Earlier this month I put up these digits of pi posters in the hallway outside my classroom.
They sparked a lot of great questions and conversations with my students, other students, and other teachers in the building. I blogged about some of these conversations here. In case anyone may be interested, I thought I'd share the file I used. To create the posters, all I did was google the first 1,000 digits of pi, which I copied and pasted into a Word document. I enlarged them until each digit filled a page and I added the ellipsis at the end of the document. After determining that I could fit a 7 by 14 array of digits on the wall, I needed to print the first 97 pages of the document, plus page 1,003 for the ellipsis.
I used my Word document of poster pages to determine the pattern of numbers where I would stop - so I looked at pages 93-97 to know that I was ending with the digits 3, 4, 2, 1, 1. Here are a few more printing tips: View/Download: First 1000 Digits of Pi Posters. Artful Maths - Home. Free Teaching Resources Display Lettering Sets. Printable Alphabet Maths themed Lettering Sets, brighten up your classroom with these free resources! Countdown Letters and Numbers Game. A printable version of the classic TV show, Countdown.
There are 4 letters to an A4 page and we’ve sorted them from most, to least common. With the numbers game, you have the small numbers (1-10) and the big numbers (25,50,75,100). There’s a digital style set of numbers too, for creating a target. You can learn more about the rules and play online here. To reward Countdown champions, why not take a look at our accompanying Countdown Certificates resource? File type: Zip File size: 1.3 MB Suitable for: KS1/KS2 Downloads: 1,427 Download. A new start – setting up a new classroom. The learning profession. I’m starting full time at a new school in September and I think it’s really important to take ownership of the classroom I’ll be spending a lot of time teaching in.
Consequently, I’ve spent a few days in school this summer rearranging the furniture (I love a horseshoe) and putting up my own displays. My aim was to create displays that will be easy to read; can be referred to and won’t have to be redone at regular intervals. A to Z of Careers — Learning and Teaching. Maths Classroom Displays. Welcome to my 14th weekly gems post - this is where I feature five of the best teaching ideas I've seen on Twitter each week.
You may or may not know that I've been writing these posts while I've been at home on maternity leave. My baby keeps me busy during the day, but my evenings are blissfully free from marking and lesson planning so I have a rare opportunity to reflect on my teaching and gather new ideas. It's a shame that all teachers can't take a mini-sabbatical every five years to do the same. When I go back to work in January I'll have 100 maths teaching gems in my toolkit - it will hard to know where to start! 1. Two Truths and a Lie is traditionally an icebreaker game - someone tells you three facts about themselves and you guess which one is the lie.
This idea came from a tweet by @TCM_at_NCTM: The two truths about quadrilaterals ('a square is a rectangle' and 'a rectangle is a parallelogram') will also prompt interesting discussions about definitions. 2. 3. 4. Maths Propaganda poster campaign. Maths Periodic Table. Maths Periodic Table I’ve been doing a few exciting projects recently and in between we’ve been sorting the new maths corridor out.
As a result I’ve been panicking a tad about my own classroom displays (I think I’m sorted now as a few of you emailed me some great ideas!) I have 7 boards, and the whole wall of boards at the back of the room are now sorted. Thanks in the main to Paul Sutherland (@paulsuvs) who kindly shared his maths periodic table with me that he was working on. The idea is based on an idea in an English classroom from James Theobald (@James Theo) and I absolutely love it … So I’ve followed Pauls lead in terms of some of the content and some online maths dictionaries came in handy. Maths Periodic Table.