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An experienced Primary & Secondary Maths teacher. Enjoying promoting and sharing my resources on TES. I embed problem solving, Maths Mastery and Magenta Principles into my lessons. I love fun and interactive elements which help engagement as long as challenge and assessment is built into this. Please do leave reviews if you find my resources useful. Thank you.

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An experienced Primary & Secondary Maths teacher. Enjoying promoting and sharing my resources on TES. I embed problem solving, Maths Mastery and Magenta Principles into my lessons. I love fun and interactive elements which help engagement as long as challenge and assessment is built into this. Please do leave reviews if you find my resources useful. Thank you.
Probability Calculating 1/n Equally likely outcomes Domino Loop Cards Game Activity and Worksheets
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Probability Calculating 1/n Equally likely outcomes Domino Loop Cards Game Activity and Worksheets

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Here are two sets of domino loop cards. You can use them for starters and then back them up with the matching worksheet or use as a plenary and then use the matching worksheet as the next days starter. You print them onto A4 card and cut them out. Then shuffle and give a set to your students. They have to rearrange the cards into a line order by matching the question to the answer. They are all questions like "The probability of getting a six on a fair die is..." The first set has 22 cards and the second (which is longer to complete and the questions are harder as well) has 34 questions. Afterwards (I like to get something into the student exercise books) there are matching worksheets where some of the questions have to be reworked out and written onto the sheets before the sheet is stuck in. There are two versions of each worksheet (One has more answers to put in so you can give to your quicker students). All in you are getting two sets of domino cards, each with two matching worksheets. Solutions to the domino cards and the worksheets are included! You could easily modify each of these card sets and WS to reduce the questions down to less for your lower/slower students. If you like and find it useful then please leave a positive review. Thank you.
Probability Coin Relative Theoretical Randomness Prediction Expectation Experiments Resource Bundle
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Probability Coin Relative Theoretical Randomness Prediction Expectation Experiments Resource Bundle

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All you would need for a probability lesson on coins. Some of these activities have been done as part of a circus of many activities where the students move around every 10 minutes or so however you can certainly build a lesson around these activities. Many more Circus Probability activities are listed on my TES Resource pages. If you like and find useful the please leave a positive review. Thank you.
Roll One Dice Die Random Investigation Theoretical Probability Experiment Resource Bundle Pack
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Roll One Dice Die Random Investigation Theoretical Probability Experiment Resource Bundle Pack

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All you need to have a lesson based on rolling one die and recording the outcomes. I’ve done this activity as part of circus of many activities in a lesson (Other circus activities listed on my TES Resources pages) but you can make a whole lesson out of this depending on what you are trying to achieve. Many different versions of the task sheets. Look at them all and decide on the best to suit your learners. Several different versions of Excel Spreadsheets to record the results on - including one which I can’t remember how it works (the RANDOM one). If you find it useful please leave a helpful review. Thanks
Golden Pass Reward Commendation Fun Activity Engagement Treat Special Random Name Chooser
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Golden Pass Reward Commendation Fun Activity Engagement Treat Special Random Name Chooser

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I've used random name choosers (RNC) for some time. SMART Notebook has a good one (It's a random word generator - you just put in the names of the students in the class). I came up with this idea after a student said "Can I pass the question?" and I replied "Not unless you have a pass card!" He then drew a pass card on his whiteboard and tried to pass it again! What we have are a variety of pass cards produced. The rules were written down for me to make sure I stuck to them and for consistency. Basically students can earn pass cards which then excuse them from answering questions when the random name chooser selects them. There is probably no educational value in doing this - it's just fun and it's very engaging for them. It's also quite funny when the class all pass all their questions to the class clown to answer (watch out for bullying though!) Students can earn pass cards for anything which you want to reward. The other way of doing this came from an INSET session where the facilitator asked us all to look under our seats for a prize. 200 teachers all looked under the seats. We all laughed (Not) as he said there was nothing to find there but he proved the point about the engagement of coming in to the lesson and seeing if you had a pass card! Hence the wallet size pass cards are simply blu tacked to the underside of a seat. You can choose (at random) whose seat to stick it under or you could just put it under someone you want to get involved more (as they will become the class center of attraction when they are picked by the RNC). I had students coming in asap during break to see if they had a pass card under the seat! I'd like to use it again however the head in my current school says that the school reward systems are to be used and these cards add an additional layer to the systems. I think that they can supplement the school systems and you can tailor them so that they fit within the school systems.
Key Blooms Question Prompt Assessment Lesson Interview Observation Ofsted Problem Solving
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Key Blooms Question Prompt Assessment Lesson Interview Observation Ofsted Problem Solving

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This is a really good resource of over 40 challenging questions which will get your students thinking and discussing their answers and methods. When you are being observed (well anytime really but...) you need to be going around the groups challenging them on their thinking. Obviously there is only one of you so it's good if you can give them the prompts for their discussions. These resources will help this. I have been told many times that a lesson plan should contain detail of the key questions which you are going to ask during the lesson. Some of these questions were put on my last observed lesson plan and it showed that I had thought about what I was trying to achieve from the students. The original file I created was the Publisher file which has five key questions which I printed on A4 and gave one copy to each table of four. One student then challenges questions to the other three. You can move this role around the table. This work quite successfully but it relies on a certain amount of routine from the students so it does require you training them. Recently I've collected a load of questions to add into the list. I've tried to be comprehensive to cover many different circumstances. There are a few similar to each other but I've added much to each one to try to develop the understanding. They are presented in a table format so it would be easy for you to pick out the questions you most want to ask and amend them if needed. Alternatively you could print out & cut up the cards and then simply pick out the ones you want. I have also now just picked out the eight questions myself from the list of 41 and put on A4 ready for printing onto card. These are probably the ones I would use. I would give each table a set of eight questions and each student would have to pick two cards which they would then either challenge themselves on or use to challenge the others. I think that this is a good resource and I'll be grateful if you could write a positive review if you find it useful. Thank you.
Estimation Probability Expectation Weather Equally Likely Relative Frequency Circus Activity
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Estimation Probability Expectation Weather Equally Likely Relative Frequency Circus Activity

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Originally I used this as a short 10 minute activity as part of a whole lesson of many circus activities (many other of my circus activities are listed on TES resources) however you can easily build a whole lesson around it. "Will it snow this Christmas?" is the question. First just ask this question. Then give them the last five years weather data. Make a choice again. Then give more data from last 24 years. Then ask them to make a choice again. Then give them the answer sheet. This is a good activity to provide lots of discussion. If you put the cards into sealed envelopes then it adds to the engagement and hence motivation. Its the sort of activity which looks great when being observed - particularly if you get some good discussion. You may wish to edit the city names to somewhere near your school. I made up the data but you could easily find the records of a city on the web. You may need a discussion about what constitutes snowing on Christmas day (e.g. snow flakes falling on the roof of the local BBC news building). You could bring in about how people bet on this happening. It may be worth adding in some question prompts like: How do you know this? Why do you think that? Are you absolutely sure? Can you prove it? Can you now explain to me why you think that! What evidence do you have about that one? You could put these prompts onto cards and ensure the students use them during the activity.
Probability True False Expectation Calculation Estimation Mr Wrong Activity Misconception Assessment
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Probability True False Expectation Calculation Estimation Mr Wrong Activity Misconception Assessment

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This is a top idea which I've used many times and I think it really does provide some great discussion. The probability of it snowing tomorrow is not 1/2 as it doesn't snow very often. However students often think that as the choice is either "snow" or "not snow" so the chance of it snowing must be a half. The activities here are designed to address this misconception. Originally I used this as a short 10 minute activity as part of a whole lesson of many circus activities (many other of my circus activities are listed on TES resources) however you can easily build a whole lesson around it. The activity has nine discussion questions to decide if they are true or false. The PowerPoint is simply those questions so that you can display them to discuss them as a class. The WS is good for a homework or as a classwork exercise to get something in the book. Alternatively you could simply ask them to choose one of the questions to write into their books and then describe in detail the answer. The Mr Wrong questions are useful as starters next lesson or plenaries today. You could easily amend the questions within in them to suit the point you are trying to make with your learners. The label is obvious. The A5 asks the student to choose which Mr Wrong is wrong (the other is right) and the A4 has two versions. The A4 can be used in many ways. E.g. You can ask them to write four statements (where one is true and the rest is false) and then they pass to another student to work it out. Alternatively you could write on the statements and they could identify the right and wrong ones. You can change the statements. For example on the A5 you could make both statements false (catches them out Ha Ha!) Enjoy. Please do leave feedback if you found it useful. Thank you.
Probability Key Words Glossary Poster Display and Circus Task SNATCH MATCH
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Probability Key Words Glossary Poster Display and Circus Task SNATCH MATCH

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Just a load of keywords for posters and displays. There's a simple short "Circus" type activity task as well (I have other Circus activities listed). The graded keywords may help you as I've tried to differentiate them. Any of these words can be printed out and laminated on A5 size cards for the "SNATCH MATCH" game. This is where the words are blu tacked to the wall and students stand a metre away. Teacher (or a TA or competent pupil) asks questions where the answer is one of the snatch match cards. The students are usual;ly in two teams facing the wall. Two students at a time have the opportunity to snatch the right card. Loads of fun!
Two Dice Probability Relative Frequency Expectation Experiment Game China River
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Two Dice Probability Relative Frequency Expectation Experiment Game China River

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mgh168 has come up with a superb engaging innovation on the classic two dice problem. I've used a couple of times over the last few days with several different classes and so here are some of the resources I've created. You can find the original TES resource "China River Crossing. Sample Space.Probability" by mgh168. The China River Game is very good and these files then take the students on from it. There is some data from a class and what dice scores they got - the spreadsheet can be easily amended to collect your class data. The Circus sheet is a task sheet for them to prompt discussion on outcomes - I have done this as a short 10 minute activity as a part of a whole lesson of students moving around many probability 'circus' activities. The Pier sheet can be printed onto A3 for the China game. The fact sheet will be useful. The ChinaBoatWS is useful for taking the understanding further. See the PowerPoint of the images of 10 student sample layouts on the piers. The Dice Bingo is a very good plenary/review. It's amazing how many students still insist on putting 12 on it. I also did the original experiment of rolling the two dice and looking at the scores. A SMART notebook is included for doing this including a graph WS for recording the scores. It's all free so download and you'll see what all the files are as they are obvious when you open them. If you find it useful do visit my TES shop and see my other resources on TES including many premium resources which I hope will save you lots of preparation time. Anything you like please do leave a review. Thanks