Mr Harris Maths School

09/01/2022

Breaking News

From this week Mr Harris is joining forces with the £2 Tuition Hub https://www.facebook.com/groups/231068348487968 to provide Secondary Maths after school or home school lessons.

This week there are two free taster lessons which are free, then after this, if the students wish there will be 5 weeks of weekly lessons for the cost of £10 for the 5. All of these lessons take place on zoom and students can either join them live or download them afterward to do them in their own time.

The two sessions are as follows:

Monday - 5pm KS3 (Years 7-9 Although Year 6s may still be able to access this)

Thinking Mathematically - ‘When are we ever gonna need this in life’ and other questions
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WL01wqpsQ26wFMLSQ9MncQ

Mr Harris will teach a range of Secondary maths through problems, investigations and teach how to break problems down. Along the way Mr Harris will cover the Maths skills needed and help with any misconceptions.

Tuesday 4pm KS4 GCSE (Higher Tier) - Yrs 9-11 (& Resit)

Letters to Pascal: making sense of GCSE Algebra
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DfRC4DppTRubu3-q1gPGHg

Mr Harris will take on the huge area of Algebra and attempt to make it more accessible, more understandable and more useful.

Please click the links to sign up, visit the group to find out more about what they offfer and it would be great to see some of you there. If not, I plan to also release some free Youtube content this year also, so let me know what things you'd like to see videos about. Feel free to ask questions in the comments to this post.

Also - SHARE this post as much as you wish. Sharing is caring, which I believe must be true becuase it rhymes and if it rhymes I think it is undisputable

Letters to Pascal: making sense of GCSE Algebra With 17 years of teaching Secondary school maths and 39 years of being slightly odd, Mr Harris brings with him a wealth of knowledge, a sense of fun, some terrible Dad jokes and a creative and fun approach to Maths. If you have never had the Mr Harris....

24/12/2021

Wishing everyone who has liked this page, watched any of my videos or for whom we become a part of your future a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

In 2022 I hope to record some new series helping students in both primary and secondary. I'll post more in the new year.

12/09/2021

Two announcements.

1. I am hoping to record some videos in the next month or so to help with children who are back to school either live or with interactive elements but would love to have comments as to what topic your kids are struggling with (and year group)

2. I have been grinding my teeth recently (In a fun way) seeing basic numeracy questions appearing on Facebook with hundreds of thousands of adults arguing about the answers and getting them wrong. Purely for my own sanity 10 - 10 x 10 + 10 is equal to -80. Following order of operations correctly, it becomes 10 - 100 + 10 which is then -90 + 10 which equals -80. If it is confusing to your or your children that is absolutely fine, I even do some videos on order of operations. I will definitely do another, but it would really help us maths teachers if you can support all students learning this 🙂

08/04/2021

Good morning all, I know I have been awfully quiet since we all returned to the classroom and I apologise. In between teaching and my beautiful baby metamorphosising into a cheeky toddler all my time has been devoted to launching my first ever board game online.

I hope you don't mind me sharing it here as lots of you have shown interest over the year or so we have been doing online Maths.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/invinciblegames/scrumpy-card-cider?ref=ixim8s

Once it is all over I will be back, I promise. With some more Numberside, some online primary lessons and some secondary school support. It won't be as regular as when we were locked down but I look forward to continuing to provide some maths learning.

Scrumpy: Card Cider is an innovative deck manipulation game for 1-4 players where players compete to earn prestige by making cider.

08/02/2021

Thank you to everyone who has supported Mr Harris Maths school this term and gotten benefit from the lessons. Mr Harris will be back with more live lessons at all age groups after Half term in three weeks time.

See you soon :)

05/02/2021

The final week of Deja-Viewing will have KS3 asking why are we so mean? 'Meanwhile' averages of a different sort are used in the GCSE lesson as Midpoints plot the Frequency Polygons.

https://youtu.be/-mVQTf7Gln4

https://youtu.be/hHYw7g4K-hw

How can you graphically represent continuous data? When armed with a humble grouped frequency table, how can you turn it into a bar chart or even frequency p...

04/02/2021

On a day in History, it was hot & sunny and Mr Harris was pre-baby. But he was still mad fun. Why not indulge yourself in episode 2 of Numberside and all it has to offer KS1.

https://youtu.be/YmR9kmmyboM

https://youtu.be/YcBb3NqvfUE

Follow that up with a dose of Mr Harry-s Potter and his wizarding Mathematics. Bound to be great fun, even if it is your second time around

Mr Harris isn't around to teach this lesson, so he has asked a very good friend to step in and teach Maths in the only way he knows how... using the Hogwarts...

03/02/2021

Good day to you all in Secondary School? How the devil are you?

I miss you all and wish I could be face to face with each and every one of you?

Todays lessons has KS3 learning about Percentage Change and GCSE students learning to work with Algebraic Fractions.

https://youtu.be/6-FBfuKN3ZE

https://youtu.be/EKGRcnHI-30

Tell me, what did you learn for the first time today? Tell me an interesting fact you have learnt in 2021 that you didnt know, can anyone tell me something I didnt know?

How can we increase and amount or decrease an amount by a given percentage? How does interest work in banks? How does a discount card work in the sales? Watc...

02/02/2021

Good morning all. Today we go back to the start with the very first Numberside lesson and an early Tesselation lesson which was a lot of fun to make:

https://youtu.be/csPN6C_Wa7I

https://youtu.be/GA2S8iY_HgU

Let me know if you watched them? What bits did you enjoy? Where are you based? What year are you in?

This is the first-ever visit to Numberside, the UK's first ever Maths town. Construction is still taking place, and you need to help us with a variety of Mat...

01/02/2021

This week's channel offerings have been inspired by Sky channel Dave. Although I'd love the time to make fresh videos every week, for reasons I've already outlined, I cannot afford the time as well as running two businesses and my teaching load which this week has a lot of assessments to mark so this week is repeat week.

Each day I will post the links to two of my classic videos from the channel from the last year and I hope to encourage those who have seen them before to watch again and complete the worksheets as revision, and for those who missed them or weren't old enough first time around, then hopefully, it will feel like a brand new video with a slightly younger-looking Mr Harris.

28/01/2021

Due to a class with school learning, the KS2 lesson will be at 2pm

See you there

Robots have to be programmed, we need to know which instructions to use. In this lesson we programme our robot to be able to move around a maze. What a-maze-...