MathsClass

Things are tough at my school at the moment, tougher than normal. There are many reasons for that, this is not the post to discuss them though.

For Australian teachers with access to objects from The Le@rning Federation, the resource Bridge Builder is a nice way to deal with geometric patterns and finding the algebraic rule.

It’s that time of year again… that’s right… Year 8 solving equations.

Each year for the Term 3 SDD (Staff Development Day), the four schools (three 7-10 and one 11-12) in the collegiate I work in get together for a combined program.

In recent years, Sydney Water has been encouraging households to save water. “With limited and highly variable rainfall in the catchments, the community can no longer rely on water from the dams.” source

The end of term series of posts are some of the most popular on this site.

This is a resource for skills in working with time.

I’ve been trying to increase my use of the laptops with Year 9.

In the NSW Mathematics Syllabus students are to learn about “rounding numbers to a specified number of significant figures” [NS5.2.1].

This is a fairly simple activity that allows for something different in the teaching of Pythagoras’ Theorem.

Here’s a quick starter activity for rounding.

How do you make a unit on percentages richer / project-based / engaging / authentic?

Starting Algebra with Year 8, we spend a couple of lessons on various “algebraic techniques”. I’ve been trying to find some activities which provide a little more engagement. I created “The Land of Algerb“ to explain multiplying pronumerals.

In 2009, Year 9 got their DER netbooks and now they are in Year 10. This year’s Year 9 does not have their netbooks yet, and so this gives teachers a little time to get their heads around the inclusion of netbooks into the classroom. This year, I’m teaching a 5.2 pathway Year 10 class (and a Year 9 5.2 class).

Some chocolate discussion starters for looking at bar graphs: a series of chocolate bar graphs.