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Time flies. I realise that I’ve only uploaded one resource in the entire of 2023. That’s pretty bad going. I hope to be more productive in 2024.
This is a pretty simple resource about finding the gradient and y-intercept from an equation. But I wrote some nice questions.
Guess I’m just trying to get back into the swing of things.
These are lessons to be taken ‘off the shelf’. Each ppt contains an explanation, several different tasks, a problem solving task and a learning check. These require no printing.
One linear/One non linear : Full lesson. Includes exam questions.
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Was slightly against putting these up as it’s not a complete topic yet, and probably won’t be for a while.
These are lessons to be taken ‘off the shelf’. Each ppt contains an explanation, several different tasks, a problem solving task and a learning check. These require no printing.
Expanding double brackets: I’ve used grid
Factorising : I have tried to use some advice from the Dan Meyer blog If Math(s) is the asprin, what is the headache? I’ve seen Dan Meyer speak. He was brilliant. I recommend following his blog. PowerPoint includes quadratics with [latex]a>0[/latex]. Was pretty proud of the problem solving task on this one.
These are lessons to be taken ‘off the shelf’. Each ppt contains an explanation, several different tasks, a problem solving task and a learning check. These require no printing.
Tried to add in lots of visual sequences here.
Finding the next term: Can be rather boring, so lots of questions where there’s ‘gaps’. For instance 8, __, __, 14.
Term to term rules: I’ve used a bit advanced notation here. I don’t know how to teach this better. Comment below if you do.
nth term: I go for the ‘write your nth term and compare’ route.
Generating a sequence from an nth term: Substitution, basically, innit. I’ve tried to add in some horrible sequences to generate from to make students think including fractional ones and shape ones.
Quadratic nth term: Concentrating on why halving the second difference works
ProjectALessons
These are lessons to be taken ‘off the shelf’. Each ppt contains an explanation, several different tasks, a problem solving task and a learning check. These require no printing.
I will tweek the animations on these when I do them again. I think the questions are also a bit…lame. There’s a few sections where the questions don’t really increase in difficulty or change form too much.
Inequality Notation: Edited in March 2019 to separate it from solving inequalities. Added lots more stuff and redrew all the number lines.
Solving Inequalities : New for March 2019. Separated it out. Now lots more rigorous and lots more and better questions asked.
Compound inequalities: Even bigger (31 slides). Includes writing, linking into writing error intervals. Also includes solving compound inequalities.
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These are lessons to be taken ‘off the shelf’. Each ppt contains an explanation, several different tasks, a problem solving task and a learning check. These require no printing.
Writing expressions: I always find this hard to teach. I’ve tried to be very explicit with the teaching. Dunno if I’ve been successful.
Collecting like terms: When I come to edit this, I will definitely add something about deciding which terms are ‘like’. A little whiteboard quiz or something.
Substitution: Lots of practice. Some links back to nth term, which I think is important. Some worded questions. I seem to remember this taking me ages. Don’t know if it’s good or I’m lazy.
Expanding one bracket: I’ve used grid here. Unsure about how I feel about that. Did start with talking about expanding brackets with no algebra, though. Which I feel good about.
Factoring: Always difficult to teach.
Function Machines: I think I spent more time animating the little puffs of smoke from the machines then I did thinking about question progression. Might not be my best work.
I’ve got a rearranging PowerPoint I’m halfway through creating that will go here at some point.
Vary and twist
Collecting Like Terms : Variation theory mixed with a little bit of spaced practice.
Substitution variation grids : Can’t work out if I like these or they’re confusing. Students fill in a 5 by 5 grid for a variety of expressions. Supposed to reveal underlying patterns.
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ProjectALessons
These are lessons to be taken ‘off the shelf’. Each ppt contains an explanation, several different tasks, a problem solving task and a learning check. These require no printing.
These were the first ‘ProjectALessons’ I did, so the quality may not be as great as some others.
I think I will edit these with ideas in Ed Southall’s ‘Yes but why?’ book and the Dani Quinn Mr Barton Maths podcast. She starts with equations like [latex]2.3 + x = 1.5[/latex] or similar, so students cannot do them by inspection and MUST use balance, even for ‘easy’ questions. Each lesson here could easily be two with support materials.
Unknowns on one side only: Ronseal.
Unknowns on both sides: I’ve tried to add lots of examples.
Solving equations with brackets: Brackets on one side and brackets on both sides.
Equations with fractions: Probably needs more questions at the higher end.
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