5 Maths Gems #49

Hello together with welcome to my 49^th gems post. This is where I part v maths teaching ideas together with furnish an update on some of the things that accept been happening inwards Great Britain maths education.

1. Revision Mats
Grant Barker (@AccessMaths) has created some first-class revision mats. Like all of Grant's resources, these are real good designed.

For to a greater extent than GCSE revision resources, encounter my post service Higher GCSE Revision.

2. MathsBot

I've sung the praises of Jonathan Hall's (@StudyMaths) website formtimeideas.com many times before. If you're a cast tutor together with you lot don't know almost this website hence you're missing out! I've used it for tutor groups from Year vii through to Year 12. In add-on to formtimeideas.com, Jonathan runs some first-class maths websites - my favourite is Flash Maths.

It's worth checking out Jonathan's recent updates to MathsBot.com. This includes numerous helpful tools including a Starter Generator which allows you lot to choose topics together with difficulty level:

3. Key Marks

Thanks to Billy Adamson (@Billyads_47) for creating a 'Key marks earned inwards GCSEs' resource. These slides characteristic unproblematic strategies together with facts that Billy's students involve to acquire for their GCSE exams. Weekly testing over the side yesteryear side few months (for illustration alongside mini-whiteboards) volition hold out a skillful means to attention students memorise these primal points.

4. Truncation

Truncation is a novel GCSE topic. My colleague Rachel (@miss_middletonr) has a actually overnice means of helping students retrieve how to truncate numbers.

When I country I'm 35 years old, I haven't rounded my historic stream to the nearest integer. I've truncated my age. So when I country I'm 35, you lot know my historic stream is betwixt 35 together with 36:

35 ≤ age < 36

This is an incredibly straightforward together with accessible means to instruct fault intervals. Thank you lot for the consider Rachel!

5. Launch - Underground Maths
If you've been next the progress of CMEP then you lot in all likelihood already know that their fantastic H5N1 bird resources are going to hold out hosted on the novel website undergroundmathematics.org which launches on Monday. Follow @UndergroundMath for updates. I honey their 'teddy bear' action for the equation of a circle.

Recommended Reading
I recommend that you lot read these recent articles together with publications if you lot haven't already:

• Edexcel's novel Maths GCSE Assessment Guide. I flora it interesting to read that formulae volition hold out given inwards the enquiry rather than on a formula sheet. Also, although it's non novel information, the judgement "Previously, 25% of questions were targeted at A/A*, merely directly 50% of questions inwards each newspaper are targeted at the equivalent grades, 7–9" reminded me of the meaning stride upwards inwards difficulty of the novel GCSEs.
• Information almost the Common Errors Made yesteryear Maths Teachers and You Say Zero, I Say Nought.

Math Activeness Thursday Alongside House Value!

Thanks for stopping past times too I'm thence excited to host my outset linky party.  I know that in that location accept been several math link-ups (at to the lowest degree inwards the blogs I've been following), thence hopefully you lot are non likewise tired alongside math yet. : )

So, here's our MaTh activeness Th topic: Place Value

I intend house value is an of import seem for a pupil too it tin give the axe live hard for some, particularly when they acquire into the thousands place.  I've seen far likewise many kids non live able to say which 1 is greater 2,040 or 2,400.

Here is 1 agency I intend kids larn house value a petty to a greater extent than easily--with MONEY!

I similar to demo the kids $0.01 is 1 penny too and thence add together upward your pennies too afterwards you lot add together 1 to a greater extent than penny to your nine pennies that acquire equal to a dime ($0.10).  This also helps them empathize regrouping.  I honey to role charts similar this...

They are handed unopen to total of money.

Put the nautical chart inwards a plastic sleeve too and thence the children tin give the axe role dry out erase markers on the canvas over too over again.  Here is the nautical chart filled out...

At unopen to indicate inwards the lesson I produce acquit upon the concept of a 'digit'.  I explicate that in that location are 10 digits, 0-9.  Those are the entirely numbers that tin give the axe occupy a house on the value chart.  That's it--short too sweet!

So, at 1 time it's your turn.  What activities produce you lot produce alongside house value?  

Do you lot accept a game that kids love?  Do you lot role a special manipulative?  

Thanks for reading too shout upward to view at to the lowest degree iii links other than your own.  I'll denote adjacent week's theme on Mon : )

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Using Arrow Cards to Help Second Graders Read in addition to Write Numbers to 1000

H5N1 large thought inwards the Common Core State Standards for minute aeroplane is beingness able to sympathise house value in addition to read in addition to write numbers upwards to 1000. Arrow cards tin live an effective and fun agency to attain this goal.  

Materials

      You volition ask arrow bill of fare blacklines.  Print or re-create them onto cardstock or, if y'all accept a magnetic white board or other large magnetic surface, it tin live really beneficial to impress your arrow cards onto magnetic printer paper.  You volition meet inwards many of my pictures I accept magnetic arrow cards.  They produce ask to live printed on an inkjet printer, non a Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation one!  The other benefit of using magnetic ones is that they stick to each other quite well.  I accept a laid that is magnetic for role amongst whole grouping instruction in addition to to a greater extent than or less other laid that is printed onto laminated cardstock that I role for minor grouping or private instruction. There are several dissimilar styles of arrow cards available for gratuitous online in addition to the ones I linked to before inwards this postal service produce non check the ones y'all volition meet inwards the pictures.

The Set Up in addition to Routine

I start this routine lesson yesteryear placing each arrow bill of fare out 1 yesteryear 1 in addition to having kids read them to me.  This should live tardily in addition to fluent for kids before y'all laid about combining the arrow cards.  If reading these numbers is non yet fluent for your students.  Practice them before moving on amongst these activities.

     After I accept ensured all kids tin read the numbers on each arrow card, I start to exhibit them how I combine them to brand other numbers.  I start yesteryear showing them two separate arrow cards in addition to having them read each one, in addition to thence I seat them together (arrows ever acquire on move yesteryear of each other) in addition to accept them read it equally 1 number.

Separate arrow cards that are close to live pushed together to shape 1 number

This is what it looks similar when the 40 in addition to the 8 arrow cards are placed on move yesteryear of each other.    Arrows ever acquire together.

I start amongst making 2 digit numbers in addition to I avoid the 10 until I accept done a bunch of other combinations.  The argue for this is that 10 does non follow the rules.  When I produce 48, the kids meet in addition to state twoscore than eight.  When I force them together, they state forty-eight. The x in addition to to a greater extent than or less to a greater extent than numbers (teen numbers) are the alone ones that don't follow this rule.  Let's state I choose grip of the 10 bill of fare in addition to the 6 card.  Reading them separately would live x in addition to six.  When y'all seat them together, y'all volition listen to a greater extent than or less kids state ten-six.  This is a neat fourth dimension to verbalize close how sixteen actually does hateful ten-six but that nosotros state them a dissimilar way.  Ask kids to assist y'all detect other numbers (all of them volition live betwixt 10 in addition to 20) where this works.  When kids accept this idea, it is fourth dimension to motion onto hundreds.

 

Again I start amongst 2 or more separate cards in addition to accept kids read them in addition to and thence seat them together in addition to accept them read it again.  

Numbers similar 103 are supposed to live learned inwards initiative of all aeroplane nether the Common Core.   Of course, this is 1 of the most challenging numbers for initiative of all graders to read in addition to write thence y'all tin almost guarantee that y'all volition accept kids at the commencement of minute aeroplane who ask to a greater extent than exercise amongst this idea.  I dearest the agency the arrow cards actually demonstrate why 103 is non written equally 1003.  There volition ofttimes live a kid who points out that the 3 is hiding 1 of the zeros.  This is a large thought in addition to worth exploring if individual brings it up.

As kids acquire to a greater extent than fluent amongst reading the numbers apart in addition to and thence together, I mightiness switch things upwards on them in addition to exhibit them a seat out that is seat together in addition to and thence describe it apart to "check" their thinking.

For this one, I had kids unopen their eyes in addition to I chose iii seat out cards off the board.  I had them opened upwards their eyes in addition to whisper the seat out to a partner.  I in addition to thence describe the cards apart to banking concern check if they are right.

When I describe the cards apart, non alone tin kids meet they are correct but this leads correct into a intelligence on expanded shape (which too happens to live a minute aeroplane expectation inwards the Common Core) I seat the numbers on the board inwards a pulled apart fashion in addition to connect them amongst improver signs. 

I acquire 1 stride farther in addition to write the entire equation that nosotros exactly said.  Here nosotros noticed that 268 was the same equally (or equal to) 200 + 60 + 8

After 1-2 whole grouping lessons on these ideas, kids actually seem to acquire it.  I ofttimes produce 1-2 to a greater extent than minor grouping or intervention lessons on kids who are nonetheless struggling in addition to volition sometimes describe the arrow cards out afterwards inwards the twelvemonth for a quick review.  Kids accept a lot of fun amongst these in addition to are normally happy to role the cards again.

If y'all accept computers inwards your room, this game in addition to this game are neat ways to allow kids exercise amongst arrow cards independently.

Adapting for older or younger children

I too role the arrow cards inwards Kindergarten, first, 3rd in addition to 4th grades.  I exactly vary the gain of numbers I role in addition to the speed at which I acquire through the routine.

Here is what my gear upwards mightiness facial expression similar inwards K or first.  In Kindergarten I mightiness even restrict the numbers farther but I never EVER start amongst the teen numbers.  I ever relieve them for last.

H5N1 3rd or 4th aeroplane lesson gear upwards mightiness facial expression similar this

If y'all desire to read to a greater extent than close using arrow cards inwards the classroom, banking concern check out this article from Education World or this resource from NZ maths.  

Have y'all ever used arrow cards inwards your classroom? Are they something y'all are thinking close trying?

Math Action Thursday: 3.Nbt.A.2 (Adding/Subtracting Upwards To 1000)

It has been an extremely busy calendar week hither at my house.  I powerfulness alone survive able to post service 1 time a calendar week together with occasionally twice a week.

Anyway, for this MaTh edition I volition survive focusing on CCSS 3.NBT.A.2!

This criterion expects tertiary graders to: Fluently add together together with subtract inside thou using strategies together with algorithms based on house value, properties of operations, and/or the human relationship betwixt improver together with subtraction.

So, let's accept these 2 methods, knowing strategies together with knowing algorithms.

A strategy is defined as a computer program of activity or policy designed to accomplish a major or overall aim.  So to me, knowing strategies is similar knowing shortcuts together with all the rules behind how to function on a employment to larn the answer.

Algorithm is defined as a procedure or fix of rules to survive followed inwards calculations or other problem-solving operations.  This is knowing the steps to survive taken (like regrouping).

It is of import for children to direct maintain both strategies together with algorithms.  If kids alone know the algorithms together with non the concepts or strategies math volition transcend difficult.

So hither are or together with thus past times posts that tin dismiss assistance kids empathize house value to assistance them add together together with subtract.

• Place value alongside money
• Guest post--arrow cards to exhibit house value

When a kid sees 634 + 342 or the contrary 634 - 342 yous should hash out ways to solve it.  Do they automatically transcend to the fix rules they direct maintain been taught or create they create or together with thus of it inwards their mind.  Have the children explicate how they got their answers.  Children fluent inwards math skills volition know to a greater extent than than 1 agency to create the employment together with volition likely know which agency is the easiest for the item problem. : )

I recommend if children fighting alongside this reinforce 2 digit numbers together with fifty-fifty 1 digit numbers together with brand certain they empathize the house values past times agreement quantities alongside those values.

What ideas or math activities create yous direct maintain to share?

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1-100 Cards For House Value! Math Action Thursday: 1St Grade

Hey everyone!  For today's MaTh activeness Th nosotros are doing a 1st degree focus, as well as hence link upwards whatever 1st degree math posts you lot want.  I decided since I solely larn a duo links each time, I volition run the link for the whole calendar month : )

I chose to brand an activeness alongside 1.NBT.B.2 which is

• Understand that the 2 digits of a two-digit position out stand upwards for amounts of tens as well as ones. Understand the next equally exceptional cases:
• CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2a 10 tin survive idea of equally a packet of x ones — called a “ten.”
• CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2b The numbers from xi to nineteen are composed of a x as well as one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
• CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2c The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, ninety elevate to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).

I made a production that volition larn perfect for helping your students empathize this concept.  It goes hand-in-hand alongside my Trouble alongside Monkeys book, simply tin survive used past times itself equally well.  Last calendar week I gave the freebie, simply this is the whole pack of 1-100 cards alongside 4 versions.  You larn 48 pages of cards...

• 1-100 cards inwards B&W alongside numbers

• 1-100 cards inwards B&W without numbers

• 1-100 cards inwards color alongside numbers

• 1-100 cards inwards color without numbers

With these cards you lot tin create numerous games as well as activities!  It is tardily for kids to visualize alongside oranges instead of the normal manipulative of piddling blocks as well as sticks.

Here is a fun activeness you lot tin do--Make a hugger-mugger code.

Simply write a-z on your newspaper (leaving infinite for the code number)

Pick blank 1-100 cards as well as write the position out each fourth dimension you lot selection 1 up.

Make messages alongside your novel hugger-mugger code!

Thanks for visiting!  What math concepts are your kids working on?  Will you lot portion them alongside MaTh activeness Thursday?

Place Value: Math Activeness For Sec Grade

I'll acknowledge it--I beloved to learn house value.  Why?  I don't know...  Maybe because I similar organizing things into groups (give me a messy drawer together with I'll convey fun making it hold back great).  Anyway, I convey made quite a few posts amongst house value already, simply thought I would practise to a greater extent than or less other i since it is a concept that kids actually necessitate to sympathize well.  I'm non certain if you lot tin transportation away over-teach house value.  What practise you lot think?

So, hither it is for Math activeness Thursday--2nd Grade

To aid sympathize that a ii digit unwrap consists of a grouping or groups of tens, summation the singles, my house value cards amongst oranges actually comes inwards handy...

Although if you lot choice other objects to purpose similar paperclips or cereal that's okay too.  In instant bird most children are learning nigh iii digit places (typically ones, tens, together with hundreds).  I intend it is a skillful thought for them to know typical coin house value equally good (hundredths, tenths, ones) together with then you lot would purpose pennies, dimes, together with dollars.

One activeness you lot tin transportation away practise amongst your students is to play a game called "What makes a Hundred"

Kids are inwards small-scale groups--such equally a math center.

H5N1 carte du jour is picked.  (Let's tell 43)

Use a xxx instant timer together with convey them commencement it.

The students purpose white boards or newspaper to figure out how much they necessitate to brand a hundred. (43 + __ = 100)

After the xxx seconds are upwardly everyone amongst the right unwrap gets a point.

They could play for a specific sum of fourth dimension or play until soul gets 10 points (or to a greater extent than or less other predetermined unwrap of points).

What math activities convey you lot been doing inwards your classroom?  You tin transportation away part link your weblog posts below.

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Math Action Thursday: Ccss.2.Nbt.A.1

Hey, it's that fourth dimension again...MaTh time

I'm actually looking forrad to afterward on today because I am going into my son's minute aeroplane class to read my storey Trouble alongside Monkeys: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 house value storey together with create an action alongside CCSS.2.NBT.A.1

Just inwards illustration y'all haven't seen it yet, I'll embed it again.  Here is the storey I'll last reading : )

Then nosotros volition utter most the bottom of the house value nautical chart together with how it is inwards the story.

• The ones house is unmarried oranges, the tens are bags, the hundreds are boxes...

I made cards from my 1-100 cards I made for TpT together with added about to a greater extent than cards alongside only the hundreds place.  I'll essay together with update the cards on those sites ASAP.

We are going to accept ii students each choice a bill of fare from the hundreds bill of fare pile together with ane from the ii digit bill of fare pile.  We volition notice the number, write the numeral for the represented pose out together with thus tell which ane is greater or less than the other.

We mightiness too accept a grouping of students create this together with thus accept them draw of piece of job upwardly inwards ascending order.

I volition last continuing to accept the same linky each week.  You tin laissez passer on notice add together equally many sec aeroplane math posts equally y'all want.   Have a bully week!

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Guest Blogger From Digiblock.Com: House Value Too Division

I'm happy to welcome beau instructor Avery Stern at Digi Block. She has unopen to autumn activities as well as groovy partitioning tips as y'all learn your students!

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What’s More American Than Apple Pie as well as Fair Shares?

In the words of a soft-rock vocalizer “When autumn comes, it doesn’t ask, it precisely walks inwards where it left y'all last,” as well as autumn, has marched right inwards amongst all things pumpkin, apple, knitted, as well as spooky. It tin give notice also live a fourth dimension for classroom cooking as well as grouping activities - as well as thence what ameliorate fourth dimension that to get-go introducing the daunting partitioning unit of measurement than through fun, autumnal themed lessons?

One of the things nosotros actually similar to emphasize hither at Digi-Block is the persuasion of self-discovery. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 way of increasing the likelihood of pupil appointment as well as excitement is past times introducing this lesson without fifty-fifty whispering the D word; Donuts? Dragon-tales? Dasypoedes? Division.

To immature students, partitioning tin give notice oft look similar the no-good-very-bad-fourth blood brother of math...But I quite similar division...and it’s an undeniably necessary skill. So let’s learn that D discussion inwards the most useful way possible - existent life scenarios.  

Here are two, introductory activities for Secret Division using our favorite math manipulative, the Digi-Block!

Dividing the Pie

In this activity students will:

• Use the blocks to decide how to brand fair shares of a known quantity                                                                   

• Materials: Digi-Block of 1000, or other manipulative ie. pennies, counters, etc. as well as worksheet

Introduction: You’ve gone apple tree or pumpkin, or olfactory organ picking; let’s purpose Digi-Blocks to educate a telephone commutation agreement of “giving everyone a fair share.”

Instruction: Say y'all lead maintain 15 students inwards a class, as well as you’ve picked 240 apples - We’ll purpose Digi-Blocks as our rot-free substitute. How neat as well as clean! ... Like our hands earlier nosotros get-go dolling out ripe produce.

Have your students predict how many apples, (pumpkins, boogers, or blocks), each nestling volition learn depending on the amount they collect.

Have your students brainstorm how to as distribute the goods. They may get-go past times handing each individual i at a time. Thats OKAY! Let them tediously operate out the problem.

Now lead maintain students pack the blocks into tens as well as hundreds.

Questions to Ask:

Can each pupil have a total block of 100?

Can each pupil have a block of 10?

How many unmarried blocks volition each pupil receive?

Were at that spot whatever leftovers?

Did y'all lead maintain to unpack the blocks to fairly distribute them?

Do y'all retrieve at that spot are times nosotros won’t live able to fairly distribute the apples? (If students are at a indicate of extended thinking)

ex answer: “When nosotros modify the release of apples or nosotros modify the release of people.”

Hmmmmmm. Tricky.

Variations:

• Try the lesson amongst each grouping using dissimilar forms of 100. Ex. Loose unmarried blocks, tens blocks, or pre-packed 100 blocks as well as remainder. Have students hash out what was easier.

Ask: Why was i way easier than the other? ie. the base of operations 10 release organization bundles upwards units as well as thence that nosotros don’t lead maintain to individually count.

• give unopen to groups apples that volition as percentage out as well as lead maintain others that volition leave of absence them amongst a remainder. Can students regain similarities as well as differences inwards partitioning problems that leave of absence remainders. Do the problems out amongst the blocks.

Pumpkin Carving as well as All that Leftover Gunk:

Introducing the balance as well as peaking pupil curiosity.  

In this activity students will:

- Learn almost remainders through self-discovery as well as real-life work solving.

• Materials: Digi-Block of 1000, or other manipulative ie. pennies, counters, etc.
• An array mat (print out attached).

Instruction: You tin give notice get past times breaking your classroom into fifty-fifty groups. Have your students figure out how large the groups should live as a warm-up to your partitioning lesson.

Provide each pupil amongst an array mat, blocks, as well as a serial of brusk discussion problems. (worksheet attached).

Ex. You are carving pumpkins for all the houses on your street. There are vii houses as well as 68 pumpkins. How many pumpkins volition each solid get?

Lets demonstrate this amongst blocks.

(insert ikon pumpkins_packed.jpg)

Question to Ask:

“How tin give notice nosotros purpose what nosotros know to come upwards up amongst an efficient, simple way, of dividing upwards these pumpkins/blocks?”

Remind students that packing blocks to stand upwards for pumpkins is a groovy house to start, as well as they should log their persuasion processes inwards their math journals. <-- a groovy way of assessing progress as well as deep conceptual understanding.

Students may come upwards up amongst several dissimilar ways of answering the problem. Repeated subtraction*, written work, or distributing inwards fifty-fifty groups on the array mat are all groovy options.

Questions to ask:

After they divide, if nosotros took all the pumpkins back, how many would nosotros have? How tin give notice nosotros demonstrate this amongst a release sentence? What does this learn us almost checking your work?

*Using repeated subtraction as a method of simple partitioning tin give notice live a groovy way to start. It’s of import to emphasize that repeated subtraction is the non the same as partitioning fifty-fifty though repeated add-on is multiplication. Can your students figure out the argue for this? Sometimes it takes adults a chip of fourth dimension as well! Repeated subtraction finds the release of equal groups piece sharing finds the release IN each equal group.

ex. 25-8-8-8 = 1 non the same as 25/8 BUT 8+8+8 = 24 which IS the same as 8x3

Variations:

Ask your students non solely to percentage their discoveries, but swap technique amongst unopen to other group.

As for the remainder, remind your students that real-life partitioning agency at that spot are real-life solutions to what’s leftover.

Challenge Question: What does the balance stand upwards for as well as why can’t nosotros precisely brand unopen to other grouping out of it?

Even though nosotros oft ignore the balance inwards a partitioning work - If they actually did lead maintain likewise many pumpkins, what could they attain amongst it?

Give them to a friend who doesn’t alive on the block? Use them to decorate their ain front end porch? Make pancakes as well as pumpkin seed snacks out of them? Cut them into bits as well as leave of absence it for the compost?

Peak your students’ interest. Instill curiosity!

Math is everywhere from the World Series to how many tabular array spoons of cinnamon to toss into that delicious vat of hot cider. Maintaining a clear reminder of this is vital to a student’s engagement.

And precisely to top it all of, follow this lesson upwards amongst a existent autumn activity similar leafage collecting as well as dividing, pie baking where partitioning as well as measurements are unavoidably enjoyable, or my personal favorite; predicting how many pieces of Halloween candy they would demand to collect to lead maintain plenty for a few sugariness treats every week!

General Tips for when your students are stuck:

• Simplify the problem. Focus on identifying patterns rather than getting the reply correct.
• See if they tin give notice operate backwards as well as regain the exact indicate inwards the lesson where the challenge becomes likewise much.
• Encourage self-correction past times cry for questions to help them position points of error.  ie. They brand an incomplete grouping out of the remainder. Can they workout why this isn’t a feasible solution?

• Put the blocks away as well as only verbalise almost potential solutions. Then dive dorsum in, but slowly! Always get-go amongst an easily doable problem. This provides a confident get-go for students.

And most importantly:

• Listen to unopen to trip the calorie-free fantastic toe music. Dance to the trip the calorie-free fantastic toe music. Sing to the trip the calorie-free fantastic toe music. Boogie woogie woogie until y'all precisely can’t boogie no more.

Wow! Great information Avery! Thanks for existence a invitee blogger at . If anyone wants to live a invitee only e-mail me at kidsmathteacher@gmail.com amongst your invitee post persuasion as well as we'll travel out from there. Have a groovy ease of your weekend!