Topics: Starter | Vocabulary

• Transum,
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• When the students have had 5 minutes to think of their words, they could all stand up behind their chairs. Going around the class, each student calls out a word they have found beginning with the given letter. A student who doesn’t have a word which hasn’t already been called out sits down. The last student to remain standing is the winner.
  
  Another way to make the most of this Starter is for the teacher to collect the words on the whiteboard as pupils suggest them. After a few minutes each word on the list becomes the focus of quick-fire questions about that concept. For example the questions for median could be: "What other type of average do you know?", "What is the median of the first five square numbers?", "Can you think of three numbers that have the same range and median?"
• Mrs Reeves, Dover Grammar School For Girls
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• Today we did this at the Dover Grammar school for girls and what we did was we wrote down all the words in a list, then each pair of children used rock paper scissors to decide who should start.
  the children who won would go against the other child to see who has the most in a way like this,
  Wendy: multiply
  Jade: million
  and so on. the one who has the most faces another child ands so a winner is found, the winner faces the teacher! HAHAGAGAGAHAHAH
• Class 2m2, Lochend Community High School
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• We also had the same answers given plus 'Mental Maths'.
• The Y6 Dream Team!, Tickhill St. Mary's
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• Minimise; mental maths; millisecond; money; majority; million... we found more than were on the list!
• Daisy And Ole, Year 6, Beckley Primary School
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• We thought of 20 by ourselves before getting out the maths dictionary! A really good activity.
• Senior J, St Monica's Footscray
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• We did this activity for 10 minutes and came up with 37 words!!! (without maths dictionaries)
  maths
  multiply
  measure
  million
  months
  March
  May
  millenium
  minus
  more
  match
  metres
  millimetres
  make
  multiplication
  money
  measurement
  mass
  mathematician
  maps
  MAB blocks
  metric
  mathematics
  milligram
  minutes
  millilitres
  method
  many
  mode
  median
  mean
  minimum
  maximum
  milliseconds
  microseconds
  much
  multiple.
• Anbuvel, Vellore
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• Mathematics m-what,a-what,t-what,e-what,m-what,etc., explain details
  example news - n-north,e-east,w-west,s-south..
• Alexandra Park School, 7ps/Ma2
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• We got: minus, multiplication, mean, mile, metre, millimetre, minute, millisecond, millilitre, mass, metre squared, money, median, million, mode, measuring, MyMaths(!), millenium, mental, method, month, maximum, minimum.
• Alexandra Park School, 8ps/Ma3
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• We got: metre, more, multiply, mode, mapping, mapping diagram, mean, multiple, maximum, minus, million, mandlebrats, measure, midpoint, metric, mixed number, minimum, mile, mass, most, MyMaths(!), mutually, mirror line, money, median, middle, millimetre, magic square, minutes, morse code.
• Alexandra Park School, 9ps3
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• We got: mean, metre, metric, median, multiple, MyMaths, minus, method, mental, mode, mass, mathematical, millimetre, million, mirror line, multiply, millilitre, minimum, maximum, multiplication, mile, money.
• Mr McKinnon, Church Stretton School
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• Yo,
  We're at Church Stretton School and we got these;
  Millimetres, McKinnon, Minus, Measurement, Multiply, Money, Millionth,
  Mixed, Minutes, Mathematics, Mathematical, Minimum, Method, Metre,
  Million, Multiple, Median, More, Maths, Mode, Mathematician, Mile,
  Moderate, Measure, MyMaths, Multiplication, Millilitres
  We rule!
• Scorpions Class, Rowhill School
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• Maths
  multiply
  measure
  million
  May
  minus
  more
  metres
  millimetres
  make
  money
  measurement
  mathematics
  minute
  millilitres
  method
  many
  minimum
  maximum
  millimetre
  much
  measure
  mathematical
  miles
  miles per hour.
• Mr Gates, Twitter
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• Math warm up. What math words can you think of that start with the letter M? Brought to you by @Transum math starters. #SeeWhatImLearning @AtlanticViewES @HRCE_Math pic.twitter.com/AHKzSCcAMl

  — Mr. Gates (@mr_jgates) September 25, 2019

• Daegu International School, Daegu, South Korea
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• The 6th grade classes got:
  multiple, multiply, multiplication, minimum, metre, micrometre, minus, maximum, mass, mode, million, mean, midpoint, miles, mixed number, minimize, medium, megabyte, midsegment, mobius strip, millilitre, millisecond, millimetre, money, measure, mixed fraction, map, metric system.

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