"Love using the Starter of the Day activities to get the students into Maths mode at the beginning of a lesson. We all often use the starters as the pupils come in the door and get settled as we take the register."Ĭomment recorded on the 1 August 'Starter of the Day' page by Peter Wright, St Joseph's College: How lovely that you have compiled such a great resource to help teachers and pupils.Ĭomment recorded on the 3 October 'Starter of the Day' page by Fiona Bray, Cams Hill School: I am going to show my maths department your website and encourage them to use it too. I have so much material to use in class and inspire me to try something a little different more often. "Thank you so much for your wonderful site. Is the collection available on CD? Are solutions available?"Ĭomment recorded on the 17 November 'Starter of the Day' page by Amy Thay, Coventry: "A really useful set of resources - thanks. Keep them coming please."Ĭomment recorded on the 10 April 'Starter of the Day' page by Mike Sendrove, Salt Grammar School, UK.: The variety of material is interesting and exciting and always engages the teacher and pupils. "My Primary 7 class in Mercy Primary school, Belfast, look forward to your mental maths starters every morning. The PICTURE is such an aid to remembering where each number or group of numbers is - my pupils love it!Ĭomment recorded on the 21 October 'Starter of the Day' page by Mr Trainor And His P7 Class(All Girls), Mercy Primary School, Belfast: "This is a great memory aid which could be used for formulae or key facts etc - in any subject area. Pupils should be taught to set up, solve and interpret the answers in growth and decay problems, including compound interest more.Ĭomment recorded on the 14 September 'Starter of the Day' page by Trish Bailey, Kingstone School: Pupils should be taught to interpret fractions and percentages as operators more. Pupils should be taught to define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’, interpret percentages and percentage changes as a fraction or a decimal, interpret these multiplicatively, express one quantity as a percentage of another, compare two quantities using percentages, and work with percentages greater than 100% more. Pupils should be taught to solve problems involving percentage change, including: percentage increase, decrease and original value problems and simple interest in financial mathematics more. Pupils should be taught to recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts. Pupils should be taught to solve problems involving the calculation of percentages and the use of percentages for comparison more. Pupils should be taught to solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of ½, ¼, ⅕, ⅖, ⅘ and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25 more. Pupils should be taught to recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal more. Square Root of 1%: What is the square root of one percent? Rich or Poor?: An interesting outcome of percentage increase and decrease Hundred and Fifty Percent: Divide 110 into two parts so that the larger part is 150% of the smaller part. Grandmother: How far would grandma have travelled after a suitably large number of days given her walking regime? Structured Settlement: Without a calculator match a a pie slice to a calculation to an answer.ĭouble or Half?: At ten percent change per day is doubling achieved faster than halving? One scheme involves a common misconception about percentages. Sid's Schemes: Work out which is the best scheme for Sid to choose for his summer bonus. Scaramouche: Can you work out from the five clues given what the mystery number is? Quick Percentages: Simple percentage questions appear on screen then fade every 8 seconds. PercenTable: Complete the table by calculating common percentages without using a calculator. Odd Percent Out: A number of simple percentage calculations are given. In Your Head: Here are the simple percentage calculations everyone should be able to do in their heads. High Interest: Finding a good personal loan requires an ability to calculate percentage and this page provides some practice. Estimating Percentages: Estimate the percentages of full circles and rectangles the sectors represent.įractions Decimals Percentages: Convert fractions to decimals, decimals to percentages and percentages to fractions.
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