Uisng Nearpod for Year 11 Maths Revision

Today, another member of my department shared a fabulous Algebra Problem Solving pdf document.  I did not want to print out the document for students and realised they would all attempt the problems at varying speeds and with varying success. I therefore uploaded the pdf into my nearpod library. This was incredibly easy and ensures all students can work at their own speed.
I love nearpod !!!

Nearpod

How fabulous is Nearpod? Thank you Nikki for introducing it to me. I have now created a presentation for my department to read through at their own pace on a teacher training day. It will show them how to get started using the ipads in their classrooms and all the apps I have used so far.

Geoboard

Year 11 have been using 'Geoboard' to produce solutions to the following problems:-

'Can you draw a shape with an area of 4 cm squared? What perimeter does your shape have?'
'Can you draw a shape with a Perimeter of 12cm?'
'Draw a shape with area of 6cm squared that is not a rectangle?'
'How many shapes can you draw with area 10 cm?'




Feedback from students has been:-

7/10
www - You could use desent size tables and shapes
EBI - Easier to put the elasti at the bottom

www - because its easier to use and not complicated
EBI - triangles was tricky

www - helped me to understand the concept of how to stretch different angles
EBI  - triangles needed to be easier to stretch

www - it is a good app to be able to test adn find areas of different shapes

Year 10 have been using the GCSE Number app to support their learning in the topic of Ratio and Proportion.

Students answered the following question: Was it helpful using the iPad for learning and understanding. The responses have been as follows:

"I could check my answer straight away"
"Yes, because it gives you multiple answers so know if you'd gone wrong"
"Yes, but I like the way we do it without an app too, but the app lets me know if I'm right or not"
"Yes, it helped me to check my answers and showed me a correct solution"
"It's good as it explains how to work out the questions"
"I really liked using this app as it let me use what I had learnt in an exam context"
"Yes but only after questions in the book to get practice for those harder questions on the app"

An evaluation of the iPads from Mrs Hogans class:-

 I have been using the i pads this week for graph work and we have used the Desmos app. Students have found it useful to do the following this week; check that the graphs they have plotted are correct, check that the equation they think belongs to a graph is correct, used it for 'quick plotting' to investigate the gradient and intercept of various different straight line equations. 

I borrowed them for 2 lessons- the first I gave one to each table and got them to investigate the gradient and intercept, the 2nd lesson I did not give them out but told students if they wanted to take an ipad to check their work then to do so. All were used but not all pairs chose to take one, it was great to just be able to have them available for use (like I would suggest students use a calculator) without them being the focus of the lesson. 

I have booked them again next week for work on perpendicular lines and I expect to follow a similar structure. 

Transformation app feedback from Mrs Hill's group

Mrs Hill has been using the transformation app with her students. Mrs Hill particularly likes the Rotation element as you can see the tracing paper moving. Their evaluations are:-

Desmos app alternative to autograph

Mr Turner has been using the app 'Desmos' as an alternative to autograph which can only be used on the desktop computers. This app allows students to plot graphs and discover how graphs are transformed. For example to transform y=x^2 into y=(x+a)^2 +b is a translation
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Here are some of the students evaluations of the app.