Thursday, 22 November 2012

Week Beginning Mon 26th Nov - Reading Scales

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: TO discover how to read measurements from a variety of different scales

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to read accurately from a variety of different scales, dials and measuring devices.

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY:  Use Number lines from this MathsPuzzles Document - period 1 and odd one out p2

LESSON Use these two resources to practice reading values of lots of different measuring devices. Use the 
different scales to wpork out how to read the different scales.

Scales 1,  Scales 2

Students to write down 1 to 10 for each different device, give them 10 to read then mark and repeat... lots opf times

Use the reosurces in this document for lots of practice.

REPEAT THIS LESSON PERIOD 3

Friday, 16 November 2012

Week Beginning - Mon 19th Nov - Converting between metric units of length (mm,cm,m and Kms


LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Understand how the metric system works and be able to convert between mm, cm, m and kilometres

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will understand how the metric system work and be able to convert between mm, cm, m and km

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY:
Write down what you think the following lengths are: (use mm, cm, m or Km
  1. Height of the whiteboard
  2. Width of the tall cupboard
  3. Length of your table leg
  4. Width of the smallest window
  5. Length and width of the playground outside
  6. Width of ruler
  7. The thickness of your fingernail
  8. Distance from School Wakefield
  9. Distance from School to Leeds/Bradford airport
  10. Distance of Leeds to Liverpool

LESSON: Explain How the metric prefixes make a ladder or staircase, and that every staircase up is multiply by 10 and every staircase down is divide by 10
copies of staircase.
Staircase Labels
Metric Staircase Notebook
MyMaths Lesson

If corridors are clear and students well behaved move to a staircase and use the labels to mark the staircase and use walking up and down the staircase to solve these problems

More Conversion questions

Cut/Stick Equivalent Lengths Exercise

PLENARIES: Checking Answers with students

Thursday, 15 November 2012

Fri 16th Nov: Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Understand how numbers get bigger when you multiplyn by 10or 100 or 1000, and how they get smaller when you divide by 10, 100, 1000

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to multiply or divide any decimal by 10, 100 or 1000

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY; Play  Cross the River Game as a whole class

LESSON; Reminder how to multiply by 10, 100 or 1000
Work through these Worksheets:

  1.  Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000
  2. Dividing by 10,100, 1000
PLENARY Checking answers

EXTENSION: Ex 8G page 191/ 192 of Foundatoin Text Book

Monday, 12 November 2012

Weds Nov 14th - converting between mm,cm,m, and Kms


LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Understand how the metric system works and be able to convert between mm, cm, m and kilometres

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will understand how the metric system work and be able to convert between mm, cm, m and km

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY:
Write down the answers to these multiplication and division sums:
1. 4.5 x 10 = 45
2. 56.7 x 100 = 5670
3. 78.9 ÷ 10 = 7.89
4. 245 ÷ 100 = 2.45
5. 36 x 10 = 360
6. 67 ÷ 100 = 0.67
7. 789 x 10 = 7890
8. 67.3 x 100 = 6730
9. 0.78 x 10 = 78
10. 34 x 1000 = 34000
11. 5.67 ÷ 100 = 0.0567
12. 67.8 ÷ 100 = 0.678
13. 678.3 ÷ 10 = 67.83
14. 0.63 ÷ 100 = 0.0063
15. 7.8 x 100 = 780
16. 3456 ÷ 100 = 34.56
17. 456 ÷ 1000 = 0.456
18. 58.3 x 100 = 5830
19. 34.5 ÷ 1000 = 0.0345
20. 4.56 x 10000 = 45600

LESSON: Explain How the metric prefixes make a ladder or staircase, and that every staircase up is multiply by 10 and every staircase down is divide by 10
copies of staircase.
Staircase Labels
Metric Staircase Notebook

If corridors are clear and students well behaved move to a staircase and use the labels to mark the staircase and use walking up and down the staircase to solve these problems

MyMaths Lesson

PLENARIES: Checking Answers with students

Sunday, 11 November 2012

Mon 12th Nov - Period 3 - The Metric System, converting between mm,cm, m and Kilometres

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Understand how the metric system works and be able to convert between mm, cm, m and kilometres

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will understand how the metric system work and be able to convert between mm, cm, m and km

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY:
Write down what you think the following lengths are: (use mm, cm, m or Km
  1. Height of the door
  2. Width of your desk
  3. Length of your exercise book
  4. Height of the window
  5. Length and width of the classroom
  6. Width of your little fingernail
  7. The thickness of your exercise book
  8. Distance from School To Leeds
  9. Distance from Leeds to the nearest seaside town
  10. Distance of Leeds to London

LESSON: Explain How the metric prefixes make a ladder or staircase, and that every staircase up is multiply by 10 and every staircase down is divide by 10
copies of staircase.
Staircase Labels
Metric Staircase Notebook

If corridors are clear and students well behaved move to a staircase and use the labels to mark the staircase and use walking up and down the staircase to solve these problems

MyMaths Lesson

PLENARIES: Checking Answers with students

Mon 12th Nov - Period 1 - Sorintg out Ring Binders / Updating Flight paths / number work

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: TO Sort out all work into ring binders/ update flight path and then practice tables work

SUCCESS CRITERIA: Students will know there current attainment levels and targets, will have a tidey folder with flightpath updated and improve their knowledge of tables and number work

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY: Collect folders and books, sort out all test results to date.

LESSON: Guide students through sorting their folders to include all test results.
Folders should contain:

  • Flightpath at the front
  • A wallet contsining Toolkit tests
  • A wallet containing Half termly test
  • A wallet containing end of year 7 exam
If time use Just In time to practice tables and number work.

PLENARIES: Checking answers to Just In Time Work

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Fri - 9th November 2012


LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To Analyse and review the remaining questions and topics in the D1 grade F/G test

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will understand what the answers to the questions were in the test, you will know which topics you need to do some more work on, you will gain a higher grade at the end of term test in December

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY:
1. I have £150 and want to buy some Playstation games, The games are all priced at £23.99 each. How many games can I buy and how much change will I receive.

2. I have £10 to spend and want to buy as many mars bars as I can. Mars bars cost 73p each. How many can I buy and what change will I receive.

LESSON: Ensure all students can find their tests 

For rest of lesson we will work through the the last two questoins. Students will make  copies of model answers using purple pens and then attempt some further questions on each topic that I will set on IWB

If time add results to flight tracker and sort out folders

If any extra time then, use just in time to do some number work revision

PLENARIES: Checking answers to any extra questions I set,
Answers to Just in time sums

Sunday, 4 November 2012

Mon 5th / Weds 7th November (P1 & P3)- Test Review Continued - Update Flight Tracker and Folders


LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To Analyse and review the questions and topics in the D1 grade F/G test

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will understand what the answers to the questions were in the test, you will know which topics you need to do some more work on, you will gain a higher grade at the end of term test in December

LESSON: Ensure all students can find their tests and discuss with them where we were up to on Friday before half-term. 

For rest of lesson we will work through the rest of the questions one by one, looking at model answers. Students will make  copies of model answers using purple pens and then attempt some further questions on each topic that I will set on IWB

If time add results to flight tracker and sort out folders

If any extra time then, use just in time to do some number work revision

PLENARIES: Checking answers to any extra questions I set,
Answers to Just in time sums