Improving on a grade C
The last of the March exams will soon be over (*you will hear the nations maths teachers breathe a sigh of relief at 10:45 […]
March 2013
February 2013
Exchange rates – functional revision task
I found a past exam question that was worth a whopping 7 marks in relation to exchange rates (unlike the usual 3 to 4 […]
Electricity Bill revision task
I know a lot of teachers don’t explicitly teach the mechanics of calculating a meter reading style bill, such as the type of […]
Revision & Functional skills task …
Its all been a bit busy this week, and with the exams next week this post will be brief. Lets call it […]
Exam Questions by topic – averages from a list
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 […]
Apple pies are too … new w/sheet
Here’s the partner worksheet (here) for the one on the post earlier – for when teaching area of a circle – the students are […]
Cherry pie’s delicious … new w/sheet
This style of worksheet is proving to be really popular, and are great as a starter or plenary.
Two new exam Qs by topic
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 […]
Speed dating … averages lesson
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 […]
Exam questions by topic
I know it isn’t what really happens, but in the deepest darkest months of the year it sometimes feels like “Teach – test – […]
