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Inspiring methods for teaching maths at Key Stage 3

Award-winning maths teacher Jonny Heeley takes on the challenge of showing how averages work with a group of enthusiastic Key Stage 3 students. This maths masterclass explores ways of teaching averages in a series of practical examples of everyday problems. This video shows how the mean, median, mode and range of a set of numbers can be both helpful and misleading in understanding sets of data. The objective is to enthuse teachers and teach students using situations that are easy and practical to set up in a school classroom. Jonny Heeley's talent lies in empowering the students and encouraging them to express their thoughts and ideas out loud as together they work towards an understanding of the maths.

Averages

Continuous data averages are looked at with KS3 maths students

A group of Key Stage 3 students are given a masterclass in continuous data averages lead by award-winning maths teacher Jonny Heeley. Jonny explores practical ways of looking at continuous data averages using the very practical example of what size gloves a glove company should make. To gets to grips with continuous data such as hand sizes rather than discreet data such as the number of sweets in a jar, Jonny and a group of twenty students demonstrate the usefulness of class intervals and cumulative frequency graphs. The objective is to enthuse teachers and teach students using situations that are easy and practical to set up in a school classroom. Jonny's talent lies in empowering the students and encouraging them to express their thoughts and ideas out loud as together they work towards and understanding of the maths.

Averaging Continuous Data

Ten maths sequences filmed during a cricket match

Cricket is a game based on numbers and maths, offering questions about how fast a ball travels, how high, what the score is, and why cricket pitches are often oval. These ten short sequences, shot during a Saturday cricket match, each display a different aspect of mathematics for pupils to explore, investigate and discuss. Each sequence poses a question intended to stimulate mathematical discussion rather than to elicit a correct answer to a computation. The programme can be shown to pupils on a whiteboard where the pictures can be annotated, or worked on by pupils individually, or in groups on PCs or laptops.

Cricket Match

Inspiring ways to teach linear and quadratic equations to KS3

The challenge of solving linear and quadratic equations is taken on by maths teacher Jonny Heeley and a group of Key Stage 3 students. This video goes from looking at linear equations with basic variables terms to work out the price of a bar of chocolate, to quadratic equations and working out the dimension of a flowerbed once you know the area. The objective is to enthuse teachers and students by using situations that are easy and practical to set up in a school classroom. Jonny Heeley's talent lies in empowering the students and encouraging them to express their thoughts and ideas out loud as together they work towards and understanding of the maths.

Equations

Healthly living resources are reviewed

Resource Review looks in detail at three resources to help promote healthy living. Rosemary Cairns recommends a grain website that promotes healthy living, Jan Wright suggests a CD-rom series of presentations for personal wellbeing, and Sarah Atkins advocates a DVD of physical activity to music. Staff from schools around the country comment on these resources, giving us their ideas on some of their favourite resources and ones you can create yourself.

Healthy Living: aerobic dance, PSHE, food production

Mathematic sequences from behind the scenes at a London hotel

Shot behind the scenes at a London hotel, these 12 short sequences each display a different aspect of mathematics for pupils to explore, investigate and discuss. Each sequence poses a question intended to stimulate mathematical discussion rather than to elicit a correct answer to a computation. The programme is intended to be used in sections, stopping and replaying the video to analyse the information. It can be shown to pupils on a whiteboard where the pictures can be annotated, or worked on by pupils individually, or in groups on PCs or laptops. The mathematical content rewards repeated viewing and provides a rich source of mathematical imagery.

Hotel

Ten short sequences featuring different aspects of maths

These ten short sequences, all shot during the construction of a new outdoor ice rink at the Old Naval College in Greenwich, feature a different aspect of mathematics for pupils to explore and investigate. Each sequence poses a question intended to stimulate mathematical discussion rather than to elicit a correct answer to a computation. The programme is intended to be used in sections, stopping and replaying the video to analyse the information. It can be shown to pupils on a whiteboard where the pictures can be annotated, or worked on by pupils individually, or in groups on PCs or laptops. The mathematical content rewards repeated viewing and provides a rich source of mathematical imagery.

Ice Rink

An AST takes a cross curricular approach to topics

Science AST Alison Tiltman is keen to work closely with other departments and encourage cross curricular learning. Combining science, D&T, and maths, her Year 9 students take part in a challenge to imagine they're running their own cosmetics companies. As part of the project they must design, build, market and sell their own bath bombs.In their D&T class they vacuum-form the bomb's moulds and work on their packaging design. Meanwhile, in science they get their hands on the chemicals necessary to make the bath bombs, and in maths they explore the financial side of their businesses. The programme also takes a look at Alison's rockets project which also has obvious potential in science, design and technology and maths.

KS3 Cross Curricular - Bath Bombs and Rockets

A Year 9 maths teacher works to improve her AfL strategies

This series follows a group of maths teachers who are each working to improve their Assessment for Learning (AfL) strategies. The teachers, from Bromley in south east London, hope that by enhancing their teaching skills, they can make maths a more positive experience for themselves and their pupils. In this programme, a Year 9 class from Bromley's Ravensbourne School work on graphs, equations and coordinates as their teacher, Caroline Price, tests out new AfL techniques for the first time. Will Caroline be able to change her traditional approach? And how will the pupils react to this new style of teaching and learning?

KS3/4 Maths - Assessment for Learning in Maths: Exploring Graphs with Year 9

Quick-fire questions for KS3 maths: geometry, algebra, statistics

Filmed in a modern shopping mall, these quick-fire lesson starter questions for Key Stage 3 maths are presented by maths adviser and performer Isaac Anoom. This classroom resource is designed to be shown in sections, with useful pause points for discussion, clues and sometimes even answers, in this lesson idea for secondary geometry and measures, numbers, algebra and statistics. Isaac covers topics including: working out the area of an octagon; calculating percentages and VAT; determining the best value for money; practical probability; organising fractions with a card trick; and various ways of cutting a cake.

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