Starts off on foundation (Red) - expanding basic expressions - but moving on in difficulty even in the red section. Fluency questions.
Developing (Amber) - expanding expressions when two terms in and introducing more negatives. More complex fluency questions.
Secure (Green) - Expand and simplify moving on in terms of how many negatives are introduced.
Exceeding (Blue) - problem solving and developing thinking - constructing expressions and expanding them with written problems and shape. Pupils demonstrate they are confident with expand and simplify.
Answers included.
Great resources to keep pupils engaged, can be used as a PPT presentation, Worksheet or I like to use as a thoughts and crosses - pupils play rally coach talk each other through how they got the correct answers and coach the other person if they wrong. First person to get connect four wins points on the system.
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My pupils absolute loving the challenge of these activities. Pupils work in pairs and the first person to get a connect four wins. Both pupils are coaching each other to ensure answers are correct. Really nice way of engaging pupils.
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