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/
Clive is having issues with percentages, including "of a number", percentage change, repeated change and reverse percentages. Please help Clive correct his work and explain what he's done wrong. Designed to create discussion and allow students to demonstrate their thinking/understanding.
Find the lengths of the tunnels using the Sine and Cosine Rules. The students have to decide which to use with the information that they have. An attempt to show a use for the mathematics in a real life sense.
There are 8 sets of five questions that have been answered either correctly or incorrectly, the students have to decide which. These are designed to create discussion in classrooms and include one-step, two-step, brackets, variables on both sides, equations involving fractions, simultaneous equations (linear only) and quadratic equations (both factorised and non-factorised). Hopefully there should be something for all levels up to GCSE.
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 fractions, decimals, percentages, sequences, probability, expressions (algebra), quadratics, standard form, indices and other topics. I will be using these as starters to get students thinking.
I wrote this for students who aren't that keen on algebra, so have interspersed some relatively easy numerical problems with similar algebraic problems, getting them to write down their thought process to solve them. The ultimate aim is to show the students that the equations are just like the numerical problems.
Six “Crack The Safe” activities where there are more possible answers than questions thus avoiding students guessing or answering by process of elimination. These are designed to be starters or plenaries but obviously the choices is yours. There is a symmetry (both reflective and rotational) activity, plus one each on reflection, rotation, translation and enlargement before a final sheet on mixed transformations (not including enlargement however as this proved problematic in the format!).
This leads students through basic angle facts through parallel lines, polygons and then onto forming and solving equations or writing angles using algebra.
Erica has recently had a homework on exponentials and logarithms (including natural logarithms) and is really srtuggling. Can you help her by correcting her answers and explaining her mistakes? Designed to encourage discussion and the ability to check work carefully, as the new A level course seems to like.
Three of the characters are flying around Europe and need your help with the equations of the lines for their route. There are three (all on the same sheet) that get increasingly difficult. Depending on the confidence in this topic topic, start them where you see fit.
Erica is tackling equations of circles but is, as usual, making errors. Can you help Erica correct the errors and explain what she has done incorrectly. designed to get students to check work carefully and discuss what has gone wrong.
Answer the questions, match to the letters and get a fish-related joke. These are useful in class, online or for homework; students seem to like them too despite the quality of the jokes…
Join Woody (from Toy Story) on his fraction ranch, helping to put the animals into the correct pens, feeding them and getting bales of hay together too. This involves equivalent fractions, fraction of an amount and adding fractions. The powerpoint now contains a video!
Two sets of "explosions" involving prime factors and using them to calculate LCM and HCF. There are some where students are given the two numbers and have to find prime factors, HCF and LCM; there are others where students are given the prime factors and have to find the numbers, HCF and LCM; there are some where students are given the HCF and LCM and need to find the numbers and their prime factors. It it is designed to lead to discussion.
I have so few resources for a lesson on 3D views that I felt I had to write one and this came to mind. The usual cheesy joke having found all the answers. Depending on the class I do this with I may allow multilink usage or I may not; you will know your class better than I.
