I have recently become involved in creating DESMOS activities for my classes. They have worked so well and have given me great feedback that I now want to offer them to other maths teachers.
I have recently become involved in creating DESMOS activities for my classes. They have worked so well and have given me great feedback that I now want to offer them to other maths teachers.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving multiplying by multiples of 10
There are 24 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving in finding number bonds to 10.
There are 20 different questions A great activity for weaker students. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving rounding to significant figures.
There are 20 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
The activity also has a worksheet linked to the Bingo questions, with answers on separate slide.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…;.they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving percentage of a quantity.
There are 24 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving solving simple algebraic problems.
There are 20 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving Circle Geometry
There are 26 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
This DESMOS resource has 10 questions on fully expanding single brackets.
The resource will automatically mark the students’ work and the teacher will be able to see how the class is getting on with the activity in real time.
This a great resource for checking students’ understanding and correcting misconceptions.