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The clue is in the title and it is amazing the amount of extra work and discussion you can generate by doing away with everything except a board pen and a desk.
This is bits if other peoples work stuck together, the powerpoint is not mine – I only refer to it to demonstrate the alternate angle theorem. The initial task will use the number loving sheet to review where pupils are right now. The following steps are relatively self-explanatory. We will return to the number loving sheet at the end where pupils should be able to review their learning and complete new questions.
Pupils found the 'circle squares' questions from lesson 2 more challenging than I had anticipated so we spent more time unpicking how they solved those questions rather than move onto ratio. This paid off in this lesson, as they then found the ratio questions easy to deal with and were able to work out for themselves why the numbers wouldn't work for question 3 (as they were trying to change the total rather than number of adults). I have tried to change the prepare work to be just that, and rather than finding tasks to settle the class I have opted for a quiz to really get them going. They responded really well and it set a quick pace for the lesson. I have attached the file I used, it isn't mine but I have no idea who to credit it to as it is something I have picked up along the way. The Jobs pages relates to the pupils. For each lesson a designated pupil will be in charge of doing the introduction to the topic (this is obviously planned a lesson in advance), one will deliver a 'review of learning' section at the end and one will be in charge of visitors, so should we have someone observe our lesson there is someone ready to give them a tour of learning in class. The introduction and review sections can be clumsy at first and sometimes don't work as well as planned but as a routine it starts to move responsibility onto the students (which is ultimately where it needs to be). The proportion lesson is the follow on, picking up the pieces missed from lesson 3. We will start with another quiz game, followed by the ratio treasure hunt and then my keen volunteer will present her introduction to proportion.
A lot is repeated from lesson 1 as it became quickly evident pupils struggled to simplify ratios with confidence, as a consequence the work planned was not covered. The prepare task here is a look at fair trade bananas and a 'big picture' view of how ratio can be useful in understanding a real world situation. The questions are taken from resources on the TES site, the homework questions are from CIMT.
Pupils completed the What/Know/Learn matrix at the start of the previous lesson and will review it again at the beginning and end of this one. Most had nothing in the know column so lesson one focused on x on one side (with a little introduction to inequalities). They completed the jigsaw in class during lesson 1 so the prepare task is really a recap to make sure they remember the work we covered last lesson. To explain the short homework, the homework policy is little and often - rather than setting one long homework each week a small amount is set every lesson. The main graded task comes from the numberloving blog and they have many more like this. Pupils will work in pairs and complete the answers on post its, sticking them on the questions as they complete them. There will be copies for each person to take home for revision/ homework.
I CAN ... statements are an easy way for pupils to monitor their own progression through a lesson or a topic. It is the same concept as the progression wall but allows pupils to have their own record. The files I have included here are not polished and finished, they are the working documents as I have them today. If you do adapt them please send in amendments and share your ideas. These have been taken from the one year scheme of work produced by EDEXCEL. Each section has been altered to produce a set of I CAN statements which can be stuck in books and used as a reference point for pupils to record their progression through the topic. Some of them are a little long so you may decide to break them up further. The next step for these is to grade each statement.
I have used graded versions of these in lessons before that allow pupils to monitor the progress they are making, see what their next step is and what grade it will move them towards.
They can be used as the basis for chuinking a review lesson so that pupils know exactly what skill they are learning, and where it fits in to the topic as a whole.
The book I refer to in the flipchart is Mathematics for GCSE and IGCSE by CGP (ISBN 9781847626875), of all the books I have tried these seem to be the best. They don't have many frills about them just lots of practice with small steps. 1st lesson with a new class so the lesson is designed to be structured on practice and clear progression. Slide 1 is to prompt a discussion on collaboration and lead to a class agreement on rules. Simplifying jigsaw
flipchart - the 'boxes' questions are taken from Don Stewards blog Median http://donsteward.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/boxes.html , as is the tea bag question.
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