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/
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.
Answer the questions, reveal the (cheesy) joke. These allow those students who are confident to get on and find their answers on the sheet whilst the teacher helps those who require it.
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!
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!
Answer the questions regarding column vectors and reveal the punchline to a cheesy joke; popular in class and online despite the cheesiness of the jokes, which is a surprise if I’m honest!
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.
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).
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-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.
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.
Looking at shapes like rectangles, squares, triangles, cuboids and cylinders, fill in the missing parts of the table. This is designed to get students thinking rather than going into algorithm mode.
I plan to make a second one with more complex shapes eventually.
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.
I felt like doing an A Level codebreaker and this seemed like a good topic to start with. Use laws of logarithms to reveal the punchline to a cheesy joke…
The “Card Sort” sheet is actually the answers, but I have produced a worksheet version if you aren’t keen on the faff of cutting and sticking. I’ve included the sketches in case you want to change anything.
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.
This came from observing a colleague and an idea of making students use their knowledge in a more general way. I have gone from basic angle facts up to circle theorems. I have also (acting on advice) given example reasoning for students to circle on some questions…
