Padlets
Your learners only need a URL and a pincode to access Daily Maths. It works brilliantly on your interactive whiteboard, a laptop, tablet or phone.
The padlet content is engaging, quirky, relevant and pertinent to the maths topic and the qualification. It is built upon sound mathematical research taking influence from the Swan principles, spaced and interleaved practice, Ebbinghaus forgetting curve analysis, as well as drawing influence from Dylan Wiliam with the learner being the architect of their own learning. It draws upon Chinn with the emphasis upon finding an appropriate maths method to suit the learner.
Influenced by a prior 5Rs classroom based research trial, 5Rsonline was borne out of its abandonment due to the pandemic. Neither the primary nor secondary aims could be met which was disappointing. Within the trial the padlet was huge with 125 pieces of content – it was felt to be cumbersome and did not direct learners to specific work. However, its use had been found to engage students easily with over 12,000 hits in the research period. Teachers liked the routine of the 5Rs classroom approach. Most teachers on the trial said that they would continue with the delivery model.
The research behind The Focused 15, from the wonderful Emma Bell, highlighted the topics for GCSE that, if mastered, can give students useful maths skills for life, as well as enough content to pass their GCSE exam. 5Rsonline draws upon this research too.