http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/ en-us 2004-03-18T19:47:01+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000027.htm Adult students know about overdrafts and credit balances. We all know that strange condition where having £0 is actually an achievement. Use this to teach directed numbers to adult students...... number keith 2004-03-18T19:47:01+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000021.htm I asked each student a very simple equation as they arrived in class. The results were suprising. Some students who are good at algebra had to write the question down before being able to complete. Some students who find symbolic... lesson ideas keith 2004-03-10T15:37:07+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000014.htm This page describes an attempt to put some numeracy over to a group of students with a strongly felt vocational group identity. The young people on this course see themselves as care professionals. They all have work placements, most... number keith 2003-05-31T18:45:57+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000013.htm There are three kinds of percentage calculation. You can download a one sided handout with examples of each of the three kinds of percentage calculation and practice calculations with answers. The handout is available in A4 (Small print) and... number keith 2003-05-30T14:56:56+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000012.htm You can download a detailed 5 page handout with screen grabs to show students how to present data in a scatter diagram using Excel. I have used this handout with several groups of students including through a VLE. They... ilt in maths keith 2003-04-09T17:04:54+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000011.htm You can download a Word file containing an investigation based on finding the area of an irregular shape by two methods. The investigation assumes students can find the area of a trapezium. They will find the area of the... lesson ideas keith 2003-04-09T15:29:28+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000010.htm Download a ZIP file containing a MS Powerpoint demo and a set cards to play a game based on substituting into formulas. I used this game as the second part of an introductory lesson on Algebra for a GCSE... graphs and algebra keith 2003-04-09T14:43:52+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000009.htm Download a ZIP file containing a MS Powerpoint demo and a set of cards to play a game based on collecting like terms. I used this game as part of an introductory lesson on Algebra for a GCSE Foundation... graphs and algebra keith 2003-04-09T14:20:07+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000008.htm Download four different 15 minute starter tests as Word files. E3 and L1 ish tests originally written for CG3750 Numeracy Stage 1 and 2. I used these as quick starters (15 minutes) and students marked their own work.... lesson ideas keith 2003-04-05T20:11:48+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000007.htm The decimal point does not move! You can download an Excel spreadsheet designed to explore place notation and allow students to see the effect of adding various powers of ten to a number. You can also visit an external... number keith 2003-04-05T19:26:51+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000006.htm Each person shakes hands with every other person in the room. If there are 6 people then there are 15 handshakes. If there are 12 people in the room, there are 66 handshakes. The Mystic Rose diagram lets you... ilt in maths keith 2003-04-04T22:18:56+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000005.htm I have used a spreadsheet with scroll bars to change the gradient and intercept of a straight line graph on a projector as a 'starter' whole class session. I ask students to describe the changes as I click on... ilt in maths keith 2003-04-03T18:22:10+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000004.htm Set up a simple Excel spreadsheet with a table of data and an embedded chart. Project the spreadsheet and ask students to describe the chart in words. Encourage use of comparisons of bars using ratio and percentages. I differentiate... ilt in maths keith 2003-04-03T14:27:27+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000003.htm 3 + 2 * 4 = 20 Most people agree with this statement although a few will say the answer is 11. I teach the convention of sequence of operations early in maths courses above level 1 (GCSE Intermediate... number keith 2003-03-31T19:25:53+00:00 http://www.bodmas.org/teachers/archives/000002.htm There is a Web page all about dates and times in Excel. Very handy for projects on dates and elapsed time. http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm Below are two ways of finding the age of someone on completed years. If date of birth as... ilt in maths keith 2003-03-31T18:56:32+00:00