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Session 7 Piara Waters - Andrea and Jasmine and Vanessa! Year 7 Maths

by Andrea Rassell,

Warm Up (one photo)

“If fractions were animals, what would they be—and why?”
Write or draw your metaphor (e.g. “A fraction is like a chameleon because it can look different but be the same value.”)

Prompts:

“Decimals are like…”
“Numbers are like…”
“Letters are like…”

Main Activity (one photo)

Visualisation of food scarcity activity

Work in your rows
Choose ONE problem from the table below and calculate x

Problem

Algebraic formula

From session 5 on food waste:

Aldi wastes twice as much food as IGA

How much does IGA waste if Aldi wastes 25 000 tonnes?

Let x = IGA

2x = 25 000

x = ?

From session 4 on recipe scaling:

You have a recipe for 10 people

The recipe calls for 500g flour

How much flour do you need to feed 2 people?

Let x = the new amount of flour

5x = 500

x = ?

Make a visualisation in Canva of your selected problem (no templates allowed, use your imaginations!)

Use the photos we took last week
What visual properties might we use?

Scale
Quantity (number of fruit/veges)
Spatial relationship (where the fruits/veges are in relation to one another)
Colour

4. Share the editable file/link with Ms Ritchie!

Reflection with the students (one photo)

Added sand from today’s creative habits 5 min - imagination, inquisitiveness, collaboration.

After the session:

Planning with the Teacher
(refer back to your original Term Plan document, discuss successes, explore challenges and make changes.)

The ones whose challenges in the class are not academic creative activities are a bridge to engage more.

For those who have behavioural challenges, the loss of structure means he does nothing. Need to find ways to integrate structure. E.g., work with the person next to you. Or short achievable goals, different amount to others, more regularly.

Working with students
(what is emerging, what is engaging them/not, what’s making them curious.)

They enjoyed manipulating things, enjoyed seeing the product of the previous week’s photos.

Ideas moving forward
(ideas for next session, future lessons, discussed with teacher, do you need the teacher to do anything before you return.)

One Note, we will share the handouts and chunk them for the individual levels of students.

I.e. Here is the page for everyone, includes smaller steps, then have a separate document with extensions for advanced students.

Next session sound based, a third type of representation (after tactile (rice/lentils) & images of food).

Resources
(do you need anything, who will source it?)

Andrea to provide recorder and microphone for next week. Nothing else needed.

How can you share learning outcomes/stories of transformation with the wider school community (e.g. Connect newsletter, staff meeting, school newsletter, school social media platforms)

School facebook

Compass (intranet) to raise awareness with families

Andrea and Jasmine to share photos with each other via google drive