As a secondary maths teacher I enjoy making my own resources. These have either been made for school or for tuition all designed with students in mind. Resources include differentiation and focus on fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
As a secondary maths teacher I enjoy making my own resources. These have either been made for school or for tuition all designed with students in mind. Resources include differentiation and focus on fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
I have always found it difficult to tutor negative numbers adding and subtracting without saying, "two negatives make a positive". Then when I was at university I was taught a way to show negative numbers with + - signs like in science, as it is common that a child would be taught about positive and negative charges in science. Unfortunately this didn't work too well with a year 6 pupil I tutored. I then decided to adapt this method and put positive and negative signs onto some cubes, this way the pupil could physically see what was happening. The pupil much preferred 'hands on' methods anyway and found this easier to understand.
Therefore I thank the person who came up with the original idea which enabled me to adapt it to my pupils.
This resource is designed to check students understanding with negative numbers. Some of the answers are incorrect and the students need to find where they are. Once they find them, they need to write why they think it is incorrect and how they would fix it.
This is a sneak preview for a resource available online for £2.50. The resource includes worked examples, fluency, reasoning questions, error analysis and problem solving. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dividing-decimals-11709134
Just a small resource highlighting the properties of prime numbers and multiplication. To make it easier you could input a few numbers in the circles and ask the pupil to complete the others.
A resource designed to introduce venn diagrams to students without using numbers. This could be modified to different food objects etc. You could also partially fill the diagram and ask students to complete the diagram, or you put an ingredient in the wrong place and ask the students to correct it.
Continuing with addition and subtraction I have created this resource again designed to get the students to think more. The fourth empty grid is for students to create their own.
This is designed to test pupils knowledge of words associated with a particular topic, for this I have used number properties. This could be adapted to other topics and used as an end of unit plenary.
This resource takes six articles from the Guardian newspaper which involve percentages. The student is asked to match the percentage to the decimal equivalent.
Continuing to work on the number section, I have created a few tables that test pupils knowledge of number properties. They have to first of all complete a table, then they have to find a number that is incorrect, then they have to put the categories in, then they can create their own and finally they have to explain why the final table cannot happen.
For Wednesday’s problem we merge together area, perimeter with mode and median. The student has to calculate the mode and median of cards containing shapes. Students are then given the mode and median of a group of cards and the student has to identify which cards are chosen.
Plenty of practise throughout the worksheet of area and perimeter. This can be used as a worksheet, a homework sheet, a recap lesson. Students could extend this further by creating their own shapes and calculating area and perimeter, or creating questions to ask a partner.
This resource can be found for free on TES until Friday 10th August.
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Today’s resource looks at cards with calculations on. Students are then asked to calculate the probability of choosing a randomly selected card and it having a certain property.
What I really like about this resource is it means students can practise their number calculations with BIDMAS, test them on their understanding of types of numbers, all whilst answering a probability question.
This would be a good resource for a year 7 class and encompasses fluency reasoning and problem solving.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.
This is a sneak preview resource for a revision session. Students are asked to calculate the answers and sum together. There is a check in point to check that they are on the right track. To make it more difficult you could adapt it by the checkpoint but getting the student to sum the total themselves
