Three activities for students struggling with understanding the meaning of algebraic notation. The second one involves students matching answers and questions.
A collection of resources to help with teaching angles in polygons.
1 is an investigation to help students identify the rules at work
2 and 3 are two different length activities to practise the skills students have learnt.
4 is a Spot the Mistakes activity to encourage students to identify, discuss and correct misconceptions.
A worksheet cobbled together for substituting into formula. Questions taken from CIMT and formatted to cater for needs of the class.
Please note that this only focuses on substituting, not rearranging, even when the questions get harder.
An activity designed to get students to identify, discuss and rectify mistakes in an example question. Print off individually or for pairs and discuss at the board.
A resource designed to help students practise two way tables. Differentiated to increase in difficulty. Some questions, gratefully, taken from other sources.
Students need to follow the instructions using different combinations of numbers, they should find a pattern emerging. Can be then expanded to include 4 digit numbers, and to look for exceptions.
I wanted to bring my maths classroom closer to the real world, and specifically the problems and changes that we face. I wanted a resource that would raise awareness of important issues in society, invite discussion in a maths classroom, and spur action.
So these resources place key fraction skills in the context of society’s challenges. **Students work with fraction change and fractions of amounts. **
It provides an opportunity to practice problem solving in new contexts, and highlights the power that maths has to quantify issues and help address them. The numbers and statistics are all very close to the real numbers, often rounded to make it easier to work with in a classroom.
Feel free to add your own and adjust and help take maths into the world and its challenges!
An activity designed to help students with misconceptions. Students need to identify, discuss and rectify mistakes in the three questions.
Print out individually or for pairs and put up on the board to discuss.
An activity I enjoy doing with all classes. Students need to identify and rectify what is incorrect in the answers.
Print off copies for individuals or pairs and put on the board for a discussion.
Three activities designed to develop students' understanding of stem and leaf diagrams.
1 focuses on drawing accurately.
2 gets students to interpret diagrams.
3 is a Spot the Mistakes where students need to identify, discuss and correct the mistakes.
4 is an activity that can be used before an assessment to recap.