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.
You can you this in many ways:
Grade the work you are giving by difficulty. Indicate on each question what grade they are from green to black. Either tell the students to do all the greens first and then move on, or allow them to choose what colour to start on. Or go around the classroom indicating to each student what they have to start on.
Get students to write their own questions to set to other members of the class. Ask them to grade it from Green to black. This is good for assessing what they are comfortable at and what they think they are capable of.
The PPTX can be printed out onto A3 as a poster for the wall.
I sometimes need a harder than black and calling it double black seems to fit.
When time allows I print the questions (with their colour grade) on a sheet of A4 sticker labels. I then give each table a sheet which will have all the questions on. If your table has four students on it there will be a discussion if there are only three green questions as someone will have to do a blue.
This idea came from someone else who routinely ski route grades all their work and allows the learners to start at the level most appropriate to them. I had previously seen it presented as here are four questions on the board, now choose the question you want to do first.
Recently I have seen people (and now used it myself) where several questions are given and the students have to grade them and explain why they think one is easier than the others. This ties in with my Maths Mastery Kung Fu Panda (see other premium resource)
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Tony cycled 3 kilometres to town. He walked 200 metres along the street to a burger bar. He ordered a 250 gram burger and a 330 millilitres can of cola. The burger was excellent, it was 2.5 centimetres thick.
You read the students a story like above and then they write their own. It's very creative and makes great displays. Insist that use the specified measures.
There's loads of different versions of theis worksheet from all the different times I've used it. Pcik the one which suits your learners best.
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Quite a simple worksheet which was created to address particular misconceptions and common errors in algebraic simplifications.
Used as a starter assessment.
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The brief was "Teach 'Best Value for Money' at GCSE Foundation level to a Year 10 class of 25 students with 2 EAL students.
The main part of the lesson is the students completing 14 questions on Best Value. The questions have been very carefully selected to increase in difficulty. Everything else works around that. Some of the questions came from the Web, some from examination practice paper software and some I made up.
The Misleading Prices starter presents supermarket price labels with unusual offers on which prompts an interest at the start and provides some good starting discussion.
The Baked Beans plenary was made more visual by me having the actual tins in those sizes for the student to look at and pass around.
You need to read the lesson plan first and you'll see how it all fits together. It was used for a one hour lesson where I tried to exemplify everything I could about my style of teaching and my knowledge of how to show progress in a lesson.
The lesson plan had been scrutinized by a Maths HOD, a SENCO and a Headteacher who had given input for me to improve it before hand. It was designed to have minimal teacher talk and lots of the students working.
The lesson plan details all the prior knowledge needed and then everything I could think of to use in the next few lessons so it is a complete module of work for Best Value.
In hindsight after the event:
I should have had more picture questions prepared for the EAL students.
There should had been more teaching of the different methods at the start
This resource represents a huge investment of my time as I had a week to prepare and improve on it. You are getting an outstanding lesson resource which although you will need to adapt to your own lesson style I think you will have to do little to modify the resources as all the ideas are there. It is pretty comprehensive.
Print this out onto A4 cards. Give two cards to each table (choose size of number according to ability). Ask them to come up with reasons how we know that they are all divisible by three.
Hopefully they will get that it is the sum of digits which are multiples of three.
Show the PowerPoint to recap.
Back up with other exercises to reinforce this. Then evaluate/consolidate their knowledge by showing them new numbers and asking whether they are divisible by three or not.
If you want to run a school playing card club then it helps if you have the rules for different games ready for the children. I've copied these off the web but they are presented in a easy A4 format. Also I've adapted the rules to be understandable by children. Hence it's actually been quite a lot of work.
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All the keywords with explanations presented as a very useful overview of topic fact sheet.
As an intro to linear algebraic graphs I have put together all the keywords you need into a word search. After giving your students this ask them to write definitions of all the terms in the word search.
Alternatively give them the fact sheet. They can paste into their books and after highlighting can use it as a reference page whilst studying the topic.
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.
Priced separately you would pay £42 so this is a crazy bargain at £10.
Loads of resources for KS3 and Foundation GCSE and few for Higher GCSE.
Several activities for developing Maths Mastery and some investigation or game type activities. If you like please leave a review and then also check out my other resources.
