Nice Ideas in One Place Volume 2. A Teachers' resource of whole class lesson ideas . ..-;::. .~::,! '""'. _,.. .·& I ___.._.,. ____ .., __, ,. IN ONE PLACE ~ . ,, :::::.::::::::::::,:::··--· ··-·- -- ~~~:~=-;;.~_ ~-·- -~- ·---- ·~.~; E-~~~· :::~~:: .. ~~~~==::: E.:§:e-~===::_ :::~.=:....;.:..='!;·::==;.~-:z:=.· l<:::::J:::.:t ::::.~!:::.:.!:::.:.!. E~-J ~ i ~ t:;_ • 0 .......... •t• ·• ;.&.~M -· ~:::....::-.=:::::-.:-.::!:.:::'--·- ~~-· .._-:.:,.-::::..~:::::::.·;.::-;::.:.~ .. = ::::.:::-.-:-::::-...:::::..: --·-· 1 copy £5.50 ---- 5 copies £20.00 Network Errors 1269 Probability has been left off the 6- 10 Network in error. lt should be in level 7 Probability. 2171 Pie Chart Match worksheet appears on the 1 - 5 Network as 2181 . Apologies Contents In memory of Katerina Koneva .................................. 2 Goodbye Helen, ... Hello Pat ..................................... 3 SMILE Curriculum Development ............................... 4 Network Changes ...................................................... 5 Numbers in your mind R.I.P....................................... 6 National Curriculum Planning - A Farewell ................ 7 Raising Achievement Days ........................................ 7 Performance Indicators Update ................................ 7 Numeracy .................................................................. 8 SMILE INS ET ............................................................ 9 Bi-Lingual Support Group ........................................ 12 Using the Internet in mathematics ........................... 14 Effective IEP's in mathematics ................................ 14 SMILE 25 Working Weekend .................................. 15 Dear Splash - Spirals .............................................. 16 Conference feedback .............................................. 18 A puzzle for the teacher ........................................... 23 Diary ........................................................................ 24 Pagel In memory of Katerina Koneva The la5t copy of SPLASH contained the name5 of the SMILE competition prize winner5, Katerina Koneva from Holland Park School wa5 one of them. She wa5 found murdered in her flat in Hammer5mith on 22nd May 1997. Katerina loved math5 - I believe it wa5 her favourite 5ubject. She 5tood out in the c/a55 and in the lower 5chool; 5he had more math5 merit5 than any other pupil and her work de5erved them. SMILE allowed her to work at a rapid pace and to extend her5elf with new idea5 - 5he loved it. She wa5 quick to learn and her work a delight to mark. I could give her the full range of material a5 any equipment would be well taken care of at home and bought back the next day. Now other pupi/5 when 5et Pentagon Triangle5 or Soma 5olid5 or 50 many other card5 5ay "Katerina did thi5". She marked her5elf out from the beginning of the year by getting the general rule for "Hand5hake5" before mo5t of the other5 knew what wa5 going on. She recently did 0740 without any help from me. Katerina had everything in front of her, a love for learning and the determination to 5ucceed - I don't under5tand why it wa5 all taken away. I am glad to have known her and to have taught her. I want to pay tribute to her through SMILE a5 it gave her such plea5ure and a sense of achievement. Su5an Steward Holland Park School Page2 Goodbye Helen ... Hello Pat After 8 years as SMILE's Co-ordinator Helen Wright is leaving the SMILE team to take up the post of Head of Mathematics at Swanlea School. Many many thanks to Helen for all her hard work and commitment in guiding SMILE through the many changes of the last 8 years. And all the very best of luck at Swanlea. We are very pleased to welcome Pat Cajee as the new Co-ordinator. Pat will be joining the SMILE team in either November or January from Graveney School in Wandsworth. Page3 SMILE Curriculum Development 1997/8 Writing Group 1997/8 Editing Group Last year's writing group produced a range 23 activities have been accepted this year of materials. Amongst them are activites which, along with the End of Level on decimals, including a set of decimal Reviews will make up wave 13. These playing cards and associated activities, include an activity on the median, a angles, and two conversion packs looking series of times tables booklets, a coding at metric and imperial units some of which activity using the values of different have already been accepted onto the notes in music, and two introductory SMILE Network ready for 1998. activities on decimals at level 3. The dates for the 1997/8 Writing Group The dates for the 1997/8 Editing Group will be as follows: will be as follows: Thursday 18th September 1997 Monday 6th October 1997 Thursday 16th October 1997 Monday 1Oth November 1997 Thursday 20th November 1997 Monday 8th December 1997 Thursday 8th January 1998 Monday 26th January 1998 Thursday 12th February 1998 Monday 9th March 1998 Thursday 19th March 1998 Monday 27th April 1998 Thursday 14th May 1998 Monday 1st June 1998 Monday 29th June 1998 How do activities get to the SMILE Network? Becoming part of a SMILE curriculum development group • entitles your school to a discount of 10% on SMILE materials, • enables you to develop your writing skills • allows your mathematics department to participate in deciding which new activities should go on the SMILE Network If you would like to anend either of these curriculum development groups please return the form from the last edition of Splash to the SMILE Centre as soon as possible. Page4 Network Changes Suggested changes for the September 1998 Network As mentioned in June's Splash, National Curriculum Planning felt that the unlevelled flow was under used, and that many activities within it would be more widely used if they were referenced within the main body of the Network. Below are the details of where the individual activities would go. 1634 Colouring the Dots ............. Topology 4 0116 Jumpers ............................... Addition 3 2128 Stacking .............................. Patt & Gen 4 1616 Numbers Banned ................ Axe? 1848 Three by Three .................... Logic and sets 4 0127 Escape ................................. Logic and sets 5 0136 Pegboard Games .................. TransNect 4 1318 Square Cover ....................... Patt & Gen 5 0170 Hex ..................................... Logic and sets 6 1440 Locate the Depot ................. Patt & Gen 8 0468 Watch Out! ......................... Patt & Gen 6 0321 Blocking Game ................... Logic and sets 5 0416 Eggs ..................................... Probability 7 0379 Threeline Victory ................ TransNect 3 2008 Curves of Pursuit ................. Other Resources 1620 Billiards ............................... Patt & Gen 6 2250 A Puzzling Walk .................. Logic and sets 6 1943 Lines and Squares ................ Patt & Gen 5 2282 Springles .............................. Patt & Gen 7 2204 Maxagon ............................. Prop of Shape 4 0408 Cube Moving ...................... Patt & Gen 6 0140 Go ....................................... Axe? 0278 Five Field Kono ................... Logic and sets 6 0279 High Jump Game ................ Logic and sets 4 2021 Stitching Curves .................. Drawing 2 1960 Make a Model ..................... Sim & Enl 6 1958 Ealing Broadway ................. Topology 6 1966 Curve Stitching ................... Other Resources 2098 4 in a Line ........................... Patt & Gen 6 0276 Tiger Game ......................... Logic and sets 6 1590 Squares ................................ Axe? 2002 Real Spirals .......................... Other Resources 1874 Sevens Out .......................... Place Value 3 0439 Rectangle Diagonal ............. Patt & Gen 7 1823 In and Out .......................... Axe ? Page5 Suggestions for Axing 0140 Go .................................................. UNL 0795 The Transformation Game ............. Ctr9 The Revision for It doesn't work as a game, and GCSE through too many of the combinations groupwork reference don't work. grid has been updated I 590 Squares ........................................... NL to reflect the 1995 I616 Numbers Banned ........................... UNL National Curriculum. I 823 In and Out ..................................... UNL I 887 Logo can calculate .......................... Mix6 1888 Operations ..................................... Mix6 One copy of the new Suggestions for level changes reference grid is 0183 Graphs to Mappings ....................... 7 to 6 included in each 0430 Parallel lines ................................... 7 to 6 Splash envelope. 0743 Solving by Graphs .......................... 7 to 6 0744 Equations and Graphs .................... 8 to 7 The Revision for 08 I 7 Straight Line Graphs ...................... 8 to 7 GCSE through 1156 Transformations ............................. 9 to 8 groupwork is now 190I Flip and Turn (Micro+) .................. 9 to 8 referened on the SMILE network. Numbers in your mind R.I.P. Dear Splash In the June SPLASH, I noticed that the mental mathematics activities which I published through the Learning Resources Branch (LRB), have been deleted from the network. This is not surprising now that they are out of print, not to mention having been transferred between several publishers after the ILEA was broken up seven years ago. However, I see it in a more positive light than a deletion. After all, it always seemed a contradicition in terms that I was seconded to devise learning MATERIALS for MENTAL mathematics. Shouldn't