Holiday Project, Compound Shapes and Quadratic Formula
How do you know you're doing the right thing? While it's fairly straightforward to be given work ... it's quite another to get valuable personalised feedback. Whether you just need your maths to be checked, or a more indepth analysis of an English essay, we're always here to help.
Here's examples of some of our latest (genuine!) comments:
"Check your working"
"How many are left?"
"BIDMAS!"
"Area and perimeter of a circle formulas?"
"Read your completed work"
"Slow down, take your time ...."
"What is the writer trying to tell you?"
"Try to follow the task instructions :-)"
I must admit I genuinely enjoy marking the materials - just occasionally there's something that makes me smile - my latest favourite is 'as rude as a rabbit.' Brilliant.
Key Stage 2 - (2nd to 5th Grade)
Holiday Project
During the past few weeks we've been making a concerted effort to focus on independent writing, and it's good to discuss how texts can be improved.
Here's a similar exercise to last week's alternative words to 'nice' ... but this time, how many words can you find that would be more interesting than 'said?' Perhaps you could make a poster like this one?
Key Stage 3 (6th to 8th Grade)
Calculating the area of a compound shape continues to be a popular topic for years 7 - 9, and includes practicing core skills:
remembering / applying the formula
checking the units are correct (cm and metres are frequently confused)
showing methodical working
answering the question (how much is left?)
checking your answer is reasonable
Here's a worksheet, answers and walkthrough video - hope you like the hat!
Thank you to everyone who has visited my Substack - all the previous newsletters have been added .... offering an easy to use, searchable, archive.
Key Stage 4 (9th and 10th Grade)
Great work with last week's factorising hard quadratics worksheet ... it's good to see a number of students working through.
Here's another series of slightly challenging quadratic formula questions.
Have a great week.
Simon D
PS. And finally, did you know:
The idea of 'zero' was proposed by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta around 600AD. Brahmagupta contributed significantly to our understanding of maths and, apart from 'zero,' is best known for explaining how to find the cube and cube root of a whole number.