Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Thurs Sep 22nd - Use Practice paper to revise areas of weakness


LEARNING OBJECTIVE: TO revise weaker areas of Syllabus from mistakes and omissions from the practice paper

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to answer similar questions in future test papers.

STARTER:

  1. What is the approximate answer to this sum (3.52 x 1.92)÷8.76
  2. A function machine has two operations – times 3 then subtract 5. What input number gives and output 5 times greater.
  3. If x = 5, y = -4, z = -2 what is 3(x - y)÷ z
  4. If 23.3 x 4.5 = 104.85. What is
    1. 104.85 ÷ 4.5
    2. 233 x 0.45
    3. 23.3 x 6.5
LESSON:

Unit 2 Higher – Practice Paper Set 1

Question 6. Reminder of how to find LCM and HCF of Two or more numbers



Question 7: Percentage Increase

REMEMBER: Difference / Original x 100

Starting weight 5 kg One month later weighed 6.5 kg. What is Percentage Increase?



Question 8. ALGEBRA and BODMAS and Expanding a quadratic (Multiplying two brackets together – lots of examples



Question 9: Another Example

Rule to find next term is:

    Multiply by three then subtract K. The second term is 11 and the fourth term is 83.

1st
2nd
3rd
4th
?
11
83
What is the first term



Question 10: Reminder of graphs



Question 11: Reminder of rules of indices, Lots of examples on IWB



Question 12 – Algebraic Fractions. Reminder of addition of fractions then move to Algebraic Fractions



Question 13: reminder of Standard Index Form with lots of examples to try



Question 14: Rearrange formulae – leave for another FULL lesson



Question 15: Work through Exam question then have a go at this

    x2 + ax – 4 (x – 2)2 - b


Question 16 & 17 Leave for another lesson



Grade Boundaries for this Exam

43602    H Grade
Max. mark
A* 
A 
B 
C 
D 
Boundary Mark 
66 
49 
41 
31
22 
15 


PLENARY: Check on confidence now –



Unit 2 Higher – Practice Paper Set 1

Thurs 22nd Sep – Reflections on graph, horizontal and vertical lines on a graph

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: You will discover how to describe horizontal and vertical lines on a graph and then use them as mirror lines

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to name horizontal and vertical lines with their equation and use them to complete reflections

STARTER: You have 10 mins to Draw a reflection for someone on these blank grids (use the diagonal grids), and then try and draw the image of someone else's drawing. You can ONLY colour in whole squares.

Reflections on a graph. Work through this MyMthas Lesson. Use the on screen questions repeatedly to give lots of practice. Let students use these blanks to help answer on screen questions

If time work through Question 4 onwards on page 393 of GCSE Foundation Text Book.

PLENARY: Checking answers to reflections, using answer feedback from MyMthas lesson with students

Monday, 19 September 2011

Tues 20th Sep – Place Value and ordering large numbers

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Undestand how to say large numbers and use commas to help. Use this to help put lists of large numbers into order

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to:

  1. Say large numbers
  2. Put a list of large numbers into order
  3. Understand whether a number is in the units, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, 100 thousand or millions column

STARTER: Watch (and sing along to) this Video

LESSON: On your grids write these numbers in the correct places.

  1. Three million two hundred and twenty six thousand five hundred and twenty seven
  2. Seven million, three hundred and eighty thousand, nine hundred and thirty two
  3. Six hundred and fifty five thousand nine hundred and thirty one
  4. Nine million, three hundred and twenty seven
  5. Thirty two million, eight hundred and forty seven thousand, four hundred and seven
  6. Two million, three hundred and five thousand, seven hundred and sixty


     

    Put each of these lists of numbers into order – smallest first

List 1

345

657

876

365

978

134

387

784

List 2

18,897

34, 567

17, 897

21, 786

16, 786

23, 894

16, 786

19, 491

List 3

123, 567

896, 345

674, 674

243, 675

143, 675

275, 786

354, 543

132, 864

List 4

1,234,685

1, 564, 345

1, 675, 564

1, 897, 564

1, 023,786

1, 007, 675

1, 123, 004

1, 708,004

List 5

678

3,245

2, 786

1, 345, 675

234, 678

23, 786

1, 000,087

230,004

Tues 20th Sep: Interpreting information from a two way table

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Learn how to read and interpret data from a two way table

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to interpret data from a two way table and use it to explain answers to questions

STARTER: Can you complete the questions on page 79 of GCSE FOUNDATION TEXT book on page 79

LESSON: Discussion of correct answers: The use screens 6, 7 & 8 to develop the ideas opf two way tables, encouraging participation from the floor

Work through the questions on pages 80 and 81 of foundation text book.

PLENARY: Check answers from Back of Book. Test students with these two question. Answer on sheet – collecting for marking

Tues 20th Sep – Equation of line between two points and equation of a line parallel to a given line Through a given coordinate

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Use the skills in gradient, intercepts to find the equation of lines, including parallel lines, from given coordinates

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to:

  1. Find the equation of a line from two given coordinates
  2. Find the equation of a parallel

STARTER: Answer the first six questions on This sheet

LESSON: What is the equation of the line parallel to y = 3x + 4, that passes through the point (2,8)

Try the rest of the questions on this Sheet

EXTENSION: Try these questions from yesterday and answer questions 6 onwards

PLENARY: Checking Answers.

Chapter Checklist for Five Finger Feedback

Level D

  1. Draw the graph of a line, such as y = 3x – 5 without being given a table of values
  2. Solve problems such as finding where the line y = 3x – 5 crosses the line y = 4

Level C

  1. Find the gradient of straight line graphs
  2. Find the midpoint of a line segment such as (1,5) and (3,7)

Level B

  1. Find the gradient and equation of a line through two points such as (0,3) and (5,13)
  2. Find the equation of a line parallel to another line, such as y = 3x – 5, passing through a given point.

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Mon Sep 19th – Tally Charts and Frequency Tables

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Discover how to use tally charts for discrete and grouped data

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to organise data into a tally chart and summarise the data in a frequency table

STARTER: Create a Tally chart of this data.

16, 22, 14, 12, 19, 23, 18, 21, 24, 29, 17

22, 17, 11, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 15, 17, 18

25, 16, 21, 20, 19, 15, 12, 14, 8, 11, 19

LESSON: Discuss the tally table from above data and how to present the info as a Frequency Table.

Repeat the tally chart using this Table

Number of words

TALLY

FREQUENCY

5 – 9

  

  

10 – 14

  

  

15 – 19

  

  

20 – 24

  

  

25 - 30

  

  

 
 

Discussion on the different tally charts

Work through these questions

PLENARY: Checking Answers, Five Finger Feedback on Confidence with Tally Charts and Frequency Tables

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Thurs 15th Sep – Oral SATS test and Maths Problems

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To Discover current maths level

SUCCESS CRITERIA: YOU will achieve or exceed your Key Stage 2 Maths Grade

First Half of Lesson work through SATS Oral Test

Second HALF of Lesson – Problem Solving

Use This Broken Calculator.

In your groups can you find as many different ways of making each of the answers on the grid.

For every solution your group has that NO other group has you will all receive a Maths Stamp

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Tues Sep 13th Data Collection methods

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: You are going to look at good questionnaire design

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will understand how to avoid biased, embarrassing and leading questions when designing a questionnaire

STARTER: Arrange the numbers

LESSON: Work through the first two screens of this Mymaths Lesson

Now Try and work through these questions

PLENARY: Discussion on answers to questions and correct answers

Monday, 12 September 2011

Tues Sep 13th Data Collection methods

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: You are going to look at good questionnaire design

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will understand how to avoid biased, embarrassing and leading questions when designing a questionnaire

STARTER: Arrange the numbers

LESSON: Work through the first two screens of this Mymaths Lesson

Now Try and work through these questions

PLENARY: Discussion on answers to questions and correct answers

Saturday, 10 September 2011

Mon Sep 12th – How to convert between fractions decimals and percentages

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: You will discover how to easily convert between fractions, decimals and percentages

SUCCESS CRITERIA:.

STARTER:  Fractions, Decimals Percentages Video, Reference Sheet. Use you reference sheet to help you answer the questions on the IWB

Use screens 2 & 3 as a starter exercise from this MyMthas Lesson (repeat the screens many times to look at lots of examples

LESSON: Work through the rest of the Mymaths Lesson (Do not do the matching grid – the last screen.

Now have a go at this worksheet

PLENARY: Check answers then use Screen 8 – matching grid around the class. Get five finger feedback on lesson.

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Thurs 8th Sep: Subtractions and Multiplication without a calculator

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To explore and practice methods for speeding up subtraction and multiplication in my head

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will get all(or most) of the questions correctly out of each set of 20

STARTER: Check answers to last set of questions we did yesterday

LESSON: Use Just In Time
Screens to practice subtracting and multiplying in your head.

Set 4: Subtracting 1 digit numbers – 4 secs – Check answers

Set 5: Subtracting two digit numbers-10 secs, Check Answers followed by discussion on techniques to speed up

Set six as set 2, Check answers – did you improve?

Set 7: Multiplication tables practice (up to 9 x) – 5 secs, Check Answers. Discussion on how to learn the difficult times tables – 6,7,8,9

Set 8: Multiplying a 1 digit number by a two digit number, check answers. Look at more questions like this and pause to get ways of doing them in your head from students

Maths Puzzle to leave them with – Don't Touch