Making Sense of Maths - Fitting In: Teacher Book

Summary:

Making Sense of Maths is the only series that develops conceptual understanding.

This series will motivate, engage and develop the conceptual understanding of students at KS3 and KS4.

Students build their own problem solving strategies based on their understanding of the world around them which then support them to tackle functional questions.

The Teacher's Book provides support for the activities in the student book which develop the student's understanding of area, Pythagoras and volume. It also contains answers for the workbook questions which consolidate learning.

 Making Sense of Maths has been based on Realistic Maths Education (RME) and extensively trialled in KS3 and KS4 classrooms in the UK by a team from Manchester Metropolitan University.

• Use alongside existing resources or on its own
  
• Ideal for Year 10s heading for the C/D borderline
  
• Ideal for intervention groups
  
• Supports the move from modular to linear specifications by improving knowledge retention
  
• Provides support for good teaching and learning under the current Ofsted criteria

• Builds confidence and motivation
• Addresses misconceptions
• Each title covers a different set of topics

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Looking at the size of shapes
Mathematical Focus: Area and perimeter of 2-D shapes
Introduction, Sub sections, Resources
Lesson 1: A green and pleasant land? The delivery driver. Pricing tiles
Lesson 2: Stained glass
Lesson 3: Cleaning windows
Lesson 4: Touching the numbers: The rectangle. Touching the numbers: The trapezium
Lesson 5: Playground surfaces. Summary
Chapter 2: Aeas and sides
Mathematical focus: Classifying triangles and Pythagoras' rule
Introduction, Sub sections, Resources
Lesson 1: Triangle types
Lesson 2: Making triangles using three squares
Lesson 3: Triangles with a right angle. Pythagoras
Lesson 4: Pythagoras. Summary
Chapter 3: Volume and surface area
Mathematical focus: Volume and surface area of cuboids and prisms
Introduction, Sub sections, Resources
Lesson 1: Counting. Stacking shelves
Lesson 2: Packing cubes
Lesson 3: At the cheese counter. The chocolate counter
Lesson 4: Finding volumes
Lesson 5: In school. Summary
Chapter 4: Circle patterns
Mathematical focus: Area and perimeter of circular shapes
Introduction, Sub sections, Resources
Lesson 1: A stitch in time
Lesson 2: The swimming cicuit. Touch the circle 1. The circle: Using formuas
Lesson 3: Mirrors
Lesson 4: The trampoline
Lesson 5: Touching the circle 2
Lesson 6: Mirrors and circles. Summary
Chapter 5: Fitting in
Mathematical focus: Area and volume; scale factor
Introduction, Sub sections, Resources
Lesson 1: Tiles within tiles
Lesson 2: Playground
Lesson 3: Cubes
Lesson 4: Orange juice. Capacity and volume. Wooden blocks. Summary
GCSE exam-style questions
Answers
Solutions and strategies

Readership:
KS3 and GCSE students working from level 3 to level 7