There are three booklets of key maths content.
These were quickly put together by condensing other resources I have accumulated over the years - so they are not perfect!
I hope to add answers and other options very soon.
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 skills of working with averages in the context of society’s challenges. **Students work with mean, mode, median, and interpretations of these. **
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!
Here are some ideas for creative activities at home!
They are sourced from our own experiences being confined in a small apartment in Paris, so they may not be perfect for everyone, but they have helped us get through the confinement and have added some excitement to the days.
Enjoy, and feel free to adapt and adjust as you see fit!
Print it on colourful A3 paper, laminate it, and get it up on the board to start celebrating mistakes and the learning that they yield!!
I found this a useful way of encouraging students to engage proactively with their mistakes and seeing them as a means of growing their brains. Particularly in mathematics where students were often paralysed by fear of mistakes.
You can even get students to come up and write their mistakes on the board, write mistakes with their corrections, and use them in lessons as a tool for recapping previous learning.
A whole notebook lesson ready to go. Includes starter, spaces for modelling to the whole class and then questions with answers for them to practice. Builds up to questions in context too.