Subject to further development…

Adding Multiplication Estimation

Eight slides to prepare for Christmas. Does Father Christmas really exist? If so, where does he come from? The links from the slides suffice to begin a greater journey into how the name and image of St Nicholas has changed over the past 1300+ years (at the hands of Martin Luther (and Protestant Christians), Coca Cola and others) but also how his eternal spirit travels and lives on.

**A couple of poems with a few mathematical questions. Nothing too heavy; but enough to spur some thought.

From days at Primary; animated & adjusted to work for -ve powers of 10 as well as +ve.\nKibel [pp34-40 Miles T.R., Miles E. (2004)Dyslexia é mathematics] has +ve story to tell about Dienes blocks.\nWorth remembering that their use can be scaled up é down. Hence BETTER version will be made by someone with time é 3D ICT kit. It’ll ZOOM in é out to enable pupils to view (é correctly name - for US é Brit purposes!) numbers as big as a Googol é as small as...\nIt'll use techniques like those in these slides; but combined with ZOOMING as seen in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Tym_6YLUI

Video montage

Four pics one word Bedford vocabulary

The people running Bedford bridges mini-marathon in England, UK want to extend the number of bridges it crosses.\n\nBedford, England has a great many bridges. Can you find a route that crosses each bridge only once?

The United +Kingdom+ is a constitutional monarchy, so resources around the Diamond Jubilee are useful. \n\nTime: aligning 60 years' worth of facts in 60 minutes or 60 seconds! \n\nSimply colour in 25 years (silver Jubilee), 50 years (Golden Jubilee) and 60 years (Diamond Jubilee). \n\nFractions: colour & discuss the first quarter of HM QE II's reign, the second quarter, or... maybe thirds, or twelfths, or... you get the idea.

Transformations - enlargementArguably the ultimate 'shrink ray' opportunity and certainly a great opportunity to revise linear enlargement skills in a starter with Gru and Vector.Sounds are courtesy of http://movie-sounds.org.and images are courtesy of Google and First News.As ever, if there is doubt as to whether the images/sounds are subject to copyright, the no-profit, educational purposes and no-charge-advertising/no-charge-product-placement arguments apply: it's not about how much teachers should pay so much as it is about how much they should charge.

How much will your pupils pay *you* to switch over to a Red Nose Day-themed revision sheet/lesson? Charge them what you can and pay it through to Comic Relief! :-)

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Quiz JFK Mrs Brown Gordon Brown Werner Von Brown William Jefferson Clinton Ted Kennedy Jenna Bush Railways Dr Beeching Childcare John Masefeild C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Aldous Huxley Randall Hopkirk Deceased Tom Baker David Tennant Patrick Troughton Dalek James Bond Harry Potter Hermione Granger Bedford Bedfordshire Mine Mines Mining H. G. Wells Back to the Future Marty McFly Terminator John Connor Susan Jenny King Arthur Amy Pond Riversong Amelia Unchained Melody Unearthly Child

Quadratic\nLinear\nEquation\nInequality

A simple taxonomy activity. It might be upgraded by duplicating the sheet for years from 1937 through to 1945. It is left to colleagues to debate whether the Anschluss and similar events represented an invasion or not; and whether Spain and other countries were truly neutral.

Seeing gradient.

Place Bearing Point on ground and calibrate to magnetic north using compass/GPS. Pupil stands on Bearing Point with trundle wheel. Giant scale map-making/diagram-drawing begins. Corners/Vertices can be marked using cones. Bearing point can be lifted and replaced with cone at each vertex to aid taking further bearings. £4.50 IKEA Mat: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40239429/ Chalk pen: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pens+chalkérh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apens+chalk [might work with Tippex pen]

Print the .pdf using the multiple pages per sheet option; or create GIANT WHOLE CLASS card sort by printing each page on A4. Several ways to sort these effectively. Be inventive!

Maths Revision for Red Nose Day. *All* monies I recieve from TES website (60% of what you pay) for this resource will be given to Comic Relief. I will keep nothing! What TES choose to do with their 40% is up to them! :-) You can: (i) run it as a plenary on screen. (ii) print the full set of 9 nose's questions on a single sheet of A4 and then photocopy onto a larger (A3) quiz sheet. Answers included for each option in format consistent with the option (one-to-one & block of nine).

Differentiated questions with two different answer approaches: Allowing progression by attempting one at each level of difficulty then marking before returning to try each again. Allowing progression by attempting all at each level of difficulty and then marking before moving up a level.

A mini task. Defining and redefining 'the counted thing': one. Leads to creation of Venn diagram. Requires or tests recognition of circle, square and rectangle. Once they've understood the ideas, pupils can be encouraged to apply them when they are next in the garden of an English pub