Christmaths. The Gauss Christmath Special. Christmas Shading Graphical Inequalities. 2014 Christmas Maths / Math Lessons | Solve My Maths. OK, so it’s not Christmas YET, and I know it’s still November, but for the next seven days leading up to December 1st I’ll be posting Christmas lesson ideas (and resources) that I’ve written over the last two weeks. I’m doing this because if you want to use these, you need them before you deliver them. So… Lesson 1: The Christmas Pixel Puzzle A set of seven Christmas pixel-art inspired translation problems. The spreadsheets used to make them are all in this excel file. Including the answers to a couple of the problems. Lesson 2: Concentric Carol Circles Ever wondered which carols are the hardest to sing for boys compared to girls? This lesson is particularly awesome because students get to use a COMPASS (a pair of compasses for you traditionalists).
If you’re worried about how much card you could end up using. you could do two-tone infographics that use just two types of card, or get students to draw all the circles onto one piece of white card then colour in alternate rings. Like this: 246. ChrisMaths Cheer | Maths Sandpit. My Favourite Resources: Christmaths | ideasfortheclassroom. T’is the season to be jolly/ bah humbug [delete as appropriate] so I thought I’d do a topical post of my favourite resources for the festive season. Radders rules say no DVD lessons so all pre Christmas classes must involve some Maths. Here’s the best Christmaths activities I’ve found. I’ve given credit where I can remember where I sourced the activities but there are some which have ended up on my hard drive and I’ve no idea who to credit; if it’s you please let me know and I’ll rectify! Who killed Santa? Ed Southall You can follow Ed on Twitter; he has made some lovely resources and shared them here Christmas Advent Calendars The NRich website publishes an annual advent calendar, their 2014 one is here and you can find older versions here. 10 ticks I’m not a fan of giving pupils the massively long 10 ticks sheets but do use them to crop a few questions to use in class.
Starters A series of Mathematical starter activities from Transum. Calculus Carol Just because…lyrics are here. Age of Puzzles - Christmas-tree Strimko.