Trying to use variation theory My thinking A question to start Reversing the terms. Does balancing still work? A subtraction. How does this effect our balance. Does reversing the terms still lead us to the same answer Increasing the constant by one. What happens? Also: a decimal answer. We can have a negative answer Divide x, instead of multiplying it. Increasing co-efficient of x by one. What happens to our answer? Doubling co-efficient of x. Not sure about these last two. I think they may be a step back from question 7. This is the problem with presenting these in a linear format. These questions are variations on question 1, not question 7. I might experiment with some kind of spider diagram. Doubling the divisor from 7. Again, maybe the linear way these are written is a bit rubbish. Don’t know how I like the order of these questions, but there’s lots to think about and something to tweak. I have found the transition to asking ‘why have they asked you that question? What are they trying to tell you?’ has been difficult for some students, but I think it’s worth devoting time to it. If students are inspecting questions for things like this, maybe they’re more likely to read the question thoroughly and pick out it’s mathematics. Big hope, I know.

As always I often update my slides, but don’t always have the time to update TES. The latest version of this lesson can always be found at this link.

Changelog: 2 new sections. Changed some answers to address more misconceptions. Completely redone version of maths pointless. The countdown is now much, much quicker (as requested). New questions will also be coming in an update over the following weeks. Play over numerous rounds and keep score on the board. All credit to Paul Collins.

Full (couple of) lesson (s). Lots of stuff.

Full lessons. Covers a few discussion points, and goes through how to find experimental probabilities from tables. You should probably print off the questions as they go over two pages.

Colour in the boxes to make a little picture. Includes lots of misconceptions, lots of negatives and some fractional practice.

A lesson (or six) on adding and subtracting fractions. A shed load of stuff here. Example problem pairs. Tons of practice and puzzles and problem solving exercises. Pick what you want to show and go.

Lesson in a PowerPoint Starter Example problem pair Whiteboard work Exercise Problem solving type question to work on together Plenary - 5 Quick questions

No union or intersection. Just the language of using ‘subset’ and ‘is an elelment of’ and the signs.

A very simple lesson. A PowerPoint, some example problem pairs, two exercises and some exam questions.

My annual Christmaths maths quiz is back for 2022. Includes a Shakin Stevens video. Why not. 5 rounds linking maths and Christmas. Should take you about an hour.

Both using vectors drawn on a grid, and finding the magnitude from a column vector.

Very much a zoom in on one particular skill. Multiplying up or down recipes. Some whiteboard work and some questions along with an example problem pair.

No context here. Just focused on questions about writing the formula and then finding values of y and x.

Simple PowerPoint Multiplying decimals both from scratch and using previous facts. Ie 43 x 56 = 2408, what is 4.3 x 5.6? Includes example problem pairs and two exercises. Everything you need to teach this topic.

I’ve kept this as a separate lesson from dividing. I think it’s worth taking the time. Prior knowledge check Example problem pairs Learning check When I come to update this, I will add a section on multiplying then factorising. It wasn’t quite appropriate for the class I designed this lesson for. NOTE : I update my lessons a lot. To correct errors or make them better. I don’t always reupload them here. You can find the latest version of my PowerPoint here.

Lots and lots of stuff on Column addition and subtraction along with talk about efficient calculations like shifts, using the correct language talk about association and commutativity. Some example problem pairs, loads of exercises with answers and some plenaries. Enough for 2/3 lessons here.

Covers how to draw a frequency table, continuous and discrete data and finding the mode from grouped and ungrouped frequency tables. Has a starter, some example problem pairs, some questions (that aren’t amazing tbh) and a plenary.

KS3 Coordinate Geometry Starter Example/Problem pair Midpoints miniwhiteboard work and an exercise Then a stolen exercise from Don Steward thats AMAZING, finding the coordinates of the vertices of shapes. That’s why I’ve called it coordinate geometry rather than just midpoints.

A very simple Powerpoint, with a starter, an example problem pair, some questions (including some rearranging equations practice) and a plenary.