Rounding to Significant Figures is always one of those dry lessons and I really feel like I've never done it justice. On reflection today, I realised I've never quite had the right sequence of questions for pupils to really notice and observe what is happening when they're rounding. A lot of exercises are short and the problems are very varied so I hope what I've put together here will be useful for both pupils and other teachers to use.
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Angles is a topic I always find challenging to teach to S1/2 especially when you get to the 'big angle diagrams' as these always cause issues for pupils. My S2 class have studied all of the required angle properties in isolation to complete these questions but they struggled to identify these properties in the 'big diagrams'. As a result, I've created this scaffolded exercise which should hopefully help them to know how to break down the diagrams and then bring all of the information together.
Following an S1 lesson on Place Value and writing numbers given words, I've put together this exercise to try and help fill in some learning gaps. 4-digit numbers were written accurately with no non-zero digits and 5/6-digit numbers were sometimes written accurately with no non-zero digits but also with some glaring misconceptions. This minimally different exercise is with a view to fixing these misconceptions.
My S3 class will be embarking on the topic of Factorisation. I have put this resource together to use with them (alongside other resources of course) which uses the area model and backwards fading.
Many pupils struggle with the concept of division and I wanted to make sure they related this to their knowledge of multiplication. I made this resource earlier this session and it helped some pupils to make this connection.
I put this resource together earlier this year when my Higher class were studying Differentiation. Pupils always find it difficult to differentiate expressions like this so I wanted my class to focus on simplifying fractional expressions.
I put this resource together for my S3 class when they were studying Right-Angled Trigonometry. I then used this resource with my Higher class when they embarked on Double Angle and Addition Formulae.
You can download my slides here. Hopefully they make sense without the chat to go alongside it!
At La Salle Education's PTConf19, I presented on the curricular development of the topic of Indices beyond the six laws we normally teach in Scotland. The corresponding resource booklet is available here should you wish to use.
Sharing the Area Model part of my presentation from La Salle Education's PTConf on Friday in the hope that it's of use to people. Thanks to everyone who came and spoke to me or contacted me afterwards. Examples in this presentation go from from multiplication in Primary/early Secondary Education through to Advanced Higher.
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