“Mastering” the March 2013 H papers …

UPDATED 6th June 2013 There have been some interesting tweets and blogs recently about students inability to recall prior learning after a period of time and some people would suggest that students should (or shouldn’t) move on with their learning once they have “mastered” a topic or keep working on it, until they have  “got … Read more

Solutions …

A recent tweet from Tom Riley (@riley_ed) reminded me that I’ve been meaning to blog (I’ve been all over the place for the last couple of weeks!!) about the worked solutions we’ll be doing for any future resources I put on the website. I know as a teacher when you have a great resource, sometimes … Read more

Transformation – Collective Memory

I know I posted this morning, but this is my usual mid-week “bullet-point” blog. Last week I updated a match card activity for transformations (which is ace I might add!) and today I’ve ended up designing 4 collective memory posters for transformations, which can also be used for homework, exit cards or plenary activities … whatever … Read more

Transformations .. doing and describing …

I’ve had a raggedy old set of match cards that I drew by hand a couple of years ago, and they are one of my favourite “go – to” resources, but looking very shoddy … so I’ve given them a facelift. One of my classes is going to start next term with transformations and  my new shiny … Read more

Pi day … March 14th

A bit of a cliché for pi day is to teach something circle related, so I guess that means I’m a cliché. I’m going to start the lessons with the circumference version (here) of one of my “Follow me” worksheets and then I’m putting together a “whodunnit” worksheet working up to finding the radius and … Read more

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 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

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. 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

Read all about it!

WOW!!! We’ve made the news.  Check it out … here … Chuffed to bits to see lots of our resources featured. What started off as us sharing resources through the blog has shown that there is a demand for innovative resources, rather than a plain old worksheet. Make sure you check in regularly as we are in … Read more

Do people not teach this topic? Length, Area and Volume Scale Factors

I have been teaching one of my groups the relationship between length, area and volume scale factors. Yesterday they grasped the fact that the area and volume is not scaled up by the same factor as the lengths of the sides. Today I wanted to move them onto being able to find the length or area … Read more

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