I made this for my low ability EAL Year 7 class who had NO PREVIOUS ALGEBRA KNOWLEDGE, AAAGH!! First they calculate answers to word problems, showing their working. Then they are given a structure to help them make the formula. Letters and numbers are highlighted to help with identification. Ties in to Key Maths 7 Chapter 9. Worked well with my class, they did everything on the mini whiteboard before writing on the book.

These are two spreadsheets I have made for tracking in KS3. One is by unit which allows you to put in NC grades e.g. 4+,4-,3 for various pieces of work in a unit aswell as effort grades (in my school this is 1 to 5). The other one is by criteria where you only put in NC grades for pieces of work for up to 6 criteria. At the end it gives averages for each criteria, the 6th one has a 50% weighting. With either spreadsheet just hide any columns that you don´t need. The golden rules sheet is something I made for the staff who had lass experience with Excel.

I made this lesson to help my pupils improve their graph drawing and interpretation skills. It also helps them to understand the difference between correlation and causation. The lesson is based around an individual investigation into the correlation between two factors with other group/pair activities to assimilate the vocabulary. Key words: pattern, relationship, trend, scatter graph, prediction, correlation, positive correlation, negative correlation, no correlation, causation, increase (v), decrease (v), axis/axes, title, units, line of best fit, anomalous, cause (v), variables (v) indicates a verb