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/
Erica’s having a complete stinker with this particularly long homework. She desperately needs help from your students to correct the homework and explain what she needs to do. This is designed for students to demonstrate understanding.
One of my Year 10s suggested doing something to do with ice cream cones, so here it is. A functional/real life question involving sectors of circles in a logo design and whether the design is affordable. Involves perimeter and area of sectors.
Four screens each with four questions that have the same answer but the question is missing information; can your class work out what information is missing? This is designed to create discussion (some questions have multiple answers possible) and I intend to use these as starters. Topics include ratio, probability, solving equations, indices, angles and many more.
I now teach enlargements using the vector method and decided to produce a worksheet to encourage this method, which involves fractional and negative scale factors.
The usual thing: answer the questions, reveal the punchline.
This gives inequalities and asks students to find the representation on the number lines. The letters are jumbled up to stop them guessing the answer.
Help Phineas and Ferb calculate the length of the tunnel they are digging under a mountain, and also what angle Dr Doofenshmirtz needs to aim his gun at to hit Agent P.
Answer the questions - if the answer is an even number colour in the question number in the grid; if the answer is odd or not a whole number then leave it blank. When they have finished they scan the QR code and if correct it will take them to the Depeche Mode video for 'Walking In My Shoes', for no other reason than I had already created the QR code.
This is designed to get students thinking rather than just blindly following a mathematical recipe. There a four sets of 4 problems which all have the same answer (given in the centre of the screen). Each question has a blank for the students to fill in and sometimes there is more than one answer for the blank. This particular one covers probability,fractions, ratio, angles in polygons, solving equations, sequences, area and other topics. I will be using these as starters to get students thinking. One error corrected in the answers! (I need to read the question.)
I've decided to do some maths stuff based upon US crime drama shows and this is the first based on differentiation, covering differentiation (including negative indices), gradients at certain points, turning points (maximum and minimum) and finally increasing/decreasing functions at certain points. The worksheets aren't massively necessary as it's been designed to work from the powerpoint but they are there to give you the option.
Find the answers, colour in the correct squares then scan to get Madonna’s ‘Substitute For Love’ (the best I could do). QR code generated using qrstuff.com.
My daughter loves these things and you can't move in my house for them them so I thought I&'d do a ratio activity involving them. It involves simplifying, sharing and finding value for money.
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 ratio, Pythagoras, time, fractions, probability, percentages and measures 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.
This takes you through basic indices then on to fractional and negative indices covering all the skills required allowing students to understand how they all link up to reach the most challenging question types.
Four "spiders" to practise bounds. Starting simple, moving on to rounding to the nearest centimetre then significant figures. This does nothing special but will hopefully make students think and encourage discussion about bounds.
Four sets of four problems where students have the answer but there are blanks in the questions which require filling in. This is designed to create discussion in class and hopefully provides natural differentiation (stretch the “top end” by finding the general solution where possible compared to finding a single solution). It focuses on the more “challenging” aspects of indices including negative and fractional. I will be using these as starters or plenaries as I believe they will develop deeper understanding of topics, but feel free to use them as you like.