Maths Puzzles

I’ve been using math puzzles in lessons to inspire and engage the students. Instead of showing a key question, students have been solving math puzzles and working out the questions themselves! This then leads onto some meaningful and detailed discussions.

The boys love the competition and the use of colour coding each word makes it easier for students to focus on the math and get the discussions started quicker!

Sarah Cook

Solo Taxonomy

Solo Taxonomy is a great way to encourage pupils to reflect on their level of learning.

Using the hexagons in lessons, will help pupils to visualise the links they make between themes, ideas, characters etc. They can be differentiated so that lower ability pupils have a set of words given to them, while G&T would be encouraged to come up with their own words to link together.

Pupils working at the “Multistructural” stage are most likely to be your D grade pupils.

“Relational” is your C-B grades.

“Extended Abstract” is your A-A*s

I use Solo with pupils so that they become aware of how much analysis they put into their work and relate this back to the levels of learning - is their level of analysis enough to push them to a C grade (Relational Learning)? What do they need to do with their thoughts/hexagons to extend their answers (Extended Abstract)?

Elizabeth Hough