An interactive whiteboard problem solving activity suitable for many levels. Makes a fun starter activity and provides a good link between shape and space and algebra. Can also used as a hands on activity for all (rather than just volunteers at the smartboard) using pencil and squared paper, plastic squares or wooden/plastic cubes.
Adult numeracy element links are difficult to classify but include:
A clever way to teach mean and median, based on the popular TV game show. Choose to play with between 1 and 22 boxes.
Pick one student as the main player – the other students can be asked to calculate the mean and/or median after each round of box opening (which can then be checked by clicking onscreen boxes) and use this to decide on a suitable banker’s offer. To install unzip the four files to a new folder and run index.html – there
An interactive whiteboard guide that covers traditional long and short division, and division by repeated subtraction – complete with nifty features such as pull away screens (revealing practice questions), etc. Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/
An interactive whiteboard guide that covers traditional. grid, lattice and Egyptian multiplication – complete with nifty features such as pull away screens (revealing practice questions), etc. Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/
An interactive whiteboard guide to a very useful method of addition – complete with nifty features such as pull away screens (revealing practice questions), etc. Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/
An interactive whiteboard guide to a very useful method of subtraction – complete with nifty features such as pull away screens (revealing practice questions), etc. Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/
Fabulous word and number cloud activities for E1 (maths words), E2 (odd even nos. and 2D shapes) and E3 (recognise, sort and and order metric measures). With instructions, extension ideas and answer sheets. Ideal for display (and annotation) on a smartboard. Wordle is a brilliant on-line, completely free word cloud creator.
See our blog articles for more Wordle teaching and learning ideas:
Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Maths
MSS1/E2.5
MSS1/E2.6
MSS1/E2.7
MSS1/E3.5
MSS1/E3.6
MSS1/E3.7
MSS2/E2.1
AN N1/E1.4
AN N1/E1.5
N1/E2.5
N1/E3.6
AN N1/E2.2 Read, write, order & compare numbers to 100; odd even nos.
AN N1/E3.1 place value <1000, odd / even, count in 10s /100s
This ‘random number generator’ is an open ended resource that the author originally designed to use for mental maths (adding or taking away 10 from the displayed number). It was later used it as part of a ‘Question of Sport’ quiz (in the spelling round!): learners choose a picture and then spell the ‘random’ number that appears: 49, 32, 28, 46, 67, 55, 21, 74 and 13 (these be edited to suit and could also be linked to any set of numbered, pre-prepared quiz questions on any topic).
Level
M8
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Maths
AN N1/E2.1 Count reliably to 100, count on in 2s and 10s
AN N1/E2.2 Read, write, order & compare numbers to 100; odd even nos.
General
Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
