Words - Can you make them make sense in Maths?

What do we know from reading that we can apply to maths?

• We can find the key ideas or information (What we already know after reading the question)
• We can find out what we need to know!

In this particular lesson, students are being shown how to use a tree diagram to organise the choices or options available from the question.

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Squares Squares and more Squares

What is a square to you? Have you ever really looked at squared numbers?

I was once teaching students about multiplication using grid paper. We create 2x8, 3x8 and many more to help students understand their times' tables with a display. When we realised the 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 (yes, I did know they were called squared numbers), students kept coming and saying, 'this one is a square'. And I knew I had to use this student-created realisation and build on it for them. 

Teaching Year 7 and 8 students who again know about squares but didn't know about the 'power of' was an opportunity to bring this back to life. Especially when we also had to look into square roots, the opposite of squares.

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