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1. Introducing DrFrostMaths to your department jamie@drfrostmaths.com www.drfrostmaths.com@DrFrostMaths Last modified: 16th June 2019

2. What is DrFrostMaths? A diverse set of teaching resources including downloadable teaching slides/worksheets for KS3-5, teaching videos and an online platform for students to practise questions and teachers to set work.

3. Who runs it? Dr Jamie Frost has been a teacher at Tiffin school for 7 years. He was a Gold winner at the National Teaching Awards in Nov 2018, appearing on ‘Britain’s Classroom Heroes’ on BBC2. He was previously a PhD student at Oxford University (where he won a University Teaching Excellence Prize) and used to code trading algorithms for an investment bank. The question database is managed by Mr Dupont-Panon, a full time teacher.

4. Site Stats “Page views” are the number of times a webpage has been loaded. * projected Cumulative Resource Downloads: (from DFM’s resources section) Cumulative Questions Answered: (on online platform) Page views are now over 5 million a month. Feb 18: 1.5 million Feb 18: 10.3 million Jun 19: 4.2 million Jun 19: 25.6 million

5. 4253 schools have logged in to DrFrostMaths just since Sept 2018.

6. (As of 1st May 2019) Cost for secondary schools (typical cost for secondaries incl VAT) £1440/yr £750/yr Free £450/yr Questions from major exam boards (Edexcel, OCR, …)        GDPR Compliant  Question differentiation made explicit, covering fully ability range     Teaching Videos      KS5 questions    Automatically detects algebraically equivalent answers.     Build worksheets        Export a variety of reports   Times tables practice    Interactive whole-class game for mobile/tablet devices     Manages written feedback between student and teacher     Pre-written mini-assessments on all curriculum topics.     Models student knowledge from perspective of combining skills within a question.    

7. What can DFM do? (The presenting teacher may wish to exit the slides now and give a demo, but the next few slides outline some of the main functionality available)

8. #1 :: Browse questions A gigantic database of 34,000 questions, most of which are past paper questions from Edexcel, OCR, AQA, KS2/3 SATs and UKMT. Can be filtered by topic, difficulty, board and keyword.

9. #1 :: Browse questions A variety of answer inputs, including algebraic, tables, vectors, matrices, ratio, solutions to simultaneous equations, and drawing of lines, polygons and charts.

10. #2 :: Create assessments and worksheets Create worksheets/tests from scratch or make variants of existing past papers. Output to Microsoft Word, with the mark scheme included!

11. #2 :: Create assessments and worksheets The worksheets/assessments can be organised into directories, with customisable access settings for teachers and students.

12. #2 :: Create assessments and worksheets You can use existing Edexcel/OCR/AQA/PMC/SATs papers to create modified worksheets, e.g. abridged GCSE papers for homework.

13. #3 :: Set Homework/Assessments You can either set pre-selected questions (e.g. a past paper or your own worksheet), or set an automated homework. These tailor questions for each student based on their prior experience and performance on a topic, and the difficulty level can go up and down during a homework. You can schedule homeworks for a future time. You can filter questions to a particular exam board.

14. #3 :: Set Homework/Assessments Teaching videos load in-page for any topics contained with the current question.

15. #3 :: Set Homework/Assessments The system maintains the student’s ‘skill level’ for each topic, and see their change in points after each question. They also earn trophies for certain achievements.

16. #4 :: Monitoring Performance You can view data by class/group/individual, by task, and by topic. These can all be exported to Excel.

17. #4 :: Monitoring Performance

18. #4 :: Monitoring Performance For homework involving multiple topics, you can see a breakdown on performance by topic.

19. #5 :: Teaching videos Teaching videos on (nearly) every KS2/3/4 topic, with KS5 videos upcoming. These can also be viewed in-page when students are stuck on a question. Handy links for students to quickly practise questions on this topic.

20. #6 :: The Live! game Demo video with my Year 7 class: If this video doesn’t load below, go to: https://youtu.be/ZGVoF97xo1o

21. #7 :: Timestable/Divide tables Practice Students can practise either individual times/divide tables, or a mixture against the clock. This data can be monitored by teachers.

22. #8 :: Topic Tests • Short 8 questions mini-tests, mostly consisting of past paper questions. • Students get a ‘Topic Medal’ if they pass (6+ out of 8) • For KS3, 4 and 5.

23. #9 :: The Home Dashboard Seen when you log in, for both students and teachers. Summary of school activity over the last week. Newsfeed of recent activity.

24. #9 :: The Home Dashboard

25. #9 :: The Home Dashboard There are interactive training modules for every piece of functionality on the site, guiding teachers through step by step.

26. 10 DFM Resources Worth Knowing About The site’s downloadable resources can be found under the ‘Resources’ tab on the top menu. Here’s some of the highlight you may not know about…

27. 10 DFM resources worth knowing about All within the ‘Resources’ menu… “Full Coverage” GCSE/A Level revision worksheets Aims to have an example of each type of question seen within a particular topic, with a brief ‘categorisation’ of each. Casio ClassWiz Instructional PowerPoint Clickable buttons and full explanation of each of the modes.

28. 10 DFM resources worth knowing about All within the ‘Resources’ menu… A Level PowerPoints For the whole of the main A Level (Edexcel) and for CP1, CP2, FS1 and FM1 in Further Maths. “Just For Your Interest” Posters Mostly for A Level. Looks at the background behind questions students might ponder.

29. 10 DFM resources worth knowing about All within the ‘Resources’ menu… UKMT Database (No login needed). Database of UKMT problems with filters for topic, difficulty and by keyword. Also available for Primary Maths Challenge. “Teaching Methods I Don’t Like” Pedagogical exploration of teaching methods I’m not fond of (some more controversial than others!)

30. 10 DFM resources worth knowing about All within the ‘Resources’ menu… Riemann Zeta Club resources Resources used for maths enrichment club for Lower Sixth. Maths A Level Revision Advice Slides for a talk I regularly give at the ‘Maths In Action’ events in London.

31. 10 DFM resources worth knowing about Videos Covers (almost) all KS3-4 topics. KS5 coming next academic year.

32. 10 DFM resources worth knowing about Teaching ideas page https://youtu.be/XYyq9NNka5w

33. Practical Ways to Use DFM in Your Department

34. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #1 The browsable database of questions for teachers can be filtered by exam board, topic and difficulty. I regularly use within lessons if I want to spontaneously find a further exam example to test whole-class understanding before the main exercise.

35. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #2 Our department has pretty much completely switched to producing half-termly assessments on DFM. This outputs to Word for further editing. Advantages: Question DB spans multiple exam boards. For exam questions, full mark scheme included. Disadvantage: Multi-part questions more difficult.

36. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #3 We appoint Maths Prefects from the Sixth Form (two per Yr 7, 8, 9 form group) who organise one-to-one or small group sessions at lunchtime. They typically use the slides from the Resources section of DFM.

37. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #4 Year 11 Tiffin teachers often set a past paper on the platform (or abridged past paper) per week as the class’ homework. You can get a topic performance summary per homework. In addition, since exported reports can make calculations limited to questions from a particular exam board, this gives detailed insight into what topics to work on closer to exam time. I know we need to work on the quadratic formula and probability tree questions!

38. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #5 For intervention groups. It’s possible for students to be in more than one class, allowing departmental leaders to monitor and set work to specific groups of students.

39. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #6 For absent students Students who have missed school can see an instructional video with examples that explains the topic, and can test their knowledge immediately after.

40. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #7 Data Analysis Can generate points for topic performance, assessments/homeworks, usage within a time period…

41. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #8 For independent practice There’s a huge emphasis on the platform on students practising independently. They receive points and trophies with leaderboards to galvanise them. They can monitor their own progress and get suggestions for what topics to work on.

42. Practical ways to use DFM in your department Some more amusing trophies they can earn:

43. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #9 School competitions It’s possible to create custom leaderboard pages (the URL which you can distribute, but requires login) for a given date range and a given year group or class (or whole school).

44. Practical ways to use DFM in your department Shown in Chetwynde School’s main school assembly earlier this year…

45. Practical ways to use DFM in your department #10 • Enrichment. What Tiffin School does: • Set students full or abridged Maths Challenge papers. • Developed culture of students practising UKMT materials independently on the site. • The fact UKMT questions are categorised in same topic structure as past paper exam questions allows easier integration with main curriculum topics. Tiffin students have answered 690,000 UKMT questions on the DFM platform in the last 3 years.

46. Future Plans • Cater for the rapidly growing user-base. • Finish KS3/4 videos. • GCSE Computer Science platform. • KS5 videos (next academic year). • More provision for KS2. • Work with Multi-Academy Trusts, further developing the ‘trust administrator’ accounts. • Finish replacing older KS3/4 slides, in particular to have no slides with year-group specific “Year X” on them. • Follow up to “Live!” game (e.g. “Hole in the Wall” type whole-class game where students have to move their ‘avatar’ to answer questions correctly).