Recently I’ve been using a lot of Logic Puzzles from the Printable Puzzles website. They’re a really fantastic way to get students thinking, and to get them to use logic. They also help reading two way tables. You can get the last four days worth of puzzles for free (which is perfect for teachers) and… Read More: Logic Puzzles »
I was shown this corker of a graph recently. The scales there are wonderfully deceptive. I love a good misleading graph. They’re really good for generating discussion, especially when you delve into the difference between a graph merely being wrongly created and a graph that’s been deliberately manipulated to be misleading, as this one has.… Read More: Misleading Graphs »
I’ve been a fan of Only Connect for a while, especially it’s connecting wall. In the connecting wall round you get 16 clues and have to arrange them into four groups of four. You can play the BBC version here. I’ve wanted to create a maths version for a while, but I’ve never been quite… Read More: Only Connect »
A very simple worksheet on plotting quadratic equations. It’s slightly differentiated. The second set of pages (pages 3-4) contain the same questions but with no guide answers filled in. Download it here
I made this: Negative Number Code Breaker[PDF] It’s a simple worksheet where students find the answer to an addition, subtraction, multiplication or division sum and look it up in a grid. This then generates at letter. Once students have found all the answers their letters will spell something. These kind of worksheets are quite fun. They… Read More: Negative Number Codebreaker »
Tutor Time Videos is a great little website full of videos to show to your class. In tutor time. One video in particular, however, made me think of an interesting idea for a lesson. It’s a video showing what amount of different foods is equal to 200 calories. You can watch it below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMGUmcveQeg A… Read More: Designing a diet »
So I made some starters. You can find them here. The file name says ’25 starters’ but there’s actually more than fifty of them. I got carried away. There are some of the normal numeracy starters in this pack, but I’ve also tried to add unique and interesting ideas that can be used over and… Read More: TickTock Starters »
I am a fairly traditional teacher. I believe that people learn by doing, and people learn mathematical processes by doing them. However, doing a hundred questions is dull, so I’m always looking for ways to make a simple worksheet more interesting and involving. Here are a few ideas I’ve collected over the years and my… Read More: 100 Boring Questions »
A lot of maths is done at desks, in rows. I am guilty of this (I often find that if students are sat in groups of four, there is a little too much room for them to ‘hide’). However, going out of the classroom and into the real world is often really powerful. I was… Read More: Let's Go Outside »