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Mathematics
Engaging Ideas
Here is a little bit of a crib sheet with lots of useful ideas.
I've been reading 101 Classroom Games, written from a PE perspective and been looking at how to use it in a maths context.
The problem being the context in which answers are given etc. Well worth a read but here is a selection of some of the ideas it has inspired and a crib sheet to keep them in mind and begin using them.
Volume and Surface Area Relay
Relay for volume and surface area.
Students apply the formulae provided on the exam paper to the full range of 3D shapes. They also have an opportunity to consider surface area.
Hexagons; promote discussion, learning links
These hexagons promote the discussion over length, area and volume for B to A* candidates.
The idea comes from a English observation mentioned on the website linked and has been put into a mathematical context.
Place like dominos explaining the decision for the tiles placement in its given location thus revealing the deeper understanding of the student.
Area - Carpeting and Wallpaper Problem
Carpet and wallpaper a house with given information.
Sequences
Exploring sequences through a series of big problems that encourage students to find multiple methods. There are additional questions to promote deeper thought and understanding around a new method or technique. We begin at finding the nth term and conclude with ‘is a term part of a sequence?’.
I’ve removed resources used to practise and consolidate methods due to restictions but all content is freely available from corbettmaths.com and variationtheory.com
Classifying Quadrilaterals
I wasn’t quite happy with what was out there so created these 3 files. One blank, one complete(potentially a knowledge organiser for quadrilaterals) and a third for a quick quiz.
Bonus resource on Always, Sometimes, Never related to quadrilaterals.