Teaching Activities

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Each link below provides a description of a teaching activity that you could use to develop your students' understanding of a particular concept.

Balancing with tidy numbers (addition strategy) PDF (21KB) Word (34KB)
Alphabet Soup (algebraic symbols) PDF (22KB) Word (27KB)
Midpoint (the idea of halfway) PDF (14KB) Word (30KB)
Developing Similarity PDF( 93KB) Word (48KB)
II Similar PDF (100KB) Word (37KB)
Paper Folding Fractions 1 PDF (86KB) Word (75KB)
Paper Folding Fractions 2 PDF (83KB) Word (57KB)
The Longest Side:
       Teachers' notes PDF (88KB) Word (36KB)
       Copymaster PDF (32KB) Word (30KB)
       Worksheet PDF (49KB) Word (31KB)

Writing up an investigation PDF (110KB) Word (62KB)
Multiplication strategy assignment