Pupils are asked to label a circle with compass directions and angles. The trick is that the circle is already labelled: with months and times [in hours (12 and 24) and minutes]. All jolly confusing... until they stop to process, sort and think! The dice at the edges add potential for an extra question around how to randomly choose a time/angle for something! There is a second circle with weeks, suits of cards, letters of the alphabet and two marathons. More confusion! More thought. Where will your pupils take you with them...

Four pics one word Bedford vocabulary

The people running Bedford bridges mini-marathon in England, UK want to extend the number of bridges it crosses. Bedford, England has a great many bridges. Can you find a route that crosses each bridge only once?

Place Bearing Point on ground and calibrate to magnetic north using compass/GPS. Pupil stands on Bearing Point with trundle wheel. Giant scale map-making/diagram-drawing begins. Corners/Vertices can be marked using cones. Bearing point can be lifted and replaced with cone at each vertex to aid taking further bearings. £4.50 IKEA Mat: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40239429/ Chalk pen: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pens+chalkérh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apens+chalk [might work with Tippex pen]

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Quiz JFK Mrs Brown Gordon Brown Werner Von Brown William Jefferson Clinton Ted Kennedy Jenna Bush Railways Dr Beeching Childcare John Masefeild C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Aldous Huxley Randall Hopkirk Deceased Tom Baker David Tennant Patrick Troughton Dalek James Bond Harry Potter Hermione Granger Bedford Bedfordshire Mine Mines Mining H. G. Wells Back to the Future Marty McFly Terminator John Connor Susan Jenny King Arthur Amy Pond Riversong Amelia Unchained Melody Unearthly Child

Copyright-free cartoon animal images. Source: http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/cute-cartoon-animals-set-free-vectors/

From days at Primary; animated & adjusted to work for -ve powers of 10 as well as +ve. Kibel [pp34-40 Miles T.R., Miles E. (2004)Dyslexia é mathematics] has +ve story to tell about Dienes blocks. Worth remembering that their use can be scaled up é down. Hence BETTER version will be made by someone with time é 3D ICT kit. It’ll ZOOM in é out to enable pupils to view (é correctly name - for US é Brit purposes!) numbers as big as a Googol é as small as... It'll use techniques like those in these slides; but combined with ZOOMING as seen in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Tym_6YLUI

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Quadratic Linear Equation Inequality

James Bond Skyfall 007 Transformations Revision Starter Plenary Main Activity

The United +Kingdom+ is a constitutional monarchy, so resources around the Diamond Jubilee are useful. Time: aligning 60 years' worth of facts in 60 minutes or 60 seconds! Simply colour in 25 years (silver Jubilee), 50 years (Golden Jubilee) and 60 years (Diamond Jubilee). Fractions: colour & discuss the first quarter of HM QE II's reign, the second quarter, or... maybe thirds, or twelfths, or... you get the idea.