week beginning 1st July

Tuesday Lesson - Continue with 'Fractions of and % of type questinos from last week - all details lessons, activities in last weeks blog

Weds - AHH Taking lesson

Thurs / Friday - exercises from E-Text Foundation book on  number work-
3 - Fractions, Decimals and percentages
4 - Fractons, Decimals and percentages(2)
5 - Fractions Decimals and Percentages(3)
7 - Multiplying and Dividing by 10,100 etc 
8 - Multiplication and Division
9 Use of Calculator
10 - Types of Numbers
11 - Personal and Household Finance

Students to work thorugh each page of questoins then use answers provided to check their work, correcting any errors.

Week Beginning 24th June - Fractions - Decimals - percentages and Fractions of..., % of question

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Discover how to write a number in three different ways - Fractions/ Decimals/ Percentages.
The discover how to solve questions - Fractions of..., percentage of....

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to convert between fractions / decimals and percentages and also be able to find fractions of an amount or percentage of an amount

ENAGAGEMENT ACTIVITY: Starter of the Day Fractions Order

LESSON:
Fractions and Decimals Lesson
Simple Equivalent Fractions
Equivalent Fractions lesson
Frac Dec Perc Lesson 1
Frac Dec Perc Lesson 2
Percentages of 1
Percentages of 2
Fractions of Lesson


Worksheets

Are these equvalent
Equivalent Fractions
Simplifying Fractions
Percentages of a number
Percentages of a larger number

Week Beginning 17th June - Time Problems and Converting between units of time,

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Understand how to convert between different units of time and how to solve problems involving time.

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You wll be able to convert between units of time and solve time problems

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY: Millenium TIme Problems (81)

STARTER: Weds Page 50 of Foundation e-text Book
STARTER Thursday:

Convert the following into Days, Hours and Minutes:

1. 1,500 Minutes = 25 hours - 1day & 1hour

2. 4,000 Minutes =  66 hours & 40 mins = 2 days 18 hours & 40 mins
3. 5,350 Minutes = 89 hours & 10 mins= 3 days 17 hours and 10 mins
4. 10,000 seconds = 166  mins 40 secs =  2 hours 46 mins 40 secs 

LESSON: Discuss units of time  - Secs, mins, hours, days, weeks.... and how to convert one into another. Get students to create their own  staircase to convert.

Online Conversion Tool

Convert the following into Days, Hours, mins, secs
1. January and March
2. 3 weeks
3. 1.5 weeks

Convert the following into minutes
1. 2 days
2. 12 hours 35 mins
3. from 04:15 to 17:05

How may seconds are there in:
1. 2 days
2. 5 hours
3. between 9:00am and 1:35 pm

How many days have you been alive

Tues 11th/Fri 14th - QWC Questions, Rounding and estimating

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To develop Rounding and Estimating skills and also Look at QWC Questions

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to use rounding to estimate the solution to problems and also understand how to tackle multi step questions that expect you to explain all the stages of your work.

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY: Use the questions from this Mymaths Lesson

LESSON: Reminder on rounding numbers to nearest whole number, 10, 100 thousand....
Explain Significant figures

Use rounding to 1sf to find approximate answers to solutions

Estimating answers  to calculations
Estimating problems

PLENARIES: Checking answers, support to individuals / small groups at their desks, Stopping whole class and consolidating where necessary. Estimating Games

Week Beginning - 20th April 2013 - Exam Paper Revision

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To gain experience and expertise in answering exam questions

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will gain a minimum of your target grade in the foundation Maths Paper

LESSON: Students work through a maths paper answering as many questions as they possibly can.
Then they can mark their own paper using the mark scheme provided.
Corrections and omissions can then be looked at in pairs / groups / as a class/ with me.

Mon 15th April - Fractions Review

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To review and use equivalent fractions to sort and add fractions with different denominators.

SUCCESS CRITERIA: YOu will be able to add and sort fractions with different denominators

STARTER: Fraction snake

LESSON: ON IWB Using Fraction tool from echalk as an aid, look at putting two fractions in order of size.

Give students some examples to do themselves. Extend to three fractions, with examples for them to complete

Look at adding fractions using equivalences, then lots of examples to try


PLENARY: Checking studrent answers, support at their desks.
Ordering Fractions Worksheet Generator

Week Beginning 11th March - Exam PAper Revision

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To gain experience and expertise in answering exam questions

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will gain a minimum of your target grade in the foundation Maths Paper

LESSON: Students work through a maths paper answering as many questions as they possibly can.
Then they can mark their own paper using the mark scheme provided.
Corrections and omissions can then be looked at in pairs / groups / as a class/ with me.