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/
Five HCF and LCM functional questions using the characters from Phineas and Ferb. All put together in a PowerPoint and including answers. Now with a link to the Phineas and Ferb theme tune! Typos corrected.
This is a true or false activity designed to create discussion about stem-and-leaf diagrams. including using them to find the mode, median and IQR. These work well online but also in the classroom.
This involves simplifying surds, expanding two brackets with surds and rationalising the denominator. Some of the" answers" are not fully simplified to encourage students not to use a calculator more than absolutely necessary. This sheet is designed to encourage method/workings and my “possible workings” are just a guide, not a manual!
Six questions based around finding the area of a triangle using trigonometry. The answers are on the sheet which allows students to work with confidence whilst the teacher can help those who require it.
Three sheets: one on rounding to 1,10,100, one on rounding to decimal places and one on rounding to significant figures. Answers are on the sheet but there are more answers than questions meaning that guessing less of an option and students can get on in the knowledge that their answer should be on the sheet somewhere. These have been useful in online lessons as well as “normal” lessons.
Three sets (based around number properties), ten statements and students need to work out if those statements are true or false. This involves union, intersection, subsets and probability involving sets. I have found that these encourage discussion in class.
Five “spiders” with six (I know…) questions on each covering length, capacity and mass. The final two have mixed questions but they start at “12 o’clock” and work clockwise in difficulty… I have also left some specific units required out to allow students to choose and you, as the teacher, to add extra tasks of find as many possible answers etc.
This is an activity based on the daytime quiz show “Impossible” where a question is asked and three options given: one correct, one incorrect but could be correct if the question was slightly different (partial answer), and one that is impossible (cannot be the answer). This is designed to be a discussion/reasoning activity where students find the correct answer then discuss why the other two options are impossible or incomplete. Topics include HCF, fractions, percentages, bounds, standard form, ratio, proportion, indices.
Find the equation of the tangent to a curve at a given point and reveal the joke (I apologise, I made it up at about 3am). Something different in an A Level class or a challenge in an IGCSE class…
This is aimed at AQA Further Maths Level 2 students but could be used in early A level lessons as something a bit different. Answer the questions, reveal the joke.
This is designed to be non-calculator and was written with the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate in mind, but could also be used for GCSE. It involves simplifying, expanding brackets and rationalising the denominator. The punchline is revealed upon answering all the questions.
Having been over a load of exam papers recently I decided to put together some statements regarding number (odd, even, primes), use of the identity sign, graphs, ratio; there are seven slides in total (plus answers) with increasingly difficult statements to cater for a whole class. The idea is to generate discussion and mathematical thinking, probably at the start of a lesson but use it when you like (if at all).
There are twelve transformations here, all of which have more than one solution; this asks students to find as many solutions that work, including reflections, translations, rotations and enlargements with negative scale factors. I did this with a class and offered rewards for any solutions I hadn’t listed which seemed to motivate them even more! Solutions are on a separate slide to enable printing.
More fish jokes having simplified some algebraic expressions; The first one is using just one variable, the second uses two. These offer incentive to complete the sheets (to find the joke) beyond just finishing and whilst the students often groan at the jokes they secretly love them (I have convinced myself).
Various calculations involving fractions, decimals and percentages; students need to change an element of each to meet the requirements listed. Many of the answers can be achieved in numerous ways so this should create discussion and challenge. Answer slide that wasn’t complete is now complete…
Ultimately this is a substitution exercise that reveals a joke. These seem popular with students who like getting the joke first and can be used in most classroom/homework situations. This involves mainly quadratic curves but also a couple of cubics and a reciprocal.
Four slides each containing four questions; the answer to each question is the same (and in the middle of the slide) but parts of the question are missing. Students need to find the missing values in the question so that they can get the answer stated. Some questions have single answers, others have multiple answers (I have tried to give algebraic answers where I can) and asking students to generalise answers could be an extension. These have proven popular in class and lead to good reasoning discussions.
