Area & Volume Factor

Ppt leading through principals of Area& Volume factor.

Logo Worksheet

From basic starting commands through using the repeat function to programming in LOGO, this is worksheets guides pupils through using LOGO. Some of the functions discovered by our Year 8 pupils.

Cabri file: Loci

Lots of loci examples on one file using Cabri. Challenge pupils to recreate them. Another file with all construction lines and points hidden.

Reflect, Rotate, Translate (or Flip, Turn, Slide!)

Nice activity for younger pupils to create patterns from flipping, turning or sliding coloured tiles.

Transformations

Various worksheets on cm squared paper for pupils to draw on the enlargements, with and without centre of enlargement, and some reflections, translations etc. Answers are provided (try reprinting on tracing paper to check against pupils work).

Transformations Notes

Notes on how to describe fully each of the four transformations. Further notes.

Coordinates

Great set of exercises on basic coordinates. PDF form.

Dice

From an idea from the MTN Science Centre in Cape Town, South Africa.

Pupils create 9 sections that they then peice together in the correct order to make a die (or dice!). More lesson notes. Download large squared paper for pupils to make thier own nets. Download the whole pack as a single zip file. Solution, plus another solution that my Year 6's found.

Vector Notes

Notes on vectors. Three pages, all you need, one lesson. Its all here. The Autograph files (1) (2) that were used to make it 'dynamic'.

Tesselations

Pupils continue the patterns, and maybe colour them in too to make them look nice!

Tesselation 1

Arrange the shapes to leave no gaps. Rotations & reflections are essential!

Tesselation 2

Arrange the shapes to leave no gaps, again!

Contour

Manoeuvre the ball to the target by raising the floor to create slopes, mind the edges though!

Flipit

Like Othello but different. Try to turn all the counters white, but work out how to do it first!

Connexions

Rotate the pipes to create loops, get the score as high as possible

Shift

A platform game with a twist (it'll make sense when you play it!)

Remaze

Simultaneously find your way through various mazes. Looks simple but isn't. Imagine maze puzzles meets the Matrix!

Hexagons

Like dominoes, fit the hexagons together. Is there more than one way to do it?!

Matches

"Move 2 matches to make..." type puzzles

Square Tangram A

Borrowed from the NRich Maths website. Drag them & rotate them, fit the peices together to make a square.

Square Tangram B

Borrowed from the NRich Maths website. This is a harder version of the puzzle above.

Pentominoes

A nice shape & space activity for pupils to 'generally play around with'!

Tangrams

More nice shape & space activities, this time involving tangrams. Powerpoint of 2 squares from which pupils can draw and then cut out their own tangrams.

Max Box

What's the biggest area you can contain with x cm of string? Whats the biggest volume you can contain with an A4 sheet of paper? Not as easuy as it seems!

Our answers and Autograph file used.

Hexiom

Move the hexagons so that each hexagon is adjacent to the number of hexagons shown.

Endice

Move the dice into the positions using only the number of moves on each dice.

Bridge Building

Pupils work with classroom materials to build a bridge spanning a gap of 20cm to support as much weight as possible.

Bridges

Build truss bridges for the creatures to cross, various levels all quite difficult!