Category Archives: Lesson Ideas

One number as a percentage of another

Download the PowerPoint here. I’m teaching percentages at the moment and as I do so, I’m updating my slides. I’ll mention what I’ve updated here. This PowerPoint I’ve split up from ‘percentage change’ and made them two separate lessons. I’ve added example problem pairs. Instead of trying to do everything at once. I had a… Read More: One number as a percentage of another »

Areas of triangles

Lesson PowerPoint here. This is a little different from regular lessons. There’s a worksheet (here) to go with it. I usually try and keep everything in one file, but here it just didn’t quite work. I’ve added pictures of the worksheet to the PowerPoint to make the questions easier to go through. I really think… Read More: Areas of triangles »

Areas of sectors

Powerpoint is here I have circles and compound shapes to go and then that’s circles done. I made some pretty big changes to my area of a circle PowerPoint after doing some questions. There’s now a bit about choosing either the area or circumference formula, as this is an aspect students found really difficult. I’ve… Read More: Areas of sectors »