Open Evening

Open Evening flavor is underway. In this post I desire to portion a few ideas for activities that a Maths Department tin run. Before I produce so, it's helpful to intend virtually the run of Open Evenings.

According to the Good Schools Guide, this is why a bring upwards should attend an Open Evening: "They may non genuinely reverberate twenty-four hr menstruation to twenty-four hr menstruation life at a schoolhouse (this volition travel schoolhouse at its best) but they'll give yous a flavour of what's happening as well as allow yous to soak-up or repel the atmosphere. They are your conduct chances to conduct maintain the upper-hand, acquire a experience for the schoolhouse as well as chat amongst pupils as well as staff. Do take in to a greater extent than than i school, it’s useful to compare as well as contrast. Remember it's non merely schools that select as well as pick out pupils, parents select as well as pick out schools too; thus seize the night!".

Amongst the advice that the Good Schools Guide gives to parents virtually what to produce on the night, nosotros conduct maintain the following:

• Quiz youngsters virtually how much attention they acquire from teachers, whether lessons are fun, noisy, long... Are they allowed to beak inward class? What happens if mortal is beingness a nuisance? 
• Is outstanding piece of work rewarded? Is homework gear upwards (and marked)? 
• What happens if they don’t empathize the piece of work or detect it likewise easy?
• If children are task activities peculiarly inward the center subjects such equally maths, enquire if this is park fodder. The agency a kid responds (or instructor flaps) may travel to a greater extent than telling than the responses they give.

In my experience, it's rare for parents to inquire questions similar these. Nevertheless, it's worth telling staff as well as students that this is the form of affair they may travel asked.

I was rattling interested inward what Mel (blank clock templates as well as offering children the chance to pattern a maths clock. You could conduct maintain a large empty display board available thus they tin pivot upwards their designs.

2. Four Fours
Write the next on a whiteboard or flipchart for the numbers 1 - 20:
4 4 4 4 = 0
4 4 4 4 = 1
4 4 4 4 = 2
4 4 4 4 = 3
etc

Have a pupil helper resultant board pens as well as instructions. Children conduct maintain a acquire at filling inward the operations. They detect this quite challenging. Parents relish it too.

Possible solution - @edfromo

3. Estimation Games
As I mentioned inward my most recent gems post, estimation develops seat out feel as well as employment solving skills. Children could gauge the weight of a large pumpkin, the value of coin inward a appall or the seat out of sweets inward a bowl. Alternatively, convey inward an assortment of circles or rings (plates, saucers, large hula hoops, polo mints) as well as inquire children to estimate, as well as thus measure, the circumferences.

Speaking of circles, children could endeavour to depict a circle freehand, amongst your pupil helpers judging their accuracy. This is rattling a practiced learning chance for your students because the
judging involves circle theorems, thus yous could conduct maintain GCSE students produce the judging equally an extension to their circle theorem lessons.

4. Shapes
@sxpmaths suggests a fun game of human quadrilaterals. In pairs, children conduct maintain to cast diverse quadrilaterals amongst their arms/legs/bodies. 

If yous conduct maintain access to an interactive whiteboard, how virtually the bully game 'Shape Shoot' from flashmaths.co.uk?

Another shape game involves children writing downwards the shout out of a shape on a post-it as well as sticking it to the caput of a pupil helper, who as well as thus has to guess what the shape is using upwards to 10 yes/no questions.

5. Lowest Number Competition

My schoolhouse holds a 'Lowest Number Competition' which ever goes downwards well. Each kid completes the sideslip below as well as puts it inward a sealed box. The adjacent twenty-four hr menstruation nosotros sort though the responses - there's ever lots of 'ones' from children who conduct maintain missed the indicate (or peradventure they've tried to travel clever as well as assumed that no-one else would give such an obvious answer! Worth a try!). The winning seat out is unremarkably inward the belatedly teens or early on 20s. The Maths Department tin also produce a sweepstake on what the winning seat out volition be.

Read this Twitter discussion for more opened upwards eventide action ideas.