Mathematical Concept Cards 2: The New Batch

Having been recently reminded about an activity I did in class last year by Mr Cavadino (see his blog post at wp.me/p34gWb-3c) I decided to try out the activity with some of my new classes in the last week of this half term.

To see my original post on the idea and discover the origins of it click on the below link:

http://mrcollinsmaths.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/mathematical-concepts-wall-for-want-of.html

So, here's the new display, with the best of the concept cards selected to go up here...

And here's some of my favourites that have been created this year by my students...

 I think this has to be my favourite one?

 Must be a fan of Dead or Alive?

I thought this one was hilarious - especially when Miley made an appearance!

 Maybe some confusions here as to what 'expressions' are, but the effort was commendable. Most other students in this class chose 'volume' and drew speakers etc

 Being a Marvel geek I loved this one, if only there were some Loci examples around it to go with it though...

 Nice use of both words here

 I wonder why the 'hundredth' was the one that was working out?

 Inspired by the examples I showed the class from last year.

 The best pie shop in the world...3.14 (brilliant)

 Hilarious!
 This one definitely thought outside the box

I am impressed with the creativity that came out of the classes I ran the activity with. There are a few I am waiting on with my Year 10 class too, so there may be some more to follow. Watch this space.

'Mathematical Concept Wall', the cards keep coming in!

At the start of the year I blogged about my 'Mathematics Concept Wall' and since it has become one of my most viewed posts this year. You can see the blog post here.

I also posted some examples of the Concept Wall Cards my students had produced here and here.

Well, since these posts I have had a whole host of other cards handed into me by my students. Some were done as an extension task for a cover lesson when I was on one of my county's NQT sessions, others were just done by my students in their own time. So, here's some other examples to add to the already excellent collection I have up on my classroom wall...

 I love the randomness of this one. Oh, and the 'clickity clack! clickity clack!'

Not strictly mathematical this one, but then neither was the 'Optimus Prime' card in the previous post!









I will definitely do this 'display' in coming years, refreshing the topics to choose from etc. My students have responded really well to the idea and enjoy creating their cards.

Mathematical Concept Wall - More Examples!

Here's some more examples of my students' Mathematical Concept Wall cards - some of them are just brilliant! To see my original post on the idea see http://mrcollinsmaths.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/mathematical-concepts-wall-for-want-of.html

Year 7:

Mathematical Concept Wall - Examples!

My Mathematical Concept Wall is coming together nicely. I have all of my year 7 cards to put up still and my Year 10s will be introduced to this soon too.

Here are a few examples of the work my students have produced so far and an overall look at the 'wall' (a work in progress)!

 Here's how the 'wall' is taking shape!

 A few Year 8 attempts!

Here's one of my Year 9 class' Pi pictures!












For more info on my Mathematical Concepts Wall see my previous blog post here. Also, see a fellow Mathematics teachers' blog with their Mathematical Concept cards they have been doing with their classes at http://mrcavswalloffame.wordpress.com/ - you can follow Mr Cavadino on Twitter too @srcav

Mathematical Concepts Wall (for want of a better name)

On Thursday I ventured into London with @kutrahmoore. We had different things to do whilst up there; I was attending a focus group meeting at the Manga High offices and she was off to a few galleries that she was intending to go to.
I thoroughly enjoyed the time spent at the Manga High offices and taking part in the focus group was a great experience having not done anything like this before. When we met back up to head home I was shown pictures of all the things @kutrahmoore had seen in the galleries and looked through the various handouts she acquired.

One of the best things I was shown was the 'Forum' wall at the Wellcome Collection in Euston. You can see their website here. The wall was made from loads of cards that were handed out to visitors to the collection. The cards were double sided, on one side there was a list of words and on the back a simple sentence on the bottom asking visitors to take one or two of the words on the reverse of the card and then to write/draw about them. The cards were then displayed on the wall in little boxes. Here's what the cards looked like...

 


Here are few pictures of some of the cards that were on display on the wall...

 



The cards were all centered around medicine I believe?





And here's an over view of the entire wall itself in the gallery...

 


I thought that this would work great in my classroom and that I could create something similar around the existing display board at the back of my classroom. So, I have created a Mathematics version of the idea above. I have taken key Mathematical words/concepts/ideas/topics from the topics I will be teaching my classes this term and have created a similar card as to the one that was used in the Wellcome collection. On the back of the card I've left plenty of space for my students to draw/write about the topic and then space for their name and year group. I plan to give my classes these cards at some point in the first few weeks, I'll also leave some spare cards at the back of the room on my bookcase (my students have a habit of fiddling with anything on the top of this and so are bound to notice them and then ask questions).
Here's the card that I have created...

I will plan to give one of my classes a card each to do as part of one of our lessons (maybe as a starter activity or end of lesson activity) and then this way it will 'get the ball rolling'.
As much as I'd love to have a similar 'box' style to the display, for now it may just be easier for me to blu-tack the cards to the wall!



I'll post some pictures of my 'Mathematical Concepts Wall' once it is in full flow...watch this space.