I have been a teacher for over 20 years - all the stuff I upload has been tried and tested in my classroom. I don't mind a discussion on Twitter too where I also share new resources. I now have a personal website: https://andylutwyche.com/
I have been a teacher for over 20 years - all the stuff I upload has been tried and tested in my classroom. I don't mind a discussion on Twitter too where I also share new resources. I now have a personal website: https://andylutwyche.com/
Clive is having a go at quadratics questions now; these involve expanding two brackets, plotting graphs, factorising and solving on test 1 before moving on to more solving, using the roots, completing the square and using the quadratic formula. Clive is prone to making mistakes so your class has to spot these and explain what his mistakes are so that he learns from them.
This worksheet is designed to practise naming linear graphs from the landscape of a new computer game. This could be extended to drawing their own plus parabolas, depending on the ability of the class.
This idea is from Craig Barton and is an excellent one (check them out his at website); essentially it is four questions based on the same information. There are four here which use volume, surface area, expressions, Pythagoras, trigonometry and angles in parallel lines as well as other topics. This really should create discussion and a deeper understanding of the topics covered on top of ensuring that students actually read the question. I hope these are worthy! I will be using these as starters or plenaries.
I’m teaching Further Maths Level 2 for the first time in a few years so thought I would produce some resources for it of which this is one. Set up and solve equations using your knowledge of multiplying matrices basically. I am particularly proud of the joke!!!
This is an activity where you have to calculate missing sides and angles for computer software designers, based upon Link's Crossbow Training on the Wii! There is an extension where they have to produce general formulae where there are different ways of calculating the same thing depending on what you are given.
Using the fighting game of Tekken can you help the programmers calculate the missing angles in each move? This is designed to be a starter of an angles lesson, not a challenge. I have done a Smart Board version to save on printing.
I wanted to give a real life concept for inequalities so came up with this. When my classes did it some used the number line and some didn't; I left it up to them.
A simple ordering task with numbers in the ten thousands using the average attendances in the PL from 2013-14. Very simple, no bells or whistles, just a task.
Answer the questions on surface area of cubes and cuboids and reveal the punchline to a fish joke. These work well in class, online or as a homework and offer some reassurance as students find their answers in the table allowing the teacher to help those who really need it.
No real imagination here, just a quick worksheet to stop the students bisecting a horizontal or vertical and bisecting a right angle. Don't expect anything fancy people...
Another fish related effort after finding the missing angles using circle theorems. Ideal for online lessons and in-person ones too; students like the cheesy jokes despite their protestations to the contrary.
I did a worksheet on the quadratic formula where questions build up from entering values into the formula to working in reverse from formula to original quadratic equation and I was looking at some completing the square questions and thought I could do the same with this. I have put 10 increasingly challenging questions initially with blanks to fill in before moving on to a “Challenge” section where the coefficient of x squared is not 1.
These are supposed to prevent students using their calculators to do these entirely as they ask for the solution to be in a form that the calculator won’t give exactly. The jokes are predictably cheesy and they get increasingly difficult as you go through them.
I’ve noticed that standard form questions are being set where the powers are too large for calculator use so I did a codebreaker like it.
The usual stuff: answer the questions, reveal the punchline.
More questions are turning up with massive numbers given as a product of prime factors and students being asked to find the HCF or LCM, so therefore I did a codebreaker for it.
The usual stuff: maths, punchline, hahaha.