What About Those Who Don’t?
24. Day 27 – Will Your Job Use Maths? An Interesting Clip
25. Day 28 – Talk for Teaching
26. Day 29 – The Best Maths Quotes
27. Day 30 – The Pure Mathematical Beauty of Game Theory
28. Day 31 – The Maths and the Morals of BOGOF, BOGO and BOGOHP
29. Day 32 – The Economics, or is it Numeracy of Pocket Money
30. Day 33 – Numeracy Challenge Days
31. Day 34 – What About Those Times When Technology Fails
32. Day 35 – Rewards
33. Day 36 – If the World was a Village of a 100, One of my Favourite Resources
34. Day 37 – The New School Year, the Cost of Returning to School

@funASDteacher

1. Day 1 – I’m Here Because No-one Else Will Have Me
2. Day 2 – Match Your Books
3. Day 3 – Make Us Wait
4. Day 4 – Push Your Own Boundaries
5. Day 5 – Ode to the Envelope
6. Day 6 – Learn Like a Pirate
7. Day 7 – Where to Sit
8. Day 8 – Let’s Get Writing
9. Day 9 – M is for Autism
10. Day 10 – Notice the Small Things
11. Day 11 – Special Interests
12. Day 12 – Lose the Glare
13. Day 13 – Change the Objective
14. Day 14 – The Devil is in the Detail
15. Day 15 – Inclusion or Exclusion
16. Day 16 – The Obsession with Time
17. Day 17 – Braving The Technology
18. Day 18 – Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
19. Day 19 – Support the Support Staff
20. Day 20 – Show Me How
21. Day 21 – If in Doubt, Make a List
22. Day 22 – Teaching Like a Pirate? Really?
23. Day 23 – Photocopier Traumas
24. Day 24 – Factor in the Anxiety
25. Day 25 – Routines: Friend or Foe?
26. Day 26 – Ask Questions
27. Day 27 – Making Mistakes
28. Day 28 – Time to Reboot
29. Day 29 – 5 Point Scale
30. Day 30 – The First Day
31. Day 31 – Group Work

It would be amazing to be able to add you to the above list……