An experienced Primary & Secondary Maths teacher. Enjoying promoting and sharing my resources on TES. I embed problem solving, Maths Mastery and Magenta Principles into my lessons. I love fun and interactive elements which help engagement as long as challenge and assessment is built into this. Please do leave reviews if you find my resources useful. Thank you.
An experienced Primary & Secondary Maths teacher. Enjoying promoting and sharing my resources on TES. I embed problem solving, Maths Mastery and Magenta Principles into my lessons. I love fun and interactive elements which help engagement as long as challenge and assessment is built into this. Please do leave reviews if you find my resources useful. Thank you.
Activity designed to give further practice (Maths Mastery) of line of best fit on scatter graphs after initial teaching and practice. Particularly to reinforce what happens when there is no correlation.
Twenty seven slides on the PowerPoint. Each slide shows a scatter graph which either has correlation or hasn't. If it has correlation then a line of best fit can be drawn and the degree or strength of the correlation can be suggested (Note that at this level it is a subjective judgement so answers may vary).
The graphs are simply ones found using a internet image search, but I've done the work for you to save you the time.
There is a matching PowerPoint which has my suggested solutions on.
I rearranged the order of the slides on the PowerPoint on the Print version (attached) and then printed out pages 1-6, then 7-12, and so on so that six graphs were on each sheet of A4 (using the handout feature of PowerPoint). This means that you now have four worksheets which are all slightly different so that every student on your tables of four has a different set of questions - hence less copying. The answers to the four sheets I made are attached as a PDF.
This is a good activity which did meet the objective of reinforcing the LOBF skills.
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This idea came from "andorian" who has a worksheet to prompt discussion. I then recorded the students ideas on this PowerPoint. Afterwards they made a "This is now a phone free school" poster.
It's not that good a resource and its certainly not worth putting a price on it but it may help you and make things a bit easier for your lesson. Hope it helps
Just a load of keywords for posters and displays. There's a simple short "Circus" type activity task as well (I have other Circus activities listed).
The graded keywords may help you as I've tried to differentiate them.
Any of these words can be printed out and laminated on A5 size cards for the "SNATCH MATCH" game. This is where the words are blu tacked to the wall and students stand a metre away. Teacher (or a TA or competent pupil) asks questions where the answer is one of the snatch match cards. The students are usual;ly in two teams facing the wall. Two students at a time have the opportunity to snatch the right card. Loads of fun!
Pretty simple resource but might be just what you need... 7 questions - one per slide - involving rectangle, lengths, areas and perimeters which lend themselves to be solved using algebra. Enjoy
Objective: Know common equivalents between Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.
10 simple questions which they should know (rather than have to work out).
10 Questions on a PowerPoint. Ready to show. Just give the class a small slip of paper. Ask them to write down 1 to 10 and then show them the questions. Once done swap the papers and then continue through showing the answers - asking the students to share how they did it or knew it.
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It's always worth setting your expectations of what the students should have. Obviously you could tweak these for your own learners but at least you've got a starting point here. It's a list of Essential maths equipment as a poster and then a check list (which doesn't quite match but would be easily amended to use with your form class.
You may wish to adjust the poster so it says "essential" then "desirable" depending on your learners.
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If you like this then please check out my many other Maths activities listed on my TES Resources shop and pages including many Premium resources which may be able to save you lots of time and give you some useful ideas. If you find this helpful then please do leave a constructive review so that others can benefit from your experience. Thank you.
See the PNG file first for the original question....
You are given two numbers on a number line. You know that that there are two numbers between them. The gaps between the four numbers are all equal. Find the missing numbers.
You can do lots of practice on this together as a class. The worksheet attached just allows them to get on with something on their own.
You can use the generator Excel file to create more sheets.
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All you would need for a probability lesson on coins. Some of these activities have been done as part of a circus of many activities where the students move around every 10 minutes or so however you can certainly build a lesson around these activities.
Many more Circus Probability activities are listed on my TES Resource pages.
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A lesson built around the objective: Develop further understanding leading to mastery of scatter graphs.
The idea is that after a starter exercise the class move around in tables of four attempting each of the circus activities. Then they are given a written exercise to back it up and then a whole class plenary activity. See the attached lesson plan.
The good points noted by an observer of this lesson were:
*Collaborative learning in mixed ability groups
*Pupils could explain the decisions they made
*Use of subject specific vocabulary buy the pupils
*Opportunities for Mastery
*Use of Magenta Principle - Arrange
*Encourage pupils to challenge answers.
Not all the resources listed in the plan are located here. Some come from other TES contributors, but as long as you get a collection of activities which each take about the same duration you can set up a good Circus of activities.
Starter comes from Scatter Graph Matching Cards by "john_speight"
The "Six Cards Discussion" is the attached PPT. This is excellent for prompting discussion. Some of the slides are copied from some other Contributors resources.
The True/False is my TES free resource "11307990". This is the activity which has the most discussion
The Correlation match posters come from Scatter graphs and best-fit lines by "frickard". This was quite short so needs extra added otherwise this group finishes too quickly.
The draw LOBF worksheet is one part of Scatter diagrams / scatter graphs by "jsteingold"
The L7 & L6 questions are some good scatter questions from KS3 Testbase.
The written questions are for sale as a Premium resource from my TES shop. It is simply a list of 14 questions laid out on a sheet of A4 stickers so that students can choose which question to answer.
The plenary is just a series of knowledge recall questions on a PowerPoint to do as a class Q&A.
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A list of points to reinforce with your students to improve the presentation in their Mathematics exercise books.
If students know what working is needed and why it is important to show it in their exercise books, they are more willing to show the necessary working.
If students know what the expectations are in terms of presentation, layout and attention to detail, they are more likely to take a pride in their exercise books.
This is based on posters and book labels seen in several schools. I have amended to fit my learners and I've uploaded it as a MS Word file so that you can tailor it for your learners.
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Two worksheets (One with more thoughtful harder questions on it).
One SMART Notebook to help introduce and explain the activity.
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This is simply four basic expectations which was used in a school in a Behaviour for Learning Focus week. I adapted them lightly for my Maths Lessons and I found them very useful to refer in lessons.
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This is pretty simple (hence it's free) as all it is 4 worksheets for the students to use...
Give each pair worksheet 1. Each player in turn rolls the dice, records the score and then adds up their running total.
Once you've got a winner then let them play game two where it is done with two dice... and so on
All the worksheet does is provide a template for them to write into.
You could adapt it by using dice with more than six sides - go look in you Maths Resource cupboard and see what's in there! ... I found some 10, 12 and 20 sided dice.
"The three ways to estimate probability are" worksheet first describes the three ways to estimate probability an d then asks 20 questions where the students have to identify the best way to estimate the probability.
Two versions of the WS available - one is better if you don't like the students copying out and prefer them to stick in sheets.
