Maths teacher Kathryn Hurrell sets up this kinaesthetic activity to help her lower ability year 9 pupils understand straight-line graphs. She gives groups of pupils some simple y=mx+c equations and they work out pairs of suitable coordinates and stand at that point within a large scale set of axes on the classroom carpet. By doing this, they start to appreciate what their graph should look and feel like, and how its ‘slope’ changes with the different equations they’ve been given.

Kathryn, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, explains that any classroom management issues this activity might raise, through pupils moving around the room, are outweighed by its value as a practical and effective lesson that they’ll easily remember when they’re thinking about graphs and gradients.

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Gentlemanus

4 years ago
5

dlamatasan

8 years ago
5

This is awesome. Cant wait to practice this with my Year 8 students. Thanks for sharing!

HVGough

11 years ago
5

Brilliant!!! Can't wait to try it with my disaffected year 9s!

againstallodds

11 years ago
4

Great work can't wait to try it with my year 9 group

bk15

12 years ago
3

This is a great idea using practical applications to learn straight line graphs in KS3.

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