Download the lesson here. It’s a double bill today. Not mind blowing stuff, but my old slides were in desperate need of an update. I think that’s most of solving linear equations done now (bar working with fractions which is going to be a biiiiiiiiiiig job). I wasn’t sure about what to add to this… Read More: Solving equations with unknowns on both sides »
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: Solving Equations with brackets »
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: Bounds »
Download the PowerPoint and Worksheet here Just a quick one this week. I’ve been reading Michael Pershan’s Teaching Maths With Examples this week. It’s really good. I recommend it. Quick, simple and easily digestible. Great stuff. In the book, Michael describes using Venn Diagrams to give an overview of what, exactly, we mean when we… Read More: Venn Diagrams and Simultaneous Equations »
We’re back learning from home this week, and it’s given me a bit of impetus to clean up some old resources and make some new ones. Everything here is quite short and simple, but hopefully it saves someone a bit of time. Decimal Time Download the PowerPoint and worksheet here. I found when I was… Read More: New resources : Decimal Time, Percentage Increase without a calculator,… »
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: The Cosine Rule »
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…3 »
Download the PowerPoint and worksheet here. I have, again, tried to avoid inspection by using slightly annoying numbers. I would suggest that calculators are a must for this resource. I also added the following page, which I really like. Hopefully questions 9 and 10 provoke a good discussion. I love a bit of direct instruction,… Read More: New Resource : Solving Two Step Equations »
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: Things I Think I Think … 2 »
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: Solving One Step Equations »