Encouraging talk

Starter Activities 1, Starter activities 2, what happens next

Powerpoints made up with various starter activities, all of which have been designed to promote and encourage students discussion

(If you have any other ideas that can be added to this please e-mail them to a.willis@nevillelovett.hants.sch.uk These will then be sent out updated)

Shelter Boxes

Functional skills activity using Kagan structures to help develop talk. notebook is self-explanatory.

Argos catalogue

Linkedto shelter boxes.

Security Camera Activity

Bowland assessment task developed for use of fractions, decimals and percentages.

(More of these are available on the Bowland website.)

Reading Images

The idea of these are to have a question in the middle, use the first section for students to write down ideas and information needed to solve this. They should discuss this in groups, using a different colour pen each. The outside area is to answer the question.

Transformations true/false

Matching statements to diagrams. There are a variety of these on the TES website

Venn Diagrams

Statements and diagrams

Impress me

A table of data is given to the students and they have to do as much Maths as they can. This particular one is on powerpoint with the different diagrams and calculations that can be carried out.