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.
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Really good practical idea/resource to use when introducing solving linear equations. I used it after we had already done a little algebra and so this exercise was to link together the practical, the visual, the algebra and explaining in words.
Each pair has an A4 laminate of the Scales.gif and a envelope of 10 weights and about 10 gold blocks (Resources.jpeg). You'll need to print these out, laminate and cut out.
Then the TaskSheet.docx goes in to the pupil exercise books.
The students use the practical resources to come up with balancing scales and then reproduce them in their books. They then choose one to present as a poster on A4 (POSTER.docx) . I gave them all a black and white copy of the poster first and once corrected they could do again "best" on the colour copy.
After that we scanned the posters in and then choose examples to set them to the class as the starter for the next day.
This is what my written feedback said after being observed by my Head as a part of a learning walk:
"Areas of good practice:
-High quality resource which was visual and involved pupils in a practical activity
-Pupil choice
-Pupils making up their own questions
-Pupils working collaboratively
-Use of Magenta Principle CHANGE where pupils had to alter a set of variables and CONNECT where they used the information given and previous learning."
I found this resource in the cupboard but it had no instructions so I came up with this idea to use it.
"Sheets" is a starter worksheet for tables to work on collaboratively
The "New Stickers" are five different ability questions which can be stuck into student books as their starter or given out at the end as their plenary. These are really good for exemplifying Mastery
The NewA4 is a simple WS used for some students
Ten questions where an equation is given and four possible solution choices. Students have to choose which is the right solution and obviously justify it to you. The mouse is on a balancing log as a reminder that equations must balance!
There two versions of this. One shows the graphs and then on next click shows the equation. The other shows the equations and then on next click shows the graph.
Get the the students to show the answers on their whiteboards before you display the answer.
Simple idea....Make sure the student have everything they need to do the work. Make sure you have prepped them and given them opportunities to discuss it and ask questions. Check everyone understands what to do and how to do it. Then give them the task and insist on five minutes of "Successful silence". During this time they are absolutely not allowed to talk - even the students with TA's. That way they are given the chance to work quietly. This is something the students have said they want - quiet time to work in.
This was done as a "Action Research Lesson Study" with the North East Teacher Development Trust Network. See attached
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Each slide asks "What is this number divisible by?" It then uses animation to show the factors of that number. A prompt then asks "How do we know".
I'm planning to use this as a starter to learning Divisibility.
The pupils will display their answers on their indivudal pupil whiteboards and then answer "How do we know" to the class or to their table mates.
Nice PowerPoint with some quick questions on equivalence and a similar exercise
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WhatIsATriangle2x7Label; WriteMrWrongTrianglesLabel2x7; WriteKillerQuestionLabel2x7 = Get students to write their own questions to help ID, address misconceptions and to assess their understanding
WhatMakesATriangle2x7Label = Leads to discussion on the Triangle Inequality Law;
Following are hopefully obvious from names:
MyIdentifyTrianglePPT23Q's
MyFiveTrianglesDiagramsWithMarkingsForTypeID
FiveTriangleTypes-One per Page
FiveTriangleTypesOnA4
31TrianglePropertiesQuestionsCards