Today (Monday the 17th June), we launched the new and improved ‘Maths in the Real World’ resource on LGfL. The resource aims to inspire the evolution of pedagogy away from textbook based theoretical maths exercises to a more immersive experience, where the learner is put in a range of engaging real life situations and can see the reason why maths is needed. These range from 'Search and Rescue with HM Coastguard' where the maths involved is a matter of life and death, to the maths behind poor behaviour on a football pitch, to exploring the life expectancy of an iPhone and even contagion rates behind a biological outbreak of a virus.
All of the resources have differentiated levels of support and include case studies of innovative ways in which they have been used to target specific learners as well as demonstrating how to enhance the materials further through the use of cloud based learning platforms.
"The reasons these resources are effective is because most students want to know why they are learning something, not just learning it for the sake of it. You need to link the activity to something real and these resources do exactly that." Grahame Smart (LGfL Maths Consultant).
With the new resource are embedded case studies that exemplify how schools have made use of the resources and the impact this has had on the learners involved.
Stock Market Challenge:
Space Adventures Live:
LGfL Maths Bootcamp:
A couple of other popular resources on LGfL have had maths updates too, see below:
Do you love Busy Things Phonics Resource Maker? They have just added a maths one! The new Maths Resource Maker allows you to make your own printable maths resources for children aged 3 to 11.
There are nine different kinds of resources to make with multiple customisation options (e.g you can choose your own content and formatting and there are 27 styles of numerals to choose from):
- Enumeration and counting
- Number formation
- Number sequences
- Number bonds
- Addition and subtraction
- Times tables and multiplication
Just2easy recently teamed up with Mathsweek London 2019 to bring you a range of exciting maths activities; old favourites in J2Blast such as TtBlast and SATsBlast KS1 & KS2 (mental arithmetic for KS1 and KS2) but they also introduced a new SatsBlast KS3.
The new SatsBlast KS3 can be found by clicking on the tab at the top entitled ‘Mathsweek London’.
It has similar functionality to the other SatBlasts in that you are given the option to choose the degree of challenge:
Click on the “have a practice” icon and this will generate a sliding toolbar from which you choose the level: Pythagoras Theorem (entry level 1) up to Sequences (level 7), with trigonometry, percentages, standard form, indices and averages (levels 2-6).
Alternatively, the pupils can take a 30 minute test:
Once the test is completed you can see individual's scores as well as class data.
We hope you like these updated resources and features. If you use any of them do let us know by posting on LGfL’s Twitter or Facebook.