Hello everyone,

In these troubling, uncertain times I thought it would be a good idea to share links to some ideas and resources that might prove useful in the event of school closures due to covid-19. All of these are 100% free.

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‍Diagnostic Questions / Eedi

You could set some quizzes for your students to practice. These quizzes are automatically marked, and the insights reveal the specific nature of misconceptions your students might have.

To set individual quizzes, a good place to start is the Collections page on Diagnostic Questions. Here are some of my favourite collections, rammed full of lovely quizzes:

• Mixed-topic Revision Quizzes for SATs and GCSE
• Eedi GCSE topic quizzes
• White Rose quizzes for Years 1 to 8
  

Alternatively, you could set up a SOW from any of these collections so your students receive quizzes at regular intervals. Eedi is the place to do this.

If you haven’t already, you’ll need to get your classes set up on the platform. We can set this up for you by emailing hello@eedi.co.uk with a spreadsheet of all of your student’s first name, last name, class name on one spreadsheet. If you would like a template, please click here.

This will enable each child to complete assessments from home on their own devices.

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Practice - all year groups

Keep your students’ maths skills sharp with plenty of practice. Or better still, direct your students to practice the areas of weakness you have identified using Diagnostic Questions / Eedi. Here are some of my favourites:

• Corbett Maths - topic worksheets, textbook exercises, and mixed revision with the 5-a-days. The man is a legend.
• Dr Frost Maths - completely free to use, and students benefit from an infinite amount of practice with questions that regenerate
• MathsBot - infitiely generated practice with answers, and no registration needed. Try the GCSE resources and the question generators
• Maths4Everyone - an incredible collection of practice questions, complete with full worked solutions. The review sheets and GCSE questions by topic are particularly useful.
• Sparx education - they have kindly made their virtual classroom free, so teachers can set tasks which are automatically marked and students can access videos.‍
• Mathster - another company who have made their platform free, with videos and an infinite number of practice questions that are automatically marked. Once the 1 month free trial is over, you can email Mathster to get it extended as long as needed

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Practice - GCSE only

We don’t know what will happen with this summer’s exams yet, but here are some resources specifically made for GCSE practice

• On Maths - online GCSE papers, type in your answer, and it marks it for you!
• Mr Barton Maths - my GCSE takeaway resources come with questions and worked solutions‍
• Julia Smith’s GCSE maths padlet - brilliant revision advice and links

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Videos and tutorials

If your students get stuck during their practice, then the following might help:

• Corbett Maths - clear, concise videos with comprehensive coverage of the entire Key Stage 3 and 4 maths curriculum
• Seneca - free online tutorials for age groups. All the maths content is here.‍
• Khan Academy - an abundance of videos from the US for all ages groups. All the maths content is here.

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Remote teaching

The thought of remote teaching via video link might well be daunting for some (it would be for me!). So, should you feel the desire (or need), then the following might be useful:

• Zoom - a video conferencing tool where you just send a link to all your students and they can hear you and see you and/or your screen. This is free to schools in these troubling times - read more here.
• ‍Google Classroom - there is a brilliant guide to get you started, and advice on distance learning in general here.
• Loom - this free screen recording software has also been made free due to the virus. More details here.

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I hope that is helpful. And remember, if we can help at all with Diagnostic Questions or Eedi then please email hello@eedi.co.uk

Thanks for reading, and stay safe.

Craig and the Eedi team