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Designing Candy Cartons

Lesson Plan: A problem-solving activity involving 3D shapes and nets. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 11-14 years. Hardware: iPads (1 per class or student). Software: Socrative or Classflow, Apple airsever or Showme and Reflector software. Functionalities of Technology: Sending and Displaying, Processing and Analysing. Time needed: 3 hours. FaSMEd Partner: University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Summary:…
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Developing a sense of scale

Lesson Plan: A problem-solving activity involving students recognising the relationships of direct proportions. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 11-14 years. Hardware: Tablets (iPad 1 per class or student). Software: Socrative or Classflow + Apple airserver, OR Showme and Reflector, OR Plickers. Functionalities of Technology: Sending and displaying, Processing and analysing. Time needed: 2-3 hours. FaSMEd…
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Security Cameras

Lesson Plan: A problem-solving activity about optimisation involving the construction and calculation of areas and the comparison of percentages. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 11-14 years. Hardware: Tablets (iPad 1 per class or student). Software: Socrative or Classflow Apple airserver OR Showme and Reflector OR Plickers. Functionalities of Technology: Sending and displaying Processing and analysing….
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Selling Soup

Lesson Plan: A problem-solving activity about proportional relationships and the ratio concept in the context of maximising profit. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 11-14 years. Hardware: Tablets (iPad 1 per class or student). Software: Socrative or Classflow + Apple airserver OR Showme and Reflector OR Plickers. Functionalities of Technology: Sending and displaying Processing and analysing….
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Sharing costs travelling to school

Lesson Plan: A problem-solving activity about understanding the ratio concept and mathematical reasoning. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 11-14 years. Hardware: Tablets (iPad 1 per class or student). Software: Socrative or Classflow + Apple airserver, OR Showme and Reflector, OR Plickers. Functionalities of Technology: Sending and displaying, Processing and analysing. Time needed: 2-3 hours. FaSMEd…
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The ‘Magic V’ investigation

Lesson Account: An inquiry based lesson involving number. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 13-14 years. Hardware: iPads for students Interactive whiteboard. Software: Nearpod (connected classroom technology). Functionalities: Sending and Displaying. Time needed: 1 hour. FaSMEd Partner: The University of Nottingham. Summary The lesson focused on an investigation, using positive integers only but requiring students to…
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The Meatball problem

Lesson Account: A problem-solving lesson using the concepts of volume, capacity and surface area. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 14-15 years. Hardware: iPads – with Internet access – for students Interactive whiteboard. Software: Google forms (student response system), Showbie (connected classroom technology),         Explain Everything (optional). Functionalities of Technology: Sending and Displaying. Time needed:…
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Formative assessment in Science and
Mathematics Education (FaSMEd)
The Research Centre for Learning and Teaching
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
UK

Email: fasmed@ncl.ac.uk