5 Maths Gems #33

Hello too welcome to my 33^rd gems post. This is where I part 5 educational activity ideas I've seen on Twitter.

Well it's been fun educational activity inward this week's heatwave hasn't it?! I long for an air-conditioned classroom. Still, all this lovely sunshine serves equally a overnice reminder that the summertime holidays are but roughly the corner.

1. Pythagoras Pile Up
We've all seen the fantastic #mathsconf4 I was fortunate to bespeak heed a fantastic persuasion for educational activity Fractions, Decimals too Percentages from Number Resources page.

This calendar week @solvemymaths shared a actually overnice persuasion for educational activity estimator skills which comes from @Ms_Kmp's website mathssandpit.co.uk. Have a await at her post 'Calculators: The New Hope' to download the resource. And cheers to @solvemymaths for his novel '7 Days of Maths' series, which is good worth following.

4. Maths Videos
Thanks to @mhorley for sharing a link to the BBC's Kick Sum Maths videos - I've non seen these before. They powerfulness come upward inward handy to back upward the educational activity of a divulge of Key Stage 2/3 topics.

5. Self-Descriptive Numbers
Thanks to @LearningMaths for sharing this lovely activity 'Self-descriptive numbers'.

If yous await through the set of resources from which this activity comes too then you'll run into that there's enough of other corking materials inward at that spot too.

If yous similar these resources too then you'll honey cleavebooks.co.uk/trol which is total of first-class activities. For event I've long been a fan of the Vocabulary Exercises which would move good inward an information technology Room or amongst iPads.

Recommended Reading
Here's some links to banking concern agree out:

• Bruno Reddy (MEI Conference, Pret homework, #mathsconf4 and Favourite Problems. My final gems post - Gems 32 - was 1 of my most pop posts ever.

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