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Badger Key Stage 4 Maths Starters: Year 11
How the publisher describes it:
“Contains starter activities with links to plenaries. This work includes a CD of Word files and a teacher book.”
Review by Peter Hall
In brief:
So a little disappointing really - for a teacher to go to the effort of finding the right page and copying to OHT or preparing electronically these ideas just don’t seem to be exciting enough. There are very few illustrations and the examples given are of reasonable quality but not really worth the trouble - and certainly not worth the price tag.
“Sadly, the ideas aren't really exciting enough. ”
This is a really good idea - a book with starter ideas for year 11. I’m sure I’m not alone in sometimes struggling to find something interesting for my classes to do at the start of lessons. This book contains 78 ideas, with a teacher’s page giving questions and the additional CD contains all the contents of the book in easy to use formats for those teachers fortunate enough to have a projector.
But, sadly, the ideas aren’t really exciting enough. Multiplying and dividing fractions offers two circles - one split into quarters and the other into sixths. A page on ratio gives a page with 12 boxes, each with a ratio in them. The accompanying questions are quite good, but more questions than answers and not quite enough help.
So a little disappointing really - for a teacher to go to the effort of finding the right page and copying to OHT or preparing electronically these ideas just don’t seem to be exciting enough. There are very few illustrations and the examples given are of reasonable quality but not really worth the trouble - and certainly not worth the price tag.
Peter Hall • AST Mathematics, Imberhorne School, East Grinstead
Spiral-bound: 144 pages
Publisher: Badger Publishing (Jun 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1844246426
ISBN-13: 978-1844246427
