Download the PowerPoint here Another rounding lesson. I’ve added a load of whiteboard work with this one. I really think mini whiteboards are the best place to deal with this kind of stuff. Again, I’m trying to use more things like number grids in my examples. This defiantly needs another little activity, but I haven’t… Read More »
Download the resource here I can’t believe I haven’t made these slides before. I have a group with lower prior attainment this year, so I wanted to really try and be explicit when teaching this. In my example I went for both a number and a place value grid. There’s quite a bit of mini… 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. I didn’t want to have an example problem pair for this. Instead I went with more of a pattern spotting thing. I think this is quite nice (it all animates in so isn’t displayed at once). Then some fluency questions. Then another PIXEL PUZZLE. I like these, and my ratio one… Read More »