Author Archives: Richard

Solving Equations with brackets

Download the lesson here. I only did ‘one side’ here. I figured it would be better to leave the two sides until later. Contains a lot of discussion slides. And some ‘correct the work’ slides. I don’t normally do ‘correct the work’ because I’ve had limited success with it in the past, but I’ve always… Read More »

Bounds

Download the PowerPoint/Worksheet here I’ve massively overhauled my previous bounds PowerPoint, which I think was pretty poor and needed updating. Loads of stuff here. One of things I did was screenshot some of this and put it into mathigon’s Polypad, and use that website’s number lines to really try and dig into the understanding. There’s… Read More »

The Cosine Rule

Download the resources here. I did the Sine Rule ages ago but never got around to doing cosine rule stuff. I think because the Mathspad activities are so good! I didn’t go much into labelling the sides (which maybe I need to in future) or putting it all together. I think I’m going to do… Read More »

Things I Think I Think…3

I aplogise to the Hull City blog Amber Nectar, who I kind of nicked this post format off. I’m really into ‘fill in the gaps’ activities recently. I love how they develop thinking forward and backwards. I love this worksheet on time calculations which I used recently. I went down really well and sparked great… Read More »

Things I Think I Think … 2

I love it when a student goes away and voluntarily does extra work because the task is so fun. This week I did a bit of Artful Maths’ Impossible Objects. Wonderful lesson and I got some great results. More than that, I got some really, really enthused students. I’ve been using my iPad a lot… Read More »

Solving One Step Equations

Download the PowerPoint | Download the worksheet Another attempt to take lessons that were a bit rubbish and update them, with a focus on good questions. I’ve taken what I think is quite a brave choice to use decimals extensively throughout. There is a reason for that, and that is thinking about the skill that… Read More »

Perimeter

Download the PowerPoint here | Download the worksheet here (not technically needed, just the PPT questions in a printer friendly format) | Download the plotting and measuring worksheet. One of the best MathsConf sessions I’ve been to, and one that I come back to again and again is Jo Morgan’s Indices in Depth (Watch a… Read More »