A Studio Ghibli themed presentation carefully designed for students to discover what effect an x-squared coefficient has when double-brackets are expanded, and hence figure out how to factorise such quadratics for themselves.
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A worksheet designed to be made into a colourful laminate that demonstrates where thinking about algebraic expansion and factorisation may be useful in real-life situations. Followed by a PowerPoint full of questions of with an increasing level of challenge.
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An interactive offline website with 27 sets of 3-differentiated-question problem-solving starters. There is an in-built reward system where achievements are unlocked for entering the correct solution to each question. "Green" questions are designed to be accessible to all ability groups, but still require some resilience and problem-solving techniques. Yellow questions provide greater challenge and red questions can be exceptionally challenging. Unzip everything into a folder and run BrainBoost.html. Optimised for Google Chrome. Please contact me with any technical queries.
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A quick-fire browser-based mental maths game where the answer is always 7, 8 or 9. You have 78.9 seconds to answer as many questions as possible, make sure you use your keyboard keys 7, 8 & 9 for maximum speed. A highly addictive game with an in-built leaderboard. Great on an interactive whiteboard in the classroom or for all students in the computer room. Should be compatible with all browsers except Firefox. Playable on tablets and phones although the leaderboard only functions on PCs. Please contact me with any technical queries.
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8 challenging differentiation questions designed to encourage critical thinking about differentiation, turning points and the second derivative.
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A highly-challenging space-themed worksheet requiring C1 coordinate geometry and C2 differentiation. GeoGebra files that were used to create the questions are also included for teacher reference.
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A challenging integration worksheet designed to be printed as a colourful laminate. The GeoGebra file used to create this resource is also included.
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A challenging resource that requires students to construct and solve equations and formulae based on "real-life" situations (rugby, unicorns, Minecraft & phones). Designed to be made into a colourful two-sided laminate.
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A professionally-designed retro maths puzzle RPG with hours of gameplay and hundreds of puzzles. Play as Mystery, lost in a strange fantasy world full of brain-boggling puzzles. She gets EXP points for solving mathematical problems, allowing her to level up and explore the huge interactive world. Puzzles range from basic to extremely challenging, a pen and paper is almost certainly required to solve them! The game has music and sound effects. Everything is controlled using the ARROW KEYS, ENTER/SPACE & ESCAPE keys.
This game does not need to be installed so you can extract the folder to a shared drive on the school system and use the "Save Location" file to point to the student drive. This means students can play their own unique game from any computer in school while saving their progress at any time. Enter your school's name into the "School Name" file for a hidden "Easter egg" within the game.
Please contact me with any technical queries. If you use this game for multiple classes in your school an extra donation would be appreciated. This game took a LONG time to create!
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The most interesting resource here is my idea for a FLEXIBLE revision timetable that worked very well with my daughter and was later loved by many of my students.
The most important rule is: You don't fill anything out in advance.
Let's say on Monday you really feel like doing some maths (obviously) and also your French teacher has set you a revision task. So you spend the evening studying maths and French. I usually advise between 30 mins and an hour on each subject depending on the strength of the student, so a total of 1-2 hours per evening. After studying, you fill out the Monday slot with what you actually did e.g. Maths: Trigonometry, French: Shopping vocab, and, most importantly, you cross off an "M" and an "F" from the subject grid at the end.
This is repeated all week, but you're only allowed to study subjects that you haven't crossed off. By the weekend you're left to study the final remaining two subjects, and this ensures that you spend a fair amount of time on every subject without forcing you to do a specific one each day. This also leaves Sunday free to either relax or to catch up with any subjects you missed during the week for whatever reason.
The subject grid can be modified to include multiple squares for more important or weaker subjects. For example in the attached version English is Poi's second language so we assigned three out of the twelve slots.
Also included:
π An aesthetically-designed set of timetables for a biweekly teacher's timetable.
π A simple Parents' Evening timetable to put outside the room for parents to refer to.
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All resources will need to be adapted for your own classes. This resource includes:
π A behaviour contract.
π A colourful poster of student birthdays.
π A detention reflection sheet.
π A list of expectations for students to categorise in a two-way table of what they expect and don't expect of me, and what I expect and don't expect of them.
π A sheet for students to provide feedback on the lesson.
π An aesthetic seating plan PowerPoint.
π A sheet for students to submit who they want to work with.
π A sheet for students to have a say in which teacher they get the following year.
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A set of worksheets and laminates for students to investigate the tangent function and its relationship to the gradient of the hypotenuse. I usually start this lesson with this video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcMm6TJoYL0
...and discuss how Pythagoras and trigonometry are essential to anything beyond the earliest computer games (anything requiring diagonal movement).
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