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 »
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 »
Download the resource here Sometimes you look back at your old work and feel it was written by another person. I went to teach completing the square this week and I couldn’t understand my own resource. It was all over the place. I’d clearly thought about activity first and the learning journey second. It was… Read More »
Download the PowerPoint here. I created this after a discussion on Twitter. Estimating is more complicated then I give it credit for. We have to decide the level of rounding that’s appropriate, based on the calculation being done. It’s not just as simple as rounding to 1 s.f. I did some questions that are quite… Read More »
Download the PowerPoint here. OK. So this is a big one. Firstly, I have found teaching negatives difficult in the past. Teaching the rules is a bit useless. ‘Two negatives make a positive’ often leads students to doing things like -5 – 9 = 4 (or similar). I avoid the rules like the plague. I… Read More »
Lesson PowerPoint here. I decided not to go into parts of circles like quarters and halves, but concentrate on using the formula. I figured parts of a circle are easy enough to cover whilst teaching sectors. YMMV.