Billy the Bug and Graph Mole are Hungry

Hello Grade 7 or anyone else that struggles with plotting, reading or writing coordinates.

Use a game to learn how to do this. No worksheets required!
Learn through the game and mistakes along the way. Feed Billy, he's hungry...

Billy the Bug - right here!


Graph Mole has extension activities - negative indices and also decimals. You start with positive integers.

Student Mathematical Art - Year 7 2016

Have you been enjoying Spirograph online?

Oli Bilston shared his beautiful work with me in class and then sent me the image. Do you have any you'd like to contribute to this page? Scroll to see more...

Oli Bilston 7D Wesley GW

Stephen Guerra 7D Wesley GW

Stephen Guerra 7D Wesley GW

Stephen Guerra 7D Wesley GW

Bec Campbell 7D Wesley GW

Growing your Brain

You've heard me talk about making mistakes and taking your time. Here is an expert, Jo Boaler, taking you through some of the latest in brain research. Jo is a professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford University in the USA.

Remember 18 x 5 and all the different ways to solve this problem. 

Which was your method? Show your method and try another. 

Do the same using your method and one other with 16 x 7 or    14 x 22

Show your working you did in your head visually like the examples below for 18 x 5

The Human Calculator

Thank you to Aidan Sturge. I did enjoy and was pleased to start class with it today. I am also keen to check out that Youtube channel. Thanks for sharing!

From: Aidan Sturge
Subject: human calculator

Check this video out this guy I saw on TV a while ago he is faster than  a calculator the link is below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtotrboSUqQ

Hope you enjoy

-Aidan

Spirograph! One of the things I loved the most as a kid

Whenever I am in vintage or second hand shops I always look for Spirograph. I could twirl the things for ages making amazing designs.

It's now online! I would prefer the set, but this is amazing.

Make something beautiful and upload it to the gallery.

Better yet investigate the mathematics in those designs.

CHECK IT OUT HERE

Noodles, hair, atoms, exponential growth and decay and fractions.

This cool Youtube video has mathematics relevant for grade six and grade 11 courses right now.

For grade six - they can compare it with the doubling we did when we discussed ebola. They can also look at half of a half - multiplying a fraction by a fraction or as we say in mathsland the product of two fractions.

Grade 11 - this is exponential growth and decay simultaneously depending on how you view your noodles.

Maths and you guessed it... Christmas

Here is a gift for you from Mathsland - a game. It's the latest thing and Jo Boaler of Stanford likes it so much she is now on the team..

Download Mathbreakers and puzzle it out. It looks like Mathbreakers will just keep growing too.

And this ancient game - I haven't beaten the computer yet. Can you? Cool Math - Mancala

For the next game you will need a 10 by 10 grid - this is called How Close to 100? To make it more challenging try How Close to 1 and use decimals. This is from Jo Boaler.

You will need

• two players

• two dice

• recording sheet

This game is played in partners. Two children share a blank 100 grid. The first partner rolls two number dice.

The numbers that come up are the numbers the child uses to make an array on the 100 grid. They can put the array anywhere on the grid, but the goal is to fill up the grid to get it as full as possible. After the player draws the array on the grid, she writes in the number sentence that describes the grid. The second player then rolls the dice, draws the number grid and records their number sentence. The game ends when both players have rolled the dice and cannot put any more arrays on the grid. How close to 100 can you get?

Variation Each child can have their own number grid. Play moves forward to see who can get closest to 100.