1. Embedding Maths
Dave Kirby
January 2017

2. Starter Which is correct, six and six is four or six and six are four?
Divide 30 by a half and add 10
A train is on a perfectly circular track. It travels at 30mph. If it goes clockwise, it takes 1hr 10mins, in the other 70 minutes. Why?
If a doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long will they last?
When can you add 'two' to 'eleven' and get 'one' as the correct answer?

3. Answers
Which is correct, six and six is four or six and six are four? Neither, 2 Marks Divide 30 by a half and add 10 70, 5 Marks A train is on a perfectly circular track. It travels at 30mph. If it goes clockwise, it takes 1hr 10mins, in the other 70 minutes. Why? They’re the same, 3 Marks If a doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long will they last? 1 hour., 2 Marks When can you add 'two' to 'eleven' and get 'one' as the correct answer? On a clock, 4 Marks

4. Aims Raise awareness of Maths
Know a little about where we are with teaching maths
Walk away with some ideas about how Maths and English can be embedded in your lessons

5. What is Maths
The abstract science of number, quantity, and space, either as abstract concepts (pure mathematics), or as applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering (applied mathematics).
Dictionary.com
Teaching maths has three strands
Develop fluency
Reason mathematically
Solve problems
The statutory programmes of study and attainment targets for mathematics at key stages 1 to 4.

6. Which is…. Arithmetic Shapes Measuring Time
Patterns and Sequences (ordering)
Statistics
Graphical Representation
Angles
Algebra
Co-ordinates
Ratios and percentages

7. Some Facts Staff aren’t confident
People think there is a right way to do things
Students hate it
Many students are very, very weak

8. Research
For engagement, context is everything. For success, discrete maths is all Transferability Students hate it

9. Why? It is necessary to function in society Use it or lose it.
Transferability
Employability
Fairness
Upriver of the school experience
Identified by OFSTED as a weakness

10. Starter and Plenaries

11. 1. Lateness How late are you? What time did you leave the house?
What time should you have left the house to be here on time?
How many buses are there an hour?
How many minutes late?
How long were you on the bus?
What time would you have got here if you’d caught the 7.55 bus?
15 minutes walk – how far is that?
“When’s break?”

12. 2. Marks Give students different marks per question Add up totals
Scale to marks out of ten
Percentage
Students put marks on a post it and stick on board
Sort into order
Mean
Mode
Median
Range
And you’re monitoring progress!

13. 3. Maps, Plans, Diagrams
Using maps and plans brings in plenty of maths such as measuring and scales

14. 4. Flowcharts Flowcharts can be used in two ways:
1. Ask students to create a flowchart
2. Give students a flowchart and ask them to follow it
Word has all the flowchart shapes if you have access to machines
e.g.
Dice Game You will need scrap paper and a pen to record

15. 5. Surveys Audience research Give numerical values Analysis Graphs
Stats
Mean
Mode
Median

16. 7. Estimating Bill Gates has $79.5billion
If hidden under his bed in dollar bills would it reach up to the moon?
Around 150,000 square kilometres of tropical rainforest, equivalent to the size of England and Wales, is destroyed every week
Is this true?
Annual sales of Guinness total 1.5 billion Imperial or 1.8 billion US pints
How long would it take Dave to drink it?

17. 8. Use Tables Tabular data is easy to perform maths on. Pub story
2 Pints of Carling
½ Guinness
Gin and tonic
Smirnov and splash of coke
Check your change.

18. 9. Dates and Times Use dates to reference data
How long since the internet was created?
How long has the queen been on the throne?
How long in minutes, seconds, days?
How long is it until break?
6050 seconds
Reverse it

19. 10. This is the news… Brexit England voted 53.4% for out
Scotland 62.4% remain
46,501,241 turn out
Trump
Clinton got 65,844,954 (48.2%)
Trump got 62,979,879 (46.1%)
Sport
Scores
League Tables
Extra time

20. 11. Maths in the everyday world
If something comes up, run with it.
Car insurance
Cost of the new iPhone
Petrol and small engines
Promotion perms and combs

21. 12. Use personal experiences
Lateness Break Counting stairs Pub story Research story There’s a shepherd in a field…

22. A Modest Proposal

23. Answers

24. Identify Opportunities
Last Thought
Identify Opportunities
Just keep it in mind!
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