Marvellous Maths 2: Misconceptions, Methods and Mastery
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Data and Diagnostic Questions

What is a Diagnostic Question?
DQ
The results are in!
Resource: ABCD template
Link: Eedi Help centre
How to get the data and explanations
Link: Diagnostic Questions collection page
Decimals: What do students meet and when?

A quiz!
Decimals: What do students meet and when?
The answers!
Link: National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study
Decimals: Place value and ordering - misconceptions

What students do well
Where students go wrong - introduction
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Reflection
Decimals: Place value and ordering - methods and mastery

1. Conceptual Thinking
2. Words Matter
3. Visualisation
Tool: Math blocks
Tool: Dienes Blocks
4. Number Lines
Tool: What is the location of the red point?
Resource: Zoomable number line
Resource: Decimal scales
5. Decimals - Introductory Tasks
Resource: Nearest to
Resource: Fraction and decimal equivalents
Resource: Place value with decimals
6. Decimals - Seeking Inspiration
Decimals: Working with 0.1, 0.01, 10, 100 etc - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Decimals: Working with 0.1, 0.01, 10, 100 etc - methods and mastery

1. Powers of 10
Further reading: NRICH
Resource: Multiplication and division
2. Using calculators
Resource: Calculator activity
3. Equivalence of multiply and divide
Resource: Linking multiplication and division
Decimals: Addition and subtraction - misconceptions

1. What do students do well
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Reflection
Decimals: Addition and subtraction - methods and mastery

Addition and Subtraction
Resource: Decimal addition
Resource: Addition and subtraction of decimals
Resource: Variations
Decimals: Multiplication - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Decimals: Multiplication - methods and mastery

1. Multiplication Methods
Questions to try
Book: Mathematical methods
2. Multiplication Tasks
Resource: Easy to check
Resource: Decimal practice makes perfect
Resource: Decimal multiplication and division
3. Using calculators in multiplication
Resource: Electronic calculators
Decimals: Division - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Decimals: Division - methods and mastery

1. Division concepts
2. Exploring division with calculators
Resource: Calculator maths
3. Division tasks
Resource: Decimal practice makes perfect
Decimals: Related place value calculations - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Decimals: Related place value calculations - methods and mastery

Related calculations
Resource: Place value and other related calculations
Resource: Decimal calculations - right or wrong?
Decimals: Extra resources from our sponsors

1. White Rose Maths - place value
2. White Rose Maths - arithmetic
AQA - FDP quiz.pdf
Coordinates: What do students meet and when?

A quiz!
Coordinates: What do students meet and when?
The answers
Link: National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study
Coordinates: Naming and plotting - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Coordinates: Naming and plotting - methods and mastery

1. Subject Knowledge
2. Naming and Plotting - Quadrant 1
Interactive Tool: Hit the Coordinate
Resource: Coordinate Message
Resource: Coordinate Sequences
3. Naming and Plotting - All Quadrants
Resource: Coordinate Grids Spot the Error
Resource: Coordinates Lesson from Boss Maths
Coordinates: Geometrical reasoning - misconceptions

What students do well
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Coordinates: Geometrical reasoning - methods and mastery

1. Quadrilaterals
2. Geometrical Reasoning
Resource: Quadrilaterals and Coordinates
Coordinates: Midpoint - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Coordinates: Midpoint - methods and mastery

Midpoints
White Rose Maths - Coordinates
Coordinates: Coordinates on lines - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Coordinates: Coordinates on lines - methods and mastery

Points on Lines
Resource: Coordinate Practice
Resource: 4 in a Line Extended
Coordinates: Extra resources from our sponsors

White Rose Maths - Coordinates
AQA - Coordinates quiz
Pythagoras' Theorem: What do students meet and when?

What students meet and when
Pythagoras' Theorem: Labelling sides - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Pythagoras' Theorem: Labelling sides - methods and mastery

1. Subject Knowledge
Video: Pythagoras – the Mystic Philosopher from Ancient Greece
Blog post: 10 Strange Facts About Pythagoras: Mathematician And Cult Leader
Video: How many ways are there to prove the Pythagorean theorem?
Interactive textbook: Pythagoras’ Theorem
2. Labelling sides
Resource: Labelling the hypotenuse
Pythagoras' Theorem: Finding the length of sides - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Pythagoras' Theorem: Finding the length of sides - methods and mastery

1. Length of hypotenuse
Resource: Pythagoras Fluency
Resource: Grid Triangles and Pythagoras
2. Pythagoras - Length of leg
Resource: Pythagoras Fluency
Resource: Mosaic Puzzle
3. Pythagoras - Triples
Resources: Don Steward’s Triples Tasks
Blog: Pythagorean Triples
Pythagoras' Theorem: Method selection - misconceptions

What students do well
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Reflection
Pythagoras' Theorem: Method selection - methods and mastery

Method Selection
Website: SSDD Problems
Pythagoras' Theorem: Applying the theorem - misconceptions

What students do well
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Pythagoras' Theorem: Applying the theorem - methods and mastery

Applying the theorem
Blog Post: Applied Pythagoras
Blog Post: New GCSE Pythagoras Questions
Resource: Pythagoras Pile Up
Resource: Pythagoras Problems
Pythagoras' Theorem: Extra resources from our sponsors

White Rose Maths - Pythagoras' Theorem
AQA - Pythagoras quiz
Takeaways, next steps and course feedback

Takeaways and next steps
Course feedback
Course Certificate
Other things to check out from Craig

Craig's online courses
Craig's online courses
Craig's book: How I wish I'd taught maths
Craig's book: Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain
Mr Barton Maths website
Mr Barton Maths Podcast
Diagnostic Questions
Variation Theory
SSDD Problems
Maths Venns
Other things to check out from Jo

Resourceaholic site tour
Resourceaholic website
Jo's online CPD videos
Jo's book: A Compendium Of Mathematical Methods

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