Archive for February, 2009

27th Feb 2009

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Today we are learning to … add algebraic fractions.

Page 147, Ex4B – ques. 2, 3, 4, 7

QUADRATICS – Revised :

1.  Factorising ax2 + bx + c

2.  Solving ax2 + bx + c = 0

Then we began discussing how to sketch y = ax2 + bx + c.

27th Feb 2009

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Today we are learning to … find the area of a quadrilateral.

MiA2: Page 233, Revison – ques. 4 (+ calculate the area of each shape)

27th Feb 2009

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Today we are learning to … make the net of a shape.

Using PolydronTM Sphera, pupils constructed a cylinder.

We deconstructed the cube, pyramid, cuboid, cylinder and a prism to see the nets that they give.

26th Feb 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Today we are learning to … find the area of a quadrilateral.

MiA2: Page 233, Revision – calculate the area of the shapes in ques. 4

NOTE on area of quadrilaterals.

26th Feb 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Today we are learning to … create a survey.

Discussed the format of the survey and how it’ll be executed.  

Went on to the PCs and started typing up the questionnaire.

26th Feb 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Today we are learning to … add algebraic fractions.

Page 145, Ex3B – ques. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10

Page 147, Ex4A – ques. 3, 4, 6

Page 147, Ex4B – ques. 2, 3, 4, 7

25th Feb 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Today we are learning to … create a survey.

Discussed what we would like to find out and then how to conduct a survey:

1)  What is your favourite subject?

2)  In which subject do you have to work hardest?

26th Feb 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Today we are learning to … find the area of a quadrilateral.

MiA3A:  Page 138, Ex7 – ques. 5, 6b

Page 141, Check-Up – ques. 1, 4

25th Feb 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Today we are learning to … make the net of a shape.

Using PolydronTM, pupils constructed a cube, a pyramid, a cuboid and a prism.

We deconstructed the cube to see all the different nets that could be made.

24th Feb 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Today we are learning to … add algebraic fractions.

Page 144, Ex3A – ques. 4, 6, 8

HOMEWORK for Friday:

http://www.mymaths.co.uk/gold/simplify/addingFractionsOH.html