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Expanding and Simplifying Expressions with Brackets
Differentiated Worksheet with answers
Recall Starter of collecting like terms
Covers GCSE Expand and Simplify Questions, including where second bracket has negatives. Plenary leads to factorising (you can find that lesson on here too!)
Area /Perim/ Volume Codebreakers
Group Challenge Lesson on Area, Volume etc.
Students work in groups of 3/4. Collective memory style task to start, then answer questions...submit codes on sheet. Review three times during lesson.
Self assessment towards end of lesson whilst you check the scores...plenary..review their self assessment and any questions that proved difficult to answer
Top Tip: Freeze your IWB or hide excel as you enter the scores to build the suspense and review progress after each time you mark.
Maths Taboo Template
A 2 page, easily customisable taboo starter / plenary activity. Change the keyword and make the forbidden words as hard or easy as you need to suit the group. 32 cards should be enough!
Straight Line Graphs
A nice open ended worksheet for L6/7 students to recap Graphs at the end of a topic.
Students can start at any point on the wheel according to their confidence levels
Starts at plotting from a table of values, through calculating Gradients, then Gradient intercept richt upto finding an equation given tow co-ordinates.
Multiplication - Surds, Indices, Algebra, Directed
Grid style puzzles to assess key skill / revise
There are 6 / 8 versions of the same puzzle on each sheet. Tougher problems take out the information in the grid and students have to work backwards to find the missing term or number.
Straight Line Graphs - Alien Zapping
Students have to 'zap' as many aliens as they can by drawing three straight lines and writing their equations.
Sheets can either be laminated for multi-use or a purchase of some spaghetti allows students to experiment before they commit pen to paper!
Codebreakers
1. You need 8 groups.
2. Start with Smart file, then open xls scoresheet
3. Hand out envelopes
4. Stop after 5 mins (freeze IWB)
5. Enter codes 1-3 and review progress - cells turn green if correct on xls
6. Allow 15 Mins
7. Enter codes 4-10 plus corrections
8. Allow 5-10 mins for corrections and final 3 q's
9. Take in scoresheets, students complete a self assessment of topic (levels, targets)
10. Present Results
Plenary: open the box / review trickier questions (they will have some red against them!) - students reflect on targets and progress.
Enjoy
Algebra Blockbusters
Set pairs (or two students and a singleton!) against each other to work their way across this Algebra revision board in the style of blockbusters. Can be laminated and written on or give students two alternate coloured highlighter pens, which gives you a visible guide as to their progress.