Varied names around the world for the same topic! (NB> New Aus. Curriculum is moving to exponents!) A key starting point in looking at this though is probably Michael Fenton’s blog on the topic, in particular noting the way he Read More …
Category: Maths lessons
Solving Equations
Wanted to pool a few resources here that I have come across to use for solving equations – there’s a mix of one-step and two-step stuff out there of course and one with a number of ‘game’ type activities was Read More …
Scientific Notation
Keen at this point just to make a reference to Sarah’s page with a stack of activities around scientific notation. I’m going to try some of these out and ideally report back on here any reflections. (I’ve added a mockup Read More …
Measurement Starter Question
During measurement topic, ask the students, how can a shape be both bigger AND smaller than another. For example, I used this doing perimeter and area of a semi-circle. I drew two diagrams on the board with particular dimensions where Read More …
Introduction to Trigonometry
With many thanks to Dan Pearcy I stumbled across his introduction to trigonometry lesson. I ran it with my year 9 advanced class and I thought it was great! Love the moment when I started writing out all the ratios Read More …
Area and Unit Conversions
Introductory lesson perhaps to discussing area – a ‘madeover’ task by Dan Meyer and friends. Gets students estimating areas and then later doing the calculation. Unit conversions also required between feet and metres (depending on measurements used)
Linear Equations
In terms of an introduction to linear relationships, I could try this desmos activity? Haven’t used this particular resource yet but came across it through twitter. Seems to have a good series of activities (including desmos) to help understand graphing Read More …
Rates / Ratios – an introduction
Ratios: Thanks to Twitter (Nathan Kraft?) I came across this video to use as part of an introduction to ratios. Nice bit of humour/relationship insight thrown in for good measure 🙂 There’s also Dan Meyer’s task on ‘Nana’s chocolate milk‘ Read More …
Year 10 Multiple Events using tables
Came across a blog from Sarah Carter with a “Probability Bingo” game. She provides the link for Dave Ferris’ site who provided the idea in the first place – see file attached with the probability-bingo template. Dave also has a range Read More …
Maths/Math related Images/Discussion starters
Sourced via twitter (@laurenduca), this one is a good statistics / bar graph / bar chart discussion starter! There was also a link Dan Meyer provided to this graph on life expectancy v. health expenditure (reminds me of the statistics Read More …