Numeracy: Ratio & Proportion

A fantatsic lesson, I am not sure where to find the smartbook notebook which should be provided as is mentioned in the accompanying notes. If someone could help me that would be great.

An inspirational lesson. Will make more of an effort to use ICT as children clearly loved it as a tool for learning. Very impressed with the quality of teaching.

Found this very useful. Think I will try something similar next time I teach the topics.

Really helpful ideas presented in a very clear way.

Will get using some with my class.

A good programme and lesson. I have used similar material before, but without the ICT input- will try again now that I have IWB and Digi camera. When I used similar material I extended it to include work on huts in Tanzania. These traditional Chagga huts were constructed by using body measurements. An arm span, or Laa, was used to construct the height of a door, 2-3 Laas were used for the radius of the huts floor space and a head circumference was used for the door width. Details and photocopy worksheets can be found in Activity Maths 5 by Dave Miller. These books were designed for secondary schools but I have used many activities in upper Key stage 2. It should be noted that childrens body proportions might differ as Leonardos drawing is based on an adult I found this to be so when I worked with different classes.

Found this a very interesting programme. I thought the work on proportion was particularly well-planned and creative. The children seemed highly motivated and keen to participate, though undoubtedly the small group of learners made the lesson management more straightforward. As an ICT co-ordinator I'm always interested in how other teachers use ICT in lessons but I'm also aware that practical maths equipment still has an important role in lessons. In the introduction to the work on ratio it would have been good to see the children with physical blocks in their hands as well as the images in the presentation software. Thought the 'smoothie' plenary worked well and definitely gave me 'food for thought'. I hope to incorporate some of these ideas into the learning in my classroom in the near future.