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Dan Walker's Shop
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I'm a secondary school maths teacher with a passion for creating high quality resources. All of my complete lesson resources come as single powerpoint files, so everything you need is in one place. Slides have a clean, unfussy layout and I'm not big on plastering learning objectives or acronyms everywhere. My aim is to incorporate interesting, purposeful activities that really make pupils think. I have a website coming soon!

pptx, 303.62 KB
pptx, 303.62 KB

A complete lesson for introducing the trapezium area rule.

Activities included:

Starter:
Non-calculator BIDMAS questions relating to the calculations needed to area of a trapezium. A good chance to discuss misconceptions about multiplying by a half.

Main:

  • Reminder of shape properties of a trapezium
  • Example-question pairs, giving pupils a quick opportunity to try and receive feedback.
  • A worksheet of straight forward questions with a progression in difficulty, although I have also built in a few things for more able students to think about. (eg what happens if all the measurement double?)
  • A challenging extension task where pupils work in reverse, finding measurements given areas.

Plenary:
Nice visual proof of rule by relating to the rule for the area of a parallelogram.

Printable worksheets and answers included.

Please review it if you buy as any feedback is appreciated!

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