Monday's Marvelous Idea - Maths Trail

The Maths Trail is a way of developing numeracy across curriculum areas. It also can be amended to form a recap or revision activity which is kinaesthetic, engaging and more subject specific.

The teacher creates a range of resources/posters which are placed around the room (see example below). On each poster is a question and also an answer to a question posed on another sheet. Students can work individually or in groups and start with a poster of their choice. They record the answer and then have to find the poster with that answer on and complete that question set and so on. This can develop numeracy in any subject where statistics or data is used. It can also be used to create subject specific questions and answers and makes a great revision activity.

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The Power of Hands

The power of hands!

I recently inherited a year 11 maths class who have an amazing ability to recall information linked to hand movements.   Their previous maths teacher used lots of hands, song and rhymes to help them to learn information and remarkably it has worked.  Most people think of jazzy hands as something associated with a dance lesson but for these students it meant to  half something.   

I found myself smiling when I read the following article on the BBC news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26643823

Their previous teacher is not only animated teacher, she is actually an  inspiring teacher.

Mrs Tracey Williams