On this episode of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast, I spoke to Daisy Christodoulou. Daisy is a former English teacher and the current Head of Assessment at Ark Schools. She also has a new job forContinue reading
Tag: Assessment for Learning
Year 7 Baseline Maths Tests – Assessing without levels
Recently, I have been doing a lot of thinking about assessment – as you can imagine, my wife has been delighted. In my series of blog posts about writing our new maths scheme of work, IContinue reading
Adding new classes and students to Diagnostic Questions
It is that time of year again! Students have moved classes and new students have joined your school. Here is your simple guide to making all the necessary changes to your Diagnostic Questions set-up. AndContinue reading
My new AfL with Diagnostic Questions workshop
From September 2015, on Wednesday afternoons and all day Thursday, I will be available to deliver a brand-new, Assessment for Learning with Diagnostic Questions workshop in your school. This will be a high-quality (I promise!)Continue reading
Diagnostic Question Badges and Reputation Points
Over at Diagnostic Questions, we have introduced a new feature, whereby students and teachers (because I know you wouldn’t want to be left out!), can earn badges and reputation points based on their levels ofContinue reading
Writing a new Maths Scheme of Work – Part 18: Feedback, Dialogue and Redrafting
You can view all the posts in the epic “Writing a Maths Scheme of Work” series on this page. It’s kind of like Game of Thrones, only with slightly less nudity and dragons. A whole schoolContinue reading
Diagnostic Questions: exciting news
It gives me great pleasure to unveil a sneak preview of three brand-new, exciting features that are coming to Diagnostic Questions in the new academic year. As we have said from the outset, we wantContinue reading
The 5 most interesting misconceptions in mathematics – my Edexcel Maths Conference Talk, July 2015
On Saturday 4th July, I was kindly invited to give the opening address at the wonderful Edexcel Maths Conference in Warwick. The title of my talk was “The 5 most interesting misconceptions in mathematics”. QuiteContinue reading
New Diagnostic Questions features
I have recorded a new “Diagnostic Questions in 2 and half minutes” video to showcase the main features of the website. I have also updated the video guides to reflect the lovely new (free!) featuresContinue reading
@TESMaths Resource of the Day: 9th to 15th March 2015
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
GCSE Maths Countdown: Days 100 to 91
As I mentioned in a previous post, each day I am tweeting out one Higher and one Foundation Maths GCSE Diagnostic Question. I have chosen these to cover as wide a range of the courseContinue reading
Diagnostic Questions in Students’ Exercise Books
One of our NQTs, Jess Murphy, showed me a lovely way she has been using the new pdf feature of her Year 8 students’ responses to a Diagnostic Question quiz. And she has kindly allowedContinue reading
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions: Maths Diagnostic Question of the Week 18
What are the major misconceptions that students have when it comes to simplifying algebraic expressions, or collecting like terms? Specifically, what happens when students are faced with squared and non-squared terms? Using real life data andContinue reading
Diagnostic Questions – new videos and features!
I have recorded a new series of videos to highlight some of the new (completely free!) features available on my Diagnostic Questions website, and to help out different users find the information and features they areContinue reading
Diagnostic Questions: How to add students
There are loads of exciting new features, all freely available at my Diagnostic Questions website. These include the ability to import students and assign quizzes, which they can answer on their phones, tablets or computers.Continue reading
Diagnostic Questions: analysing your students’ results
One of my favourite new features of my Diagnostic Questions website is the ability to analyse your students’ responses to a quiz. There is the immediacy of the automatic marking, giving you an instant feel forContinue reading
Diagnostic Questions: Exciting New Features :-)
On Monday we launched a load of new features on our Diagnostic Questions website. These are all free, and include the ability to: Import students and classes Assign quizzes to your students which they canContinue reading
Maths Diagnostic Question Bundles 12: More Quizzes! :-)
Loads more top quality quizzes have been added to the maths Diagnostic Questions website this week, both by myself and by other users. This makes me very happy 🙂 Remember, you can use these directlyContinue reading
Maths Diagnostic Question Bundles 7: A Level and GCSE Questions
An exciting week in the world of my free maths Diagnostic Questions website. Not only did we breeze past the 3,000 question and 6,000 registered users mark, but we now have two more lovely collections ofContinue reading
Question of the Week 10: Solving Quadratic Equations
The following question is taken from my website Diagnostic Questions. Here you will find 1000s of free, high quality maths multiple choice diagnostic / hinge questions, ideal for Assessment for Learning, which have been created andContinue reading