Vocabulary Activities
I dear these mathematical crosswords for developing students' cognition of mathematical vocabulary. There's a broad gain of crosswords to endeavour (maths teachers volition relish the 'branches of mathematics' crossword on on page 34).
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Teacher Resources Online has loads of peachy activities including these vocabulary exercises, some of which would run good inwards an information technology Room or amongst iPads.
I similar this polygon word search too.
There are more word searches here.
Crossums too Number Searches
Sticking amongst puzzles, there's loads of crossums too let on searches here, including the lovely Number Sets Search pictured below. I gave this to my Year 8 degree this calendar week (we've only done unopen to run on basic sets too Venns). I also gave them this excellent Number Types activeness from Churchill Maths too nosotros did this interactive whiteboard Drag too Drop Venn diagram activeness from flashmaths.co.uk.
Cryptography
There are loads of peachy cryptography resources at Teacher Resources Online and CIMT. The Imitation Game is right away available on DVD if you're looking to brand cryptography a theme inwards the final calendar week of term.
Quizzical
There's a overnice prepare of maths quizzes from Pinnacle here, including 3 'silly quizzes' at the end.
Magic Squares
Don Steward has a magic squares blog amongst all the magic squares you lot could ever need.
Logic too Lateral Thinking
CIMT has lots of logic resources. Maths lessons are in all probability the solely house where students convey an chance to prepare the fine art of logical thinking - it's a shame nosotros don't produce to a greater extent than of this.
I've also pose a charge of brainteasers inwards this dropbox folder.
Investigations
Now is a practiced fourth dimension of yr for students to larn stuck into an investigation. This dropbox folder has a large pick of investigations, including those from Nuffield and Bowland.
Problem Solving
On my problem solving page I listing links to lots of occupation solving resources.
Research
Teachit Maths has a lovely pick of terminate of term resources here. I peculiarly similar the Random Mathematics Research Quiz and the Greatest Mathematics Country Debate, both of which require students to produce mesh research.
Durham Maths Mysteries
Thanks to @pwp1303 for pointing me inwards the administration of these lovely resources. If you lot desire to dice on doing topic-based maths inwards the final calendar week of term thence endeavour these activities.
Relay Races too Team Challenges
Chris Smith (@aap03102) has created unopen to first-class resources that would run good at the terminate of term. Check out his Maths Relay Races and Maths Group Challenges.
More ideas
I promise this has been helpful. There's lots to guide from. Enjoy the final calendar week of term!
There's a overnice prepare of maths quizzes from Pinnacle here, including 3 'silly quizzes' at the end.
Don Steward has a magic squares blog amongst all the magic squares you lot could ever need.
CIMT has lots of logic resources. Maths lessons are in all probability the solely house where students convey an chance to prepare the fine art of logical thinking - it's a shame nosotros don't produce to a greater extent than of this.
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I've also pose a charge of brainteasers inwards this dropbox folder.
Now is a practiced fourth dimension of yr for students to larn stuck into an investigation. This dropbox folder has a large pick of investigations, including those from Nuffield and Bowland.
Problem Solving
On my problem solving page I listing links to lots of occupation solving resources.
Research
Teachit Maths has a lovely pick of terminate of term resources here. I peculiarly similar the Random Mathematics Research Quiz and the Greatest Mathematics Country Debate, both of which require students to produce mesh research.
Durham Maths Mysteries
Thanks to @pwp1303 for pointing me inwards the administration of these lovely resources. If you lot desire to dice on doing topic-based maths inwards the final calendar week of term thence endeavour these activities.
Relay Races too Team Challenges
Chris Smith (@aap03102) has created unopen to first-class resources that would run good at the terminate of term. Check out his Maths Relay Races and Maths Group Challenges.
More ideas
- If you're looking to larn exterior the classroom on a sunny day, try the Maths Scavenger Hunt from Transum. There's loads to a greater extent than lovely activities on the Transum website to explore.
- My students dear these riddles!
- Find the Factors puzzles are first-class (it's ever worthwhile practising times tables).
- A game of Countdown ever goes downwardly well. Put a twist on it amongst Algebra Countdown from @stephenbodman.
- Memory Maths is 1 of my favourites - larn students to describe the grids on mini-whiteboards.
- My colleagues convey enjoyed playing the Lobster Game and the Pirate Game amongst their classes this week.
- Quadratic colouring is a peachy activeness for students who know how to plot quadratic graphs.
- Why non instruct your students Binary? See my post virtually didactics this topic.
- Don't forget the videos on Numberphile. It's solely 2 minutes long, but 1 of my favourites is the delightful video '1 - 200 on Google Image Search'.
- I shared unopen to ideas for lessons on Fermat too Pascal inwards my postal service 'End of term!' last year.
I promise this has been helpful. There's lots to guide from. Enjoy the final calendar week of term!
