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Week 2: Factors, Multiples, Squares and Primes
Image Source This week we will review the definitions of the following terms: Integers: Positive and negative whole numbers (not decimals or fractions) Factors: Numbers that can be divided into a...
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Week 3: Basic Operations
Image Source This is a picture of a mechanical calculator, common in Europe in the 1960’s. Imagine using one of these in school! We are lucky now to have very cheap and efficient electronic...
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Year 7 – Fractions
Image Source Maths Antics – Converting Base-10 Fractions Maths Antics – Converting Any Fraction to a Decimal Number Maths Antics – Comparing Fractions
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Operations with Fractions
You already know that when you multiply a whole number by another whole number, the answer is a larger number. But when you multiply a fraction by another fraction the answer is smaller! Look at the...
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Fractions Eight Different Ways
Learning Intention: Students will understand that there are many different ways to express the concept of ‘part of a whole’. Success criteria: Each student will produce a poster that demonstrates...
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Welcome Back for Term 2!
Image Source This term we will be studying Measurement and Geometry. Year 7 Maths (JacPlus Chapter 9 – Measurement and Chapter 5 – Geometry) By the end of this term I hope you will be able to: Use...
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Great Victorian Coding Challenge
Image Source Over the next few weeks we are working with Scratch to create projects that demonstrate maths concepts using simple drag-and-drop programming. Please make sure you have completed the...
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Year 7 – Measurement and Geometry
National Curriculum Standard: “Students use formulas for the area and perimeter of rectangles.” The perimeter of a rectangle is calculated by adding the four sides. The area of a rectangle is...
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Year 7 – Area of Triangles
To calculate the area of a triangle use the formula: Area = One half multiplied by the base multiplied by the height (A=1/2 x bh) Squaring the Triangle (Interactive by Shodor) Area of Triangles by...
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Euler’s Formula with jubes and toothpicks
Learning Intention: To distinguish between prisms and other three-dimensional shapes and to work out the relationship between vertices, edges and faces (Euler’s Formula). These two Year 7 students are...
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Transformations and Tessellations (Year 7)
Image Source This last week of Term 2 we will be doing some transformations and tessellations. Our learning intention is to understand and describe translations, reflections in an axis, and...
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Year 7 and 8 Algebra
Image source There are many skills to learn to master Algebra, but we have already made a great start – You : 1. Can recognise and continue a pattern 2. Understand that a pro-numeral (a letter)...
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How much are your pancakes?
This recipe serves 4 people, 2 pancakes each 2 cups self raising flour, sifted (250g at 0.32c per gram) 2 large eggs, separated (40 cents each) 2 cups milk (500ml at 0.25c per ml) 2 tsp sugar (8 grams...
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Week 1: 2016
Basic operations – Using the four digits 2, 0, 1 and 6 and the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) can you make equations that equal all the numbers from zero to 20?...
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Algebra Balance Scales
When I returned to teaching a year 7 Maths class, after a break of two years, I went searching for a virtual manipulative that I had used to improve understanding of algebra concepts. The National...
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