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/
This gives you a calculation at the centre of each of four “spiders”; students then have to use the central calculation to fill in the blanks using their knowledge of place value. Some blanks are answers are answers to a calculation, some are questions where they are given the answer. This is designed to avoid students getting in to a rut regarding these questions and make them think about their answers.
Impossible, the game show, involves asking questions and giving three possible answers: one correct, one that’s incorrect but could be correct in a different context, an impossible answer. There are twelve questions on various different topics and this is designed to encourage reasoning and discussion. Getting the answer correct is obviously important but the discussion as to why the impossible answer is correct and the other one not correct for the context might be more interesting. Topics include fraction calculations, place value, rounding, coordinates, angles and others and could be useful for Year 7.
Two fish jokes to find involving gradients: one short one with lines and one where students have to find the gradient between two points. These work in class, online or as homeworks and seem quite popular.
Two fish jokes to discover by understanding y=mx+c and the properties of parallel and perpendicular lines; these are useful for in class, online classroom and homework.
Solve the simultaneous equations and reveal the joke; ideal for either in class, online or as a homework task. The students like the competition of unveiling the punchline first.
Two fish-related jokes to find: one for factorising and one for completing the square/using the quadratic formula. These work nicely in class, online or as a homework.
Another fish pun/gag solved by solving the (linear) simultaneous equations graphically. In each case one of the lines is drawn (although it is not clear which one so students will have to work that out too) and they have to draw the other. These work nicely in class, online or as homework and the groans over the jokes are a wonder to experience!
There are six slides with a percentage and fraction sales-related question question. This involves calculating sale prices, working out which sale would offer the best price and finding the original price given the sale price. This is designed to create discussion in class.
Students must work out whether statement is true or false regarding the tree diagram. These sheets work well online in my experience as they can be done from the screen. This involves a tree diagram where the second probability is conditional upon the first.
This is a sheet which involves eight questions with answers given on the sheet (there are ten potential answers for the eight questions to avoid guessing). These have worked well for online schooling and allow students who are reasonably confident to get on as their answers appear on the sheet. In the meantime the teacher can help those who are less confident.
Three diagrams and ten statements or angles that students need to state whether they are true or false. This could lead to nice discussions in class or in live online lessons.
I needed something on two-way tables that wasn’t just creating and filling them in so produced this. There are ten statements which students must decide whether they are true or false; there are also blanks in the table for them to fill in. These have been working well in online lessons hence I’m am writing these at the moment!
Clive has a histogram homework for your students to check. These are designed to get students discussing and thinking about the mathematics. I have also designed this to work online as there is minimal drawing involved (although there is a little).
These are designed to allow those students who are confident to get on, checking hat their answers are on the sheet whilst the teacher helps those who need it. There are 6 questions but 10 possible answers.
Another fish-related joke to discover once the HCF and LCM questions are answered. These work well online but also in the classroom and the students seem to enjoy discovering the joke no matter how cheesy. The reassurance of the spelling of a word allows students to get on.
Answer the probability questions, link them to the probability scale and unjumble the punchline to a fish-related joke. These have worked really well in online lessons, but also work well in in-person lessons, despite the groans regarding the jokes…
This is a whole set of lessons based around Maths in the real world: currency conversion, deals in shops, sales, tax, misleading statistics, ratio and proportion (recipes) etc. Each section has separate resources. I have put everything into one PowerPoint (“Whole”) but also uploaded them separately in case people want them individually. It is not supposed to get in to fine detail but just open student eyes to Maths that appears in day-to-day life just a little.
