I have recently become involved in creating DESMOS activities for my classes. They have worked so well and have given me great feedback that I now want to offer them to other maths teachers.
I have recently become involved in creating DESMOS activities for my classes. They have worked so well and have given me great feedback that I now want to offer them to other maths teachers.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving finding number bonds to 1000.
There are 20 different questions. A great resource for weaker students. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving multiplying directed numbers, including indices.
There are 34 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
I have added squares and cubes to the end of the bingo, so depending on your class you could change the order of the slides to reflect their ability.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving writing numbers in standard for as well as writing numbers that are in standard form out in full.
There are 20 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving rounding to one and two decimal places.
There are 20 different questions on rounding to one and two decimal places. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause). **
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving finding 10% and 1% of an amount.
There are 20 different questions on finding 10% or 1% of an amount. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving finding the fraction of a quantity.
There are 24 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving finding number bonds to 100.
There are 20 different questions. A great resource for weaker students. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
This DESMOS resource has 12 questions on fully expanding single brackets with variables outside the brackets.
The DESMOS resource will automatically mark the students’ work and the teacher will be able to see their working in real time.
This a great resource for checking students’ understanding and correcting misconceptions.
The DESMOS resource has 10 questions on fully expanding single brackets with negative integers outside the brackets.
The resource will automatically mark students’ work and the teacher will be able to see their working in real time.
This a great resource for checking students understanding and correcting misconceptions.
This DESMOS resource has 10 questions that checks students’ understanding of completing the square and then solving.
The resource is great for formative assessment and will give the teacher feedback in real time on the understanding of the whole class.
Students need to know how to write exact values and in the last 2 examples need to fully simplify surds.
When the student types in their answer a graph will be drawn over a dotted curve, giving the student a visual representation of their answer. When they type in the correct roots a tick will appear on the graph.
You may need to remind the students to type in the roots into the correct cell in the table.
This DESMOS resource has, 10 questions that check students’ understanding of fully expanding two brackets.
Students’ show all of their working out before giving their answer and the teacher can spot any misconceptions instantly and help correct any mistakes.
The resource gives the students and teacher instant feedback. Great for
formative assessment.
You MUST have a Desmos and Google account, if the resource is to be used in class, the students must have access to a computer.
This DESMOS resource has 9 questions that check students’ understanding of solving quadratic equations by factorising.
The resource gives the students and teacher instant feedback. Great for formative assessment.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving rounding to either decimal places or significant figures.
The activity also has a worksheet at the end (answers provided) as a additional resource.
There are 20 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving dividing by powers of 10.
The resource includes a worksheet linked to the bingo (including teacher answer sheet).
There are 20 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving order of operation (BIDMAS or BODMAS).
The activity also includes a worksheet linked to the bingo (answers provided on separate page).
There are 20 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving multiplying and dividing by powers of 10
There are 24 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving finding the number bonds to 1
There are 20 different questions. Great activity for weaker students. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.
Collection of fun bingos consentrating on testing students ability to recall number bonds.
Number bonds to 1.
Number bonds to 10.
Number bonds to 100.
Number bonds to 1000.
Starter activity in PowerPoint involving simplifying ratios.
There are 21 different questions of varying degrees of difficulty. All question slides have animated answers.
How to play
Get students to draw a 3x3 grid in their books, then select 9 numbers between 1 and 20 from the larger grid (NO REPEATS).
Select a student to answer a question (the answer is animated in when you next interact with the board) if they get it right, they get to cross off one of their numbers from their grid (any student with the same number can also cross off that number). Cross off all 9 and BINGO…they win. What do they win, you decide (I hand out pens sometimes or get the rest of the class to give a round of applause).
I’ve made it sound more complicated than it really is. This activity is great as a starter or as a plenary as well as testing prior knowledge.
Hope you like.