I have been a teacher for over 20 years - all the stuff I upload has been tried and tested in my classroom. I don't mind a discussion on Twitter too where I also share new resources. I now have a personal website: https://andylutwyche.com/
I have been a teacher for over 20 years - all the stuff I upload has been tried and tested in my classroom. I don't mind a discussion on Twitter too where I also share new resources. I now have a personal website: https://andylutwyche.com/
These are actual recipes so consider this cross-curricular but ultimately this involves recipes and proportion/ratio to find a (terrific) fish joke. Ideal for starters, plenaries, main tasks or homeworks. Proper one posted now!
These are terrible cheese jokes discovered by answering maths questions. There are 15 more if you like these. The students like the challenge of finding the punchline in my experience.
Can students use the clues to work out the numbers and form the joke. These have been popular in class and online, despite the cheesy nature of the jokes!
Can you help the designers at Kelvin Kline complete their symmetrical collection of dresses and t-shirts for next season? Involves reflective and rotational symmetry.
I was asked to help some students (Years 9 and 10) who massively lacked confidence with number, so I came up with this set of questions working through general calculations, calculations with brackets, powers, fractions, percentages and decimals. In each case the student must balance both sides of the equation; it is designed to encourage discussion and thinking rather than just running through a set of similar questions. I hope you find it useful.
Two fish jokes to reveal: one is trigonometry in right-angled triangles and one is either Pythagoras or trigonometry. These are always popular with my classes and I’ve used them in class and online but I know colleagues have used them as homeworks.
This is designed for students sitting AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate (it could be a basic A Level one too), but it is the usual thing: answer question, laugh at joke.
There two sets of tables (one without negative values of x and one with) and equations to match up. There are two more tables than equations meaning that guessing is far more difficult but as an extension students can work out the missing equations of lines. This should encourage some discussion too.
Six matching activities that get increasingly harder. Not all match which means that "process of elimination" cannot be used by students. This involves listing integers based upon an inequality and solving them too. This is an activity designed to encourage discussion. Now with quadratic inequalities slides! Errors corrected (I hope).
Some questions involving bounds leading to an aquatic joke; these seem to be popular in the classroom and online, even though the jokes are of a Christmas cracker standard.
This is designed to get students to include all the relevant information when describing a transformation, and it revealing a cheesy joke. Students seem to enjoy the fact that they can just get on and check their own answers with these; they have worked both online and in class.
On a trip around my local record and charity shops I found the 7 inch single of the Fraggle Rock (a popular 1980s children’s TV show featuring muppet-like creatures) theme tune. Having posted a picture of my find on social media it was suggested that I should write a maths resource involving them and this is what occurred. It is essentially fractions, decimals and percentages (you probably guessed that from the title) and involves finding the fraction of an amount, comparing fractions, equivalent fractions, decimals, percentages, percentage of a number and repeated percentage change. The presentation includes links to the theme tune and uses the characters from the show. The last video link now updated.
This is four sets of four questions on statistics, mainly involving statistical graphs including pictograms, bar charts, pie charts, frequency diagrams, scatter graphs, cumulative frequency, box plots and histograms. They get increasingly more difficult as you work your way through them. The answers are given but elements of each question are missing in each case and students are required to fill in the blanks so that the questions work. This is designed to create discussion and allow students to demonstrate that they can interpret statistical graphs.
Two fish-based jokes: one on direct proportion and one on inverse proportion. Each has tables of paired values and students need to work out the equation linking x and y. These work nicely in class or as a homework.
Answer some questions involving negative numbers in context and reveal a joke involving or related to fish. These work well in the classroom as a starter or main task but also online or as a homework. The students seem to enjoy the challenge of discovering the corny joke too!
Four spiders which are easiest at 12 o’clock then get harder clockwise; they also allow for debate about what function fits the coordinates given. These are designed to stop students just following a set of rules and to get them thinking; I hope it works!
I found this map of the Neet (Not in Employment, Education or Training) data from 2009/10. I have looked at Worthing purely because that's where I work. Not the most happy statistics, but real-life and relevent to the kids, and might encourage them to get the best grades they can before they because a statistic!
