I know a lot of teachers don’t explicitly teach the mechanics of calculating a meter reading style bill, such as the type of thing we receive as adults all TOO often, but many exam boards are using them as a way to introduce real- life scenarios into exams. The attached (here) is the second functional … Read more
Its all been a bit busy this week, and with the exams next week this post will be brief. Lets call it an “experiment in bullet point blogging”: 1. Can’t stop long … hope you’re well. Me? yeah I’m good, busy, but good. 2. Revision this morning … year 10 turnout good, year 11 not … Read more
Have added a new collection of exam questions from various exam boards (here) all on the topic of finding averages from a list (median, mode, mean and range). Primarily aimed at foundation but could be a useful homework/revision exercise for Higher students too with a long run to their next exam when time isn’t so precious … Read more
Here’s the partner worksheet (here) for the one on the post earlier – for when teaching area of a circle – the students are to work the answers out and by following them it spells out “Apple pies are too” which helps students to remember that : Area = pi x r2 Its also been added to our other resources on … Read more
This style of worksheet is proving to be really popular, and are great as a starter or plenary. I have put this specific one (here) together to use when teaching circumference of a circle – the students are to work the answers out and by following the answers it spells out “Cherry pie’s delicious” which helps … Read more
I have added two new topic collections of exam questions (from various exam boards) to the free stuff section – compound interest (in Number) and collecting like terms (in Algebra) . The latter is simple and more suited to Foundation students, but with this weeks publication of the consultation for the programme of study at KS4 … Read more
Going to try this tomorrow … wish me luck!! The idea is the group will be split into 1’s and 2’s sitting on opposite sides of desks (with the room in a horseshoe shape). Every student will be given a data sheet : and a question sheet and the idea is that they will be given 2 minutes … Read more
You’d think that the rules were being made up as we go along …. they are! Week 1 (it was week 1 for me) was Gandalf Week 2 was Star Wars AND standard form … here is my Top Trumps activity based on standard form with a Star Wars theme . I’ve loved making these kinds of activities … Read more
I know it isn’t what really happens, but in the deepest darkest months of the year it sometimes feels like “Teach – test – mark – teach – test –mark”. This is not a gripe about assessment or the amount we test out students as I genuinely think that we have the right balance, but … Read more
Less than a month ago, we started to tweet exam questions and answers as a way to get some of our harder to reach students to revise and about 2 weeks ago details of the twitter account were published on this blog. Today we reached a milestone of 100 followers (the 100th follower was @IAPSmaths) … Read more
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