Teaching rounding? How many take a box approach like the one below.
1) Identify place value
2) draw box around digit and value to the right
3) round up down to nearest 10
4) numbers left of box stay the same, right become 0
5) explain why it works
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While students may have learning style *preferences* (e.g., visual vs. verbal), they do not actually learn better when receiving information via their preferred learning style.
This has been empirically tested over and over again.…
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I wrote this last year but thought it might be helpful to post again:
September Routines
Some stuff we do at the start of the year in my department
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Last day of the holidays for many of us. Good luck on those returning next Monday. Remember to take each week as it comes. Teaching is organic and ever changing and we need to meet the different challenges one step at a time. Well-being is important, take care of yours.
📣Teachers, have you heard?
We're launching a brand-new competition in 2025: The Mathematical Competition for Girls (25th September).
This exciting new addition invites girls across the UK to tackle five challenging problems that encourage precision, reasoning, and creative…
A little 🤏 flavour of the 11+ worksheets being created solutions provided on the next page.
Part of the Confidence/Core/Challenge sets.
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New releases coming soon.
1.Curiosity (pre check of knowledge)
2.Confidence/Core/Challenge worksheets to offer variety of challenge.
Exit tickets and notes will follow.
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