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Tag: simultaneous equations

  • Venn Diagrams and Simultaneous Equations

    Download the PowerPoint and Worksheet here

    Just a quick one this week.

    I’ve been reading Michael Pershan’s Teaching Maths With Examples this week. It’s really good. I recommend it. Quick, simple and easily digestible. Great stuff.

    In the book, Michael describes using Venn Diagrams to give an overview of what, exactly, we mean when we talk about systems of equations. This really made me sit up, because I think students often don’t quite know what systems of equations ARE. They can procedurally solve them, but sometimes struggle to get a big picture of what they’re doing.

    This resource aims to give the big picture, the WHY, before moving onto the HOW to solve.

    So we do this by trial and error, then you swoop in and show students a more formal, better method for finding these answers.

    I hope you like it and find it useful.

    As always, feedback to @ticktockmaths on Twitter.

  • Simultaneous Equations

    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.

    One linear/One non linear : Full lesson. Includes exam questions.

    Practice

    Assess

  • Quadratic Simultaneous Equations

    Here is a lesson on Non-linear simultaneous equations. Three example problem pairs. Some questions. Something a bit more problem solve-y. 5 timed questions. Some exam questions. It’s quite basic, really.

    I know I haven’t posted much recently.

    I will try and post some more stuff.

    There’s a big difference between stuff to make for myself and stuff to publish. I usually just find some questions and paste them in for myself. Writing the questions and getting this up to snuff for publishing took a good couple of hours, and it’s quite a basic lesson.

    PS I recently subscribed to MathsPad and it’s really good.