Download the PowerPoint here I think one of the reasons students struggle so much when facing this topic is the amount of ways we can phrase things. x multiplied by y. x times y. x lots of y. x items costing y each. I’ve tried to collect some of these here, but I’m sure there… Read More »
Download the resource here Sometimes a resource benefits from you deleting stuff, not adding stuff. I’ve got a much better understanding of what I want these resources to be, and how they’re helpful these days. Case in point. This used to be a massive PowerPoint stuff with activities, just for the sake of doing activities.… Read More »
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 »
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 »
Download the worksheet here Not sure how I feel about some of the decisions here. I’ve introduced a bit of index laws towards the end of the sheet. Is this madness? I thought I would add it to reinforce the difference between simplifying powers and simplifying regular expressions. Maybe it’s too much. As usual here’s… Read More »
HSBC launches Britain’s first fixed-rate mortgage below 1% [The Guardian] The bank is offering customers the chance to lock in for two years at an interest rate of 0.99%, but they need a deposit of at least 35% and will pay a product fee of ÂŁ1,499. The question then is, is this cheaper that most… Read More »
I was showing a fellow teacher DUDAMATH on Friday. It was all going well until this teacher, who I respect greatly, recoiled in horror. When you drag a term in an equation in DUDAMATH, and drop it on the other side, it changes the sign of the term. 4x becomes -4x. ‘Next you’ll be moving… Read More »