TickTockMaths

Tag: division

  • A mountain of updates

    So I had some free time last week and I decided to get some resources made/updated and published. Last week I published:

    This year I’m going to try harder to get closer to more coverage with some of my slides. It’s a bit spotty at the moment. I’m going to be filling in gaps and getting stuff published, even if that stuff isn’t groundbreaking.

    It’s always been in my eye to get full coverage up to GCSE. But that is a HUGE undertaking. It really makes you realise how CRAMMED with content the GCSE is, and how it does need scaling back a bit.

    I’m closing in on Grade 1 full coverage. I just need to get some ordering negatives, multiplying negatives, coordinates and pictogram slides done. I know there’s no such thing as ‘grade 1 topics’, but I’m finding the Maths Genie list of topics useful and I’m working from that.

    Anyway, I hope some of this is useful to some of you.

    Rich

  • Division of algebraic fractions

    Download the PowerPoint here.

    I know this is usually covered in multiplying as one lesson, but I think there’s room to slow down.

    Example problem pair


    A card sort! (kinda). The idea here is that you don’t need to cut the cards out, just project them and ask the kids to copy them down in the right order. Suppose you could print and use a card sort.

    Card sorts were in fashion for a bit. So were Tarsias. Then they went out of fashion. I love a Mathsloop.

    They are difficult in terms of behaviour and making sure that all children are engaged. I’m really lucky in my current school that the pupils are awesome. Give them a task and they’ll try their best.

    I still think there’s value in getting kids to talk to each other about the mathematics. Varied diet and all that.

    There’s also another task and an applied problem and a learning check.