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Secondary maths : Fibonacci numbers |
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Secondary maths : accuracy of measurements |
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Secondary maths : straight-line graphs |
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Secondary maths : collaborative memory |
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Great lesson ideas ; 1-5
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This fun and active maths lesson for Key Stage 3 students involves measuring, estimating and calculating, and contains a great lesson idea for use in lesson planning. |
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Maths teacher Asnat Doza explains how her year 7 class works through a series of envelopes, each containing a prepared activity about Fibonacci numbers and sequences. Each group moves from one activity to the next at their own pace and the pupils do most of the work, while Asnat works the room to check progress and understanding. Asnat, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, finds that her pupils enjoy working together to solve the problems she's set them, which gives her time to observe the learning that's taking place and to witness the mathematical curiosity that this lesson encourages. |
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Maths teacher Mark Dawes gets his year 8 students to choose some non-standard units to measure things in and around their classroom. After measuring the height of the door in pencil cases, the width of the whiteboard in shoes, and the length of the corridor in Bens, the class comes to some conclusions about the bounds of accuracy that can realistically be claimed for different units of measurement. Mark, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, trusts his pupils to behave responsibly while they slide their classmates along the corridor to measure how long it is, and he feels this is a memorable and enjoyable lesson which tackles a difficult mathematical concept. |
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Maths teacher Kathryn Hurrell sets up this kinaesthetic activity to help her lower ability year 9 pupils understand straight-line graphs. She gives groups of pupils some simple y=mx+c equations; then they work out pairs of suitable coordinates and stand at that point within a large scale set of axes on the classroom carpet. By doing this, they start to appreciate what their graph should look and feel like, and how its slope changes with the different equations they ve been given. Kathryn, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, explains that any classroom management issues this activity might raise through pupils moving around the room are outweighed by its value as a practical and effective lesson that they ll easily remember when they re thinking about graphs and gradients. |
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Maths teacher Susanne Mallett shows a simple memory game she uses to get her year 8 pupils to work together to explore mathematical equations. Pupils from each group have four 15-second opportunities to look at and memorise a printed sheet of related diagrams and equations. The groups then have to reproduce the information they ve seen on the sheet for themselves. The principle behind the activity is that the sheet is easier to reproduce by using mathematical insight than by trying to remember the whole thing cold . Susanne, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, feels that with clear behaviour ground rules, her pupils enjoy active lessons like this; and it's a technique she finds works well with a wide range of age groups and mathematical topics. |
| General note | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Other forms | Previously released as DVD. |
| Language | This edition in English. |
| Genre/form | Instructional television programs. |
