Tag Archives: projectalesson

Bounds

Download the PowerPoint/Worksheet here I’ve massively overhauled my previous bounds PowerPoint, which I think was pretty poor and needed updating. Loads of stuff here. One of things I did was screenshot some of this and put it into mathigon’s Polypad, and use that website’s number lines to really try and dig into the understanding. There’s… Read More »

Writing in standard form

Get the PowerPoint here This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office. Please tell me if you can’t download from the above link. Hopefully you can also see a preview of the PowerPoint above. (Clicking the ‘book’ icon should open a menu that will allow you to download a copy for yourself) Been… Read More »

Trigonometry

Download the PowerPoint here. This is basically a lot of ideas knicked from Resourceaholic. Sorry @mathsjem! Quite happy with this, though. I have used this with my year 9 class this year and I think I’ve taught trig better than I ever have before. Starts with sine. Talking about similar triangles. Not using the calculator… Read More »

Estimation

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 »

Adding fractions and mixed numbers

Download the PowerPoint here. So, I’ve been unhappy with my adding fractions lessons for a while. They were always ‘good enough’ but not actually good. This year, I decided that good enough wasn’t good enough. I needed to finally attack them. Flesh them out, make them interesting, build in opportunity for students to really test… Read More »