Jonathan Hall

@studymaths.bsky.social

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Maths teacher. Creator of MathsBot.com.

An example of a "one-click" mixed exercise on average and range. 20 different randomly generated questions.
Four congruent triangles drawn on a square grind in various orientations. Above is the prompt "Can you always rotate from one triangle to another?"
A circle drawn on a square grid with the prompt "Estimate the area of this circle."
A right angled triangle and a triangle with an angle of 89 degree.
An example-problem pair taken from the MathsBot curriculum.
A screenshot of a 10 question mixed exercise on averages and range from the MathsBot curriculum.
A mixed exercise covering all 9 variation of basic trigonometry questions.
A right angled triangle with hypotenuse 14 m and short leg 6 m. The angle between the hypotenuse and other (unlabeled) short leg is x.
A screenshot of the one-mark wonder resource.
A screenshot of the MathsBot Primary menu.
4 potato smiley faces, each cut differently.
A maze made from banagram tiles with a Lego figure in the middle.
All the tiles in a bananagram set arranged as a bar chart.
An example-problem pair asking if 3 lengths form a triangle. Q1: Can you form a triangle with 2, 8 and 10 cm? Q2: Can you form a triangle with 5, 10 and 7 cm?
A diagram of a circle with a radius of 1. A right-angled triangle is drawn from the centre with the hypotenuse tangent to the circle. Above, a prompt says "What angles and lengths can you find?".
A 4 by 4 square drawn on a grid with the instructions "Draw another square with an area twice as large."
A full skip being replaced with an empty one.
A rectilinear hexagon with all the side labels blank - to be filled in by the teacher.
An L-shaped hexagon with 4 sides labelled. Next to it are 3 calculations which all give the correct area of the shape.
A screenshot of my example-problem pair tool, with a question on completing the square.
A photo of Helen’s new book on my kitchen table.
A screenshot of the GCSE menu on MathsBot.
A picture of a cuboid with blank square paper next to it where the net of the cuboid is to be drawn.
A slide saying "Draw a triangle in each cell...if you can." Underneath a two-way table with the headers "Scalene​, Isosceles​, Equilateral​" along the top and "Right-angled, Non Right-angled" down the side.
A slide saying "Fill the blanks with integers.​" Then underneath the following questions: 50 = 7² + ___​ 50 = ___² + 41​ 50 = 6² + ___​ 50 = ___² + 49​ 50 = ___² + 25​ 50 = 8² − ___​ 50 = ___² − 50​ 50 = ___² + 34​ 50 = 2² + ___​ 50 = ___² − 31​
Two examples of completing the square, one with numerical values and the other an algebraic expression.
A snippet of code from the mathsbot question generators.
A traditional bus stop division where the lines have been extended and a multiplication sign placed in the top-left.
My 4yo playing shut the box
9 QR codes, each linking to a revision grid of 12 questions roughly aimed at grades 1 to 9.
Solve these quadratic equations.​ (𝑥 − 4)(𝑥 + 5) = 0​ (𝑥 − 4)(𝑥 + 5) = 10​ (𝑥 − 4)(𝑥 + 5) = 22​ (𝑥 − 4)(𝑥 + 5) = 36​ What equation should come next?​
My 8yo attempting to flip two bottles at the same time.
A workshop slide on using variation to explore expanding binomials.
Miss Morris presenting her workshop on algebra tiles.
Two congruent triangles at 90 degrees to each other.
A slide saying "O and E represent odd or even numbers. Complete the tables." Below are two tables to record all the possible outcomes. Then below that a series of calculations where you need to decide if the result is odd or even.
A screenshot of a 12 question sample revision grid using the tool.
My 4 year old building patterns out of counters and lollipop sticks.
A blank grid split into 8 rectangles, with the headings: Factorised, Expanded and Completed Square form First root, Second root and y-intercept Turning point and sketch.
A picture of some of Don Steward's hand written tasks.
Two straight lines, one with two angles at a point, the other with three. Underneath are two empty bar models with 180° written in the top bar of each.
A spreadsheet table showing a potential order of learning the times tables.
A multiplication square with the 1, 2, 5 and 10 times table shaded purple. The remaining tiles have been shaded grey if they have a commutative twin, leaving 21 white squares remaining.
A slide showing different examples of making questions more engaging by re-wording the instructions for the task. For example, instead of "calculate the following", ask "which of these have the same answer?"
How less is more when is comes to planning and delivering lessons. "Blank is Best" is the idea that, instead of planning numerous examples, you use a single template slide where the content can be added live by the teacher during the lesson. This simple but powerful pedagogical approach can simultaneously transform your approach to responsive teaching while drastically reducing your planning time
16 different questions on linear graphs.
A tidied up version of the initial resource, set out in a neat table.
A grid of empty boxes with the headings: A is the point, B is the point,Midpoint of AB, Length of AB. Gradient of a parallel and perpendicular line. y-intercept, x intercept, equation of the line and sketch.
Two congruent triangles, arranged on a straight line so that the angle between their hypotenuses is a right angle.
A Strava screenshot of my run to Argos and back.
A screenshot of my Gattegno Tens Chart with 9 rows ranging from 10000 to 0.0001 down the left hand side.
A screenshot of 10 objectives selected from the "Powers and Roots" unit in MathsBot.
A black and white picture of Dienes blocks in various powers.
A formula triangle for the mean.
A screenshot of an error message saying "Don't be silly Nathan"
A question that reads: "Marcia wants to estimate the number of fish in her pond. One day she catches 170 fish. She puts a tag on each fish and then releases them. The next day Marcia catches 55 fish. 11 of these fish have a tag on them. Work out an estimate for the total number of fish in her pond." Underneath is a ratio table set up to solve the problem.
Another coaster made from 100 tiles, the primes numbers are a darker mosaic tile to the rest.