Download the PowerPoint here Final resource of this half term. I’ve packaged together some of the starters that I’ve been putting on Twitter challenging misconceptions I’ve seen in lessons. Stuff that I see a lot but doesn’t necessarily have a place in a SoW. Stuff like the difference between a half and two Or when… Read More: Thinkers! »
Download the lesson here Quite a simple lesson here, but I’ve tried to fill it with some more thinky questions. My teaching has become far too scripted into example problem pair – some questions – a plenary. I’m not building in enough opportunities for problem solving and struggle time. Part of that is a scheme… Read More: Addition and Subtraction of Decimals »
Download the PowerPoint here This is one of those that’s not that interesting, but where I tried to be reasonable comprehensive. There’s actually quite a few linear equations type questions that come up at GCSE, before you even get into the possibility of the unknown being on both sides. You could easily spend 2 lessons… Read More: Solving Linear Equations with Fractions »
Download the PowerPoint here Another rounding lesson. I’ve added a load of whiteboard work with this one. I really think mini whiteboards are the best place to deal with this kind of stuff. Again, I’m trying to use more things like number grids in my examples. This defiantly needs another little activity, but I haven’t… Read More: Rounding to decimal places »
Download the resource here I can’t believe I haven’t made these slides before. I have a group with lower prior attainment this year, so I wanted to really try and be explicit when teaching this. In my example I went for both a number and a place value grid. There’s quite a bit of mini… Read More: Rounding to 10, 100 and 1000 »
Get the PowerPoint here Everyone hates the term BIDMAS, right? Lots of reasons, but the left to right nature of multiplication and division (and addition and subtraction) must be the most important reason. This week’s lesson is nothing too fancy. An example problem pair, which is way harder than the exercise. I’ve been mulling this… Read More: The Order of Operations »
Download the PowerPoint here What I like talking about, though is efficient calculations. I’ve extracted them and made them into their own lesson here. I really believe in talking about this stuff. My year 7s will sit for ages and work out a calculation left to right without even thinking about number bonds. We’re sometimes… Read More: Efficient Calculations : Addition and Subtraction »
Download the resource here Probably the last resource I will do on vectors, because I’m not sure how much more value I have to add on this topic. I think a lot of it just comes down to practice. There’s only 4 slides here. A little exercise about identifying when vectors are parallel, which I… Read More: Parallel Vectors »
Download the PowerPoint here Ok, so I found a bit of time today and put this together. It’s very basic, but covers finding ‘routes’ using vector geometry. It also covers midpoints. There’s not enough practise here, but that was deliberate. I would set them key skill K652/K653 on Dr Frost Maths to reinforce this skill.… Read More: Introduction to vector geometry »
Download the PowerPoint here There’s two nice tasks here, and some presentation that I’m proud of. For instance, I tried to build up the difficulty here pretty gradually. There’s also room for discussion on the magnitude of vertical and horizontal lines. Moving to the skill we really want I thought this was a clever way… Read More: Magnitude of a vector »