I quite like this one.
It starts with a little whole class activity saying if two lines are parallel or not. If you click ‘check’ it’ll show you the graph. Nice!
![](https://ticktockmaths.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ezgif-2-73fcb753264a.gif)
Then students have to do some solo work on this, matching up equations with the same gradient. This is a nice little chance to interleave some rearranging formulas work and some fractional work.
![](https://ticktockmaths.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/parallel2.png)
Then we’re onto the typical example/problem pair.
![](https://ticktockmaths.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/parallel3.png)
And some nice little questions with a bit of variation theory. I deliberately wrote less questions that I maybe would normally, and focused on the quality of the questions and making sure that there was a good amount of stuff to talk about in regards to the answers.
![](https://ticktockmaths.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/parallel4.png)
Then onto some more difficult problems…
![](https://ticktockmaths.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/parallel5.png)
Overall, I was pleased with this lesson. I really felt that these questions and slides gave me a good structure to teach this content.
The only issue is that it’s a little too atomised. There isn’t quite enough here on picking out when to use these skills. Maybe that’s for the teacher to draw attention to.
As always : Hmmmmmm.