Starter Activities for Maths Lessons in Year 8

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Age Range: KS3

Engage your students’ attention and reinforce their learning with these maths starter activities. Lively, interactive Year 8 Maths worksheets take 10 to 15 minutes to complete and focus on specific Numeracy Framework objectives. These Year 8 Maths starters are a successor to our best-selling Year 7 pack. Resources are suitable for Key Stage 3 students of a wide range of abilities.

Lesson plans and worksheets are sub-divided into six sections: Applying mathematics to solve problems; Numbers and the number system; Calculation; Algebra; Shape, Space and Measure; Handling Data.

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Size: 81 Pages
ISBN: 978 1 86025 515 1
Author(s): Andrew Chapman
Code: SAM8
Popularity rank: 26
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Contents List

LESSON PLANS/WORKSHEETS

4 GENERAL GUIDELINES

APPLYING MATHEMATICS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

10 Problem-solving words
11 Problem-solving 5-4-3-2-1
12 Stages of an investigation (Line segments) - Resource page: 54, 55
13 Euler’s theorem - Resource page: 56
14 Areas of rectangle, parallelogram & triangle - Resource page: 57
15 Areas of parallelogram & trapezium - Resource page: 58

NUMBERS AND THE NUMBER SYSTEM

16 Prime Factors - Resource page: 59
17 Ordering Fractions - Resource page: 60
18 Fractions and decimals 1 to 10
19 Percentages, decimals, fractions - Resource page: 61
20 Equivalent ratios - Resource page: 62
21 Dividing in a given ratio - Resource page: 63
22 Direct proportion - Resource page: 64
23 Fifteen to one - Resource page: 65
24 Types of number - Resource page: 66–69

CALCULATION

25 Multiplying by brackets - Resource page: 70
26 Multiplying decimals - Resource page: 71
27 Dividing decimals - Resource page: 72
28 Approximations - Resource page: 73

ALGEBRA

29 Algebra words
30 Using symbols - Resource page: 74
31 Equations - Resource page: 75
32 Algebra bingo - Resource page: 76
33 The nth term - Resource page: 77
34 Battleships using battle lines - Resource page: 78

SHAPE, SPACE AND MEASURES

35 Parallel lines - Resource page: 79
36 Enlargement and congruence - Resource page: 80
37 Lines and angles words
38 Midpoint of a line segment - Resource page: 81
39 Loci - Resource page: 82
40 Three figure bearings - Resource page: 83
41 Areas of parallelograms & triangles - Resource page: 84
42 Measures 5-4-3-2-1

HANDLING DATA

43 Handling data words
44 Handling data 5-4-3-2-1
45 Stem-and-leaf diagrams - Resource page: 85–86
46 Types of graph - Resource page: 87
47 Mean, median, mode, range of a frequency table - Resource page: 88
48 Comparing average and spread - Resource page: 89
49 Probability - Resource page: 90

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04/09/07

Simon Davis at n/a

Am really impressed so far. Working well with kids whose attention span is somewhat limited! Clear lesson plans and excellent resources that take a bit of the sting out of planning leaving me more time to access myspace during PPA sessions!

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