What are we doing today?

• Listening to Ms Allan's welcome message about the learning habits, classroom culture and the importance of leadership.
• Selecting four class leaders who will meet once a week at lunch time with Ms Allan and the leaders of her other three classes.
• Creating a Google site which will be used to store evidence of learning, goals and reflections throughout the year.
• Joining the google classroom for this mathematics class. Year 9 Codes & Year 10 Codes.

What are we learning today?

• How the learning habits and collaboration drive success.
• Student voice helps Ms Allan provide her students with a learning environment which works for them.
• The student leaders will help Ms Allan with seating plans, behavior management, eating and drinking rules, student requests for change and negotiating homework requirements. If students do not wish to talk with Ms Allan directly, they can talk to one of the student leaders. The leaders might change during the year. The leaders might present their leadership journey to other teachers at the end of term three.
• How to create a google site, add pages, text, pictures and video.
• Where to find the course documents and resources.
• Students come with different prior knowledge and learn in different ways and at different rates. The Google Sites allow Ms Allan to see each students learning journey, and this means students are not all expected to do the same work. All students are expected to learn mathematics and to ask for help when they are struggling.

What homework do we have?

• Write your mathematical story, and vision for this year. This needs to be at least 50 words long. Sentences should start with a capital letter and end with a full stop. The questions below might help you think of what to write if you get stuck.
• What helps you feel welcomed?
• What strengths do you bring to classrooms?
• Who believes you can succeed?
• What do you expect from your teacher?
• What is your best way of learning?
• What happens in school that makes you afraid? Frustrated? Defeated?

What are we doing today?

• DO NOW: 10% of a number is 10. What is the number?
• DO NOW: 1% of a number is 1. What is the number?
• DO NOW: 50% of a number is 25. What is the number?
• DO NOW: 1.5% of a number is 18. What is the number?
• Learning how to play prime climb.
• Writing a reflection on our learning on our Google sites.
• Ensuring we have all submitted the published link of our Google Site to Google Classroom.

What are we learning today?

• How to solve 'backwards' percentage problems.
• How to simply a problem in order to solve it. Thinking flexibly. If 1.5% of a number is 18, then 1% of the number would be 12. How did I know that? I saw that three times 0.5% is 1.5% and three times 6 is 18. Why did I do that? Because 1% is easier for me to work with. DO NOW: 1% of a number is 12. What is the number? Answer 12*100=1200
• Prime factorization.
• The importance of routine reflection to consolidate and retain learning.
• The importance of learning through play.

What homework do we have?

• Complete writing your reflection about today's lesson.
• Complete this percentages task. https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Percentages.asp
• Complete this form if you won today playing primeclimb: Prime Climb Winners

What are we doing today?

• Review what we already know about fractions, decimals and percentages.
• In groups creating a google slide presentation which explains the similarities and differences between fractions, decimals and percentages. How do we convert a fraction to a decimal? etc.
• In the same groups brainstorm ideas about creating a mathematical game which would help develop number skills.

What are we learning today?

• Fractions, decimals and percentages are different ways of expressing numbers which are not "counting" numbers, or "whole" numbers.
• How to convert from one form to another form.
• There are conversions which everyone needs to remember.
• Prime Climb can help us understand equivalent fractions.
• https://www.transum.org/Maths/Activity/FractionDecimalPercentage/

What homework do we have?

• Learn these if you do not already know them.
• One half = 1/2 = 50/100 = 50% = 0.5 = 0.50
• One third = 1/3 = 33.333/100 = 33.333% = 0.33333333333333 (Tricky One)
• One quarter = 1/4 = 25/100 = 25% = 0.25
• One fifth = 1/5 = 2/10 = 20/100 = 20% = 0.2 = 0.20
• Notice that as the denominator get larger, the fraction gets smaller? 1/100 is tiny compared to 1/2 for example.
• Reflect on your learning by writing at least 3 sentences on your Google Site.
• Find out what the infinity sign looks like. Use google.
• Complete your Google Slide about Fractions Decimals & Percentages

What are we doing today?

• Adding Fractions
• Talking about the mathematics in Prime Climb
• Playing Prime Climb

What are we learning today?

• How to add fractions by getting a common denominator first.
• BEDMAS, composite numbers, prime factorization, strategy.
• Our times tables.

What homework do we have?

• Write a reflection about todays lesson on your Google Site. At least three sentences.

Tuesday: Powers & Word Problems

• Powers - Indices - Exponents
  • Level 1 - Evaluating simple positive indices without a calculator
  • Level 2 - Evaluating positive indices with a calculator
  • Level 3 - Evaluating negative and zero indices
  • Level 4 - Evaluating indices expressed as fractions
  • Level 5 - Mixed questions involving integer, negative and fractional indices
  • Level 6 - Multiplying, dividing and raising to another power
  • Level 7 - Solving simple equations involving indices
• Percentages
  • Percentage Change Word Problems

Wednesday: Surds & Fraction Word Problems

• Surds
• Level 1 - Addition of mixed numbers.
• Level 2 - Subtraction of mixed numbers.
• Level 3 - Multiplication of mixed numbers.
• Level 4 - Division of mixed numbers.
• Level 5 - A variety mixed number questions with words and diagrams!

Thursday: Prime Climb (Note: Student on camp will get less lessons so will miss out on playing prime climb).

• Bedmas

What are we doing today?

• Transum Prime Factor Trees
• HCF
• LCM
• Revise Bedmas
• Transum Algebraic Fractions (Extra for Experts)

What are we learning today?

• Prime factorization using factor trees.

What homework do we have?

• Spend 20 minutes working in your learning workbook in the Number Chapter. You can choose the exercises.

Tuesday: Integers & Adding Fractions & Word Problems

Wednesday: Integers & Multiplying Fractions & Word Problems

• Adding Fractions
  • Level 1 - Adding two fractions with the same denominators.
  • Level 2 - Adding two fractions with a common denominator.
  • Level 3 - Adding two fractions with random denominators.
  • Level 4 - Subtracting two fractions with the same denominators.
  • Level 5 - Subtracting two fractions with a common denominator.
  • Level 6 - Subtracting two fractions with random denominators.
  • Level 7 - Multiplying two fractions.
  • Level 8 - Dividing one fraction by another.
  • Level 9 - Mixed fraction calculations.
• Integers
  • Temperatures
  • Integer Rules
  • Level 1 - Simple subtraction. Example: 5 - 12
  • Level 2 - Adding to a negative number. Example: -7 + 9
  • Level 3 - Addition and Subtraction. Example: -10 + -2
  • Level 4 - Multiplication. Example: -3 x 2
  • Level 5 - Division. Example: -10 ÷ 5
  • Level 6 - Substitution. Example: If a=-3 and b=-7 evaluate 7a - 8b - 6
  • Level 7 - Mixed. Example: A mixed set of word problems
• Maths is fun Notes & Exercise
• More Activities
• Topic Test

Monday 4th March - Ratio & Revision

Wednesday - Ratio & Proportion & Revision (if Athletics day is cancelled).

• Revision
• Learning Workbooks
• Last years assessment

Assessment Expected Skills Check List:

• ratio and proportion
• factors, multiples, powers and roots
• integer and fractional powers applied to numbers
• fractions, decimals and percentages
• rates
• rounding with decimal places and significant figures
• standard form
• Word Problems

We will spend time going over the 2018 common test - available through Google Classroom.

Paper test common to all Year 9 & 10 classes covering levels 3 to 6 of the NZC.