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Primes; squares and roots puzzle
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Primes; squares and roots puzzle

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A puzzle where students answer questions to get letters and clues and have to figure out who the mystery celebrity is. Questions are all related to primes; squares and cubes; roots and triangular numnbers. CC Aligned: 8.EE.A.4
Curved Graphs
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Curved Graphs

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A handout where students plot quadratic equations by filling out tables and plotting points. Starter has directed numbers and substitution. Extention brings in cubic euations and investigates negative coefficients of x squared.
Direct and Indirect proportion generator
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Direct and Indirect proportion generator

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This excel file gives 2 lists of numbers, one labeled a and one b, we are told that they are directly proportional and students have to work out how to get from a to b, the constant can be hidden and shown, and new sets can be generated. The next sheet is the same except for indirect proportion.
Cumulative frequency graphs (drawing)
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Cumulative frequency graphs (drawing)

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A handout for creating CF tables from grouped frequency tables and then CF graphs from the tables. CC: functions overview build a function that models a relationship between two quantities
Goldbach Starter
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Goldbach Starter

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A simple slide introducing Goldbach conjecture and asking students to try to express numbers 5-50 as a sum of 3 primes, can be used as starter.
Multiples and LCM
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Multiples and LCM

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A simple multiples and lowest common multiples handout, with a starter practising some times tables and a worded extension.
Powers starter
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Powers starter

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10 question with ten seconds for each, each question is a number raised to another number. answers at the end
Special number cards
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Special number cards

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Set of cards with numbers. Students have to try and split them into 4 groups. The groups are primes, squares, cubes, triangular numbers. Might be more interesting to not tell them the four groups and see what they come up with first.
Estimation of height starter
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Estimation of height starter

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Nothing fancy here, just a settler, 5 pictures to estimate length, could be followed up by a discussion on how people estimate or what could be considered a sensible estimate.