These sites contain helpful hints and tips about Maths, including some great puzzles and problem solving activities to help you hone your numeracy skills.
Nrich - Specialists in Rich Mathematics - This website has a difference focus every month, with problems and puzzles that match that theme. You can email them with your solutions. For September, their focus is Communicating and Reflecting.
Minus Plus Project - This website, originally created for schools in the Liverpool area, contains hints, tips, worksheets and games, along with a list of useful Maths related websites.
GCSE Maths Revision Site - This website is specifically aimed at those taking the higher tier Maths paper (there is no longer an intermediate paper available), with topic specific revision notes and a forum to ask questions if you are really stuck!
Dr Zargle's GCSE Answers - This website sells past papers and exemplar answers to go with them, either via download or on a CD. Their testimonials are excellent.
BBC News Maths Test - Maybe this is one for the parents! How would you fare on a GCSE Maths paper today? Test yourself with this seven question quiz. (I scored 6/7 - but two of those were very lucky guesses!)
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Extension Activity of the Week - 9
This week: Puzzling
This is a good one for gauging the level members of your classes are working at early on, when data might be scarce (oh, that such a situation should ever exist!) and your knowledge of the pupils somewhat lacking.
Set a puzzle based on some information from the textbook they are working with, or from anything you have on display. The puzzle should involve the pupils looking over the information and drawing conclusions from it. Offer a reward for those whose answers are best.
This extension activity has the double advantage of being both a way of stretching the top end, and a way of encouraging the class to complete their tasks.
For example, from a double page spread in a Geography textbook, which contained maps and information demonstrating why the southwest is warmer in both the summer and the winter, I set year 7 pupils the following extension question:
Why is the southwest the best place to live?
The weakest students came up with the answer, “The weather is good.”
The middle ability students came up with the answer, “The weather is warmer in the summer because we are nearer the equator in the southwest.”
The brightest students were able to add to this, by explaining how the mid-Atlantic drift worked.
This is a good one for gauging the level members of your classes are working at early on, when data might be scarce (oh, that such a situation should ever exist!) and your knowledge of the pupils somewhat lacking.
Set a puzzle based on some information from the textbook they are working with, or from anything you have on display. The puzzle should involve the pupils looking over the information and drawing conclusions from it. Offer a reward for those whose answers are best.
This extension activity has the double advantage of being both a way of stretching the top end, and a way of encouraging the class to complete their tasks.
For example, from a double page spread in a Geography textbook, which contained maps and information demonstrating why the southwest is warmer in both the summer and the winter, I set year 7 pupils the following extension question:
Why is the southwest the best place to live?
The weakest students came up with the answer, “The weather is good.”
The middle ability students came up with the answer, “The weather is warmer in the summer because we are nearer the equator in the southwest.”
The brightest students were able to add to this, by explaining how the mid-Atlantic drift worked.
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