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MATHS ACTIVITIES TO START THE YEAR

It's the start of a new school year. You have a new class that you have not taught before and you really want to make a good start. Do you get straight into the scheme of work or do you spend the first lesson laying down the law? Do you have a good idea of what the pupils already know or is it still one of the great unknowns?

This page contains some suggestions, some resources to help you create a good impression and establish a good culture for learning.

Introduction

Setting out the basic rules for learning and the Dos and Don'ts of the classroom.

What Do You Already Know?

These activities show you, the teacher, what your pupils can already do and what they may have forgotten.

Improve Your Times Tables

Let's begin with the basics, skills that will underpin learning for the rest of the year.

Develop Your Memory

These memory activities do not rely on previous learning so it's a level playing field.

Produce A Display

Activities that will produce beautiful displays for those empty walls. Many more ideas here.

Mathematical Vocabulary

Find out the range of mathematical words your pupils know and can remember from last year.

Extra-Curricular

Start the year learning about some ideas that are not in the normal mathematics curriculum.

Numbers in Words

Here are some nice Starters all requiring the ability to write numbers as words.

Calculator Skills

Let's begin the year by becomming a little more familiar with the device that will be used frequently.

Investigations

Mathematical investigations are open-ended and could take quite a long time.

Play A Game

Show from the beginning of the year that games can support learning in Mathematics.

Solve A Puzzle

Puzzle solving strategies can be applied to many of the mathematical topics that will be studied this year.

Revise A Concept

Reactivate the parts of the brain that worked so well last year but have slowed down over the summer.

Start the Scheme

Let's not waste any time and get straight into the scheme of work for the year.

If you find an activity that interests you in the panels above, click on one of the small pictures to go directly to the details of that activity.

Class Admin

In adition to all of the mathematics resources do you have your administration systems ready for this class? Transum subscribers have access to a system that allows them to create class pages in which they can store the names of the pupils in the class and then easily access many of the administrative tools they need.

Online Markbook :: Printable Classlists :: Seating Plan
Random Name Picker :: Trophy Recording Chart
Online Lesson Plan Creator
Online Student Notes :: Report Writer

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