I taught in a range of schools for many years before moving into FE, where I found creative and imaginative approaches just as rewarding with adults. Most of my resources are concerned with giving control to the learner, through a range of methods. Some are great for just giving them experience of examination questions, and the chance to discuss these with other learners. I now concentrate on spreading the range of creations from UK KS1 to KS4, and across the Common Standards.
I taught in a range of schools for many years before moving into FE, where I found creative and imaginative approaches just as rewarding with adults. Most of my resources are concerned with giving control to the learner, through a range of methods. Some are great for just giving them experience of examination questions, and the chance to discuss these with other learners. I now concentrate on spreading the range of creations from UK KS1 to KS4, and across the Common Standards.
Standard style lesson plans put into PowerPoint for easy showing in the classroom, printing for handouts etc. All the objectives covering Number, Probability, Statistics, and Ratio, proportion and rates of change included. Twenty seven lessons in all.
All you have to do is add your own particular circumstances, resources etc.
After getting a 'one star' rating for the paid set of thirty, I thought of this - try these three for free, and if you like them, you can buy the full set, which cost £1.
You will find the rest of the files here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-gcse-higher-tier-specifications-and-objectives-30-lesson-plans-in-powerpoint-set-2-11126048
Probability questions from a variety of past UK examination papers, some quite challenging, with multiple choice answers added by me. Not yet trailed in the classroom so please advise me of any mistakes. (Nobody’s perfect, as Joe E Brown famously said on screen.)
This is more of an idea than a set of resources. Having a young learner who struggled with both simple addition in his head, including counting on, and poor recollection of tables, I turned to dice games as a way of helping the learner to develop fluency and retention. I found some online, and I give an example from NRich here. But I also produced addition and multiplication grids, first up to six and then up to ten, for six sided dice and ten sided dice. We take turns to throw the two dice, and mark off the score on our grids, either on an addition grid or a multiplication grid. First one to four in a row, including diagonals, wins the game. Or three in a row if we are short of time - let the learners decide. And finally I've added some with addition for three dice - Bingo style cards with 3 to 18. Each card has one missing number, so there are eighteen in total, with numbers jumbled on each. It would be easy to devise simple tables for the difference between the two dice - I might try that next.
Let me know what you think. My young learner loves the games we devise, and his skills have come on wonderfully.
Statistics questions from a variety of UK examination papers, suitably changed, and some new ones created to provide a full range, with multiple choice answers added by me. Not yet trailed in the classroom so please advise me of any mistakes.
Great for all sorts of things, and easily cut and pasted into shorter versions.
Answers to follow, but shouldn't be too difficult to work out.
Learners always need practical activities - colourful and kinaesthetic as they remind me, and Geoboards are great way of showing so much to do with shape and space. I've done simple templates, for learners to record, and also for using on a Smartboard. A variety of formats, with a few simple questions, but lots more can be asked. An &'open&'; resource for all types of thing.
A very short worksheet with four examples of price reductions - which one represents the greatest percentage discount? Alternately all on one slide of PowerPoint, plus the solutions on the same Powerpoint. Twenty minute activity, warm up, revision etc.\n(And I've corrected a mistake on the baguettes question and answer, I hope.)
Modular GCSE questions from multiple choice modular papers, now defunct but great for variety. Suitable for KS3 or KS4.\nI've previously added these in Word, and now adding PowerPoint. Part 1 are the easy questions, part 2 are slightly harder.
Psychologists suggest that a distraction, using a different part of the brain perhaps, helps the problem solving process. Four sets, which you might not want to do all at once. Answer slides included.
I actually wrote this for the Teaching Agency numeracy skills test - I'm helping a few people to pass this hurdle, hopefully. However, it has equal application in the classroom for KS3 and KS4. I also used it with Functional Skills, having changed the context to make it more vocational. FS invloves only mean and range, it is good to seperate the different measures in the mind of the learner.
A handful of activities I did to get the topics started for my adult GCSE and re-sit classes, largely so I could introduce them whilst seated during my convalescence. At the same time they might be useful for younger learners and for quick revision.\nAfter years of laying out cards I realised it was just as easy to print PowerPoint slides as handouts, six to a page, and do that on card. So there are equations to match to solutions, and a few other PowerPoints. Enjoy.
I teach 16 plus learners in a thirty or so week programme for GCSE - some retake and some new learners. What I have done here is put the Edexcel Linear A new scheme into the weekly slots, and devided all the criteria/spec statements into Aims and Objectives. I wouldn't expect anyone to follow the same order, or keep my jokes, but please copy slides as you want. \nInspectors love to see the aims pasted up, so I use PowerPoint.
Two activities - use code to do calculations, and match symbols to definitions and meanings. Simple activities to reinforce connection between image and function.
An extremely useful resource that has almost unlimited application.
I've taken the GCSE Maths specifications for 2015 and converted them into MS Word tables, landscape and portrait, mostly fitting on to one side for each area - number, algebra, etc.
They can be used for planning lessons, schemes of work, cutting and pasting into lesson aims and objectives, or for recording pupil/learner achievement on each objective.
In Word they are very adaptable, and columns can be added as required, for dates etc.
Specs Year 4'Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value.'
Year 5 'Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals.'
Thirty slides on an animated PowerPoint to introduce recognition of Roman numerals, and explore the advantage of Arabic numerals.
Plus lots of activities/worksheets, including Emperors' reigns, Roman roads, Olympiads, Children's TV (years), and answers.
All great fun, and could be cross-curricular.
