This morning I’ve finished marking my year 11 mocks (well! I say finished … I mean I’ve marked the non calculator paper … the 2nd paper isn’t until Monday) and whilst overall they are pretty good, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do some deliberate practice with them to keep the “bread and butter” topics fresh in the minds of these groups – they’re the ones that have been doing past papers as homework (Homework and AFL). That seems to be having an impact with those students for which homework is done regularly. However, there are certain students in these two groups, that when they hand the homework in, it’s obvious that they have done something but nowhere near enough for my liking – it’s also never that little that I can follow it up with  any consequences.
So this morning I’ve decided I want something that I can give them as a starter EVERY lesson but which over a series of weeks gets progressively harder, BUT has the same type of questions, so that they can refer back to the previous week for hints if they need a hint … basically I want something that forces them (for want of a better phrase) to do some deliberate practice. I have spent some time looking and came across Mr Collins’ Table Sheets and I would have loved to have been able to use them, but they just didn’t fit the bill as I suspect they are better suited for more than the 5-10 minutes that I want to devote to it (they are seriously brilliant though!). Basically I want something short and sweet that doesn’t dominate the rest of the lesson, but don’t necessarily want to “teach” these topics as discrete lessons, just get the students to regularly practice them!
Next weeks starters for year 11s will then consist of 1 of these sheets per lesson, so every week they will get the same 30 topics, and then next weekend I will use the templates to change the questions slightly and build in some progression over time too – I’m going to get them to swap sheets and put the answers on the screen too so that the whole thing isn’t going to take over my lesson (I do expect the first lesson to take longer than subsequent starters). I’ve shown the sheets in the pic above and the links to the w/sheets are below. I’ve also put together a little table (HERE IT IS-> Student Record)  for them to stick in the front of their books to record their marks every lesson .. lets see if this “little but often” approach has an impact on these topics when we do the next (and final … eeek!!) assessment ** not holding my breath **
APRIL 2015 – I’ve been making some “crusts” that include AO2/AO3 style questions … they’ve already been put in the teacher toolkit on JustMaths Online too!
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Week 1 Lesson 1 W/sheet 1.1. Here
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Week 1 Lesson 2 W/Sheet 1.2 here
- Week 1 Lesson 3 W/sheet  1.3 here
- The Crusts – with AO2/AO3 questions Week 1 Lesson 4 W/sheet  1.4 here
- The Crusts – with AO2/AO3 questions  Week 1 Lesson 5 W/sheet  1.5 here
I’ve made a couple of changes (1) I’ve added a little number to the top right of each sheet signifying the week/lesson it relates to i.e. 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 and (3) I’ve included 2 identical sheets so that you can print “2 to a page” and then photocopy them, as an A4 sheet for each student just seems extravagant, alternatively you can just print as normal and print page 1.
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Week 2 Lesson 1 W/sheet 2.1 here
- Week 2 Lesson 2 W/sheet 2.2 here
- Week 2 Lesson 3 W/sheet 2.3 here
- The Crusts – with AO2/AO3 questions  Week 2 Lesson 4 W/sheet 2.4 HERE
- The Crusts – with AO2/AO3 questions Week 2 Lesson 5 W/sheet  2.5 here
- The Crusts – with AO2/AO3 questions  Week 2 Lesson 5 (with hints) W/sheet  2.5 WITH HINTS
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- Week 4 Lesson 1 W/sheet here  (NB – it doesn’t ask for a key on the stem & leaf but I’d expect them to do it anyway!)
- Week 4 Lesson 2 W/sheet here
- Week 4 Lesson 3 W/sheet here
Some of the below have all been sent to me by Carole Sharp on behalf of the Northern United Learning Academies – she has basically cajoled persuaded loads of fab maths teachers across these schools to produce more of the “bread and butter” worksheets, and so (as the song goes) “with a little help from my friends” it just indicates how we can produce so much more with collaboration and so many people are benefitting from these worksheets. You will notice that for a couple of the sheets I’ve done alternative versions as I wanted to “tweak them” … don’t ask!
                                           Week 5 Lesson 1 W/sheet here            Alternative Week 5 Lesson 1 here                                        Â
                                           Week 5 Lesson 2 W/sheet here                                        Â
                                           Week 5 Lesson 3 W/sheet here                                       Â
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                                           Week 6 Lesson 1 W/sheet here            Alternative Week 6 Lesson 1 here                                                                               Â
                                           Week 6 Lesson 2 W/sheet here                                        Â
                                           Week 6 Lesson 3 W/sheet hereÂ
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                                           Week 7 Lesson 1 W/sheet here                                         Week 8 Lesson 1 W/sheet here
                                         Week 7 Lesson 2 W/sheet here                                         Week 8 Lesson 2 W/sheet here
                                           Week 7 Lesson 3 W/sheet here                                        Week 8 Lesson 3 W/sheet here
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                                           Week 9 Lesson 1 W/sheet here                                        Week 10 Lesson 1 W/sheet here
                                           Week 9 Lesson 2 W/sheet here                                          Week 10 Lesson 2 W/sheet here
                                           Week 9 Lesson 3 W/sheet here                                        Week 10 Lesson 3 W/sheet here
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                                           Week 11 Lesson 1 W/sheet here                                         Week 12 Lesson 1 W/sheet here
                                           Week 11 Lesson 2 W/sheet here                                         Week 12 Lesson 2 W/sheet here
                                           Week 11 Lesson 3 W/sheet here                                        Week 12 Lesson 3 W/sheet here                                           Â
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                                           Week 13 Lesson 1 W/sheet here                                         NEW Week 14 Lesson 1 W/sheet here
                                           NEW Week 13 Lesson 2 W/sheet here                             NEW Week 14 Lesson 2 W/sheet here
                                           NEW Week 13 Lesson 3W/sheet here                              NEW Week 14 Lesson 3W/sheet here
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                                           NEW Week 15 Lesson 1 W/sheet here                             NEW Week 16 Lesson 1 W/sheet here
                                           NEW Week 15 Lesson 2 W/sheet here                             NEW Week 16 Lesson 2 W/sheet here
                                           NEW Week 15 Lesson 3W/sheet here                              NEW Week 16 Lesson 3W/sheet here
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                                           NEW Week 17 Lesson 1 W/sheet here                             NEW Week 18 Lesson 1 W/sheet here
                                           NEW Week 17 Lesson 2 W/sheet here                             NEW Week 18 Lesson 2 W/sheet here
                                           NEW Week 17 Lesson 3W/sheet here                              NEW Week 18 Lesson 3W/sheet here
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