Functional Maths across the Curriculum

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Functional Maths across the Curriculum
Easy and interesting ways to embed functional
maths and cross-curricular work into schemes of
learning.

• Caroline Brooke
• Beverley High School

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Beverley High School

• Beverley High is an outstanding 11 18
• comprehensive school, which is girls only to
• 16 and then mixed to 18 as part of the joint
• sixth form with Beverley Grammar School,
• a nearby boys comprehensive. We are 5
• form entry with approx 140 pupils in each
• year.

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Beverley High School

• Beverley is a market town whose population
• is largely lower middle class or upper working
• class. Within catchment there is one area of
• social housing from which a number of IMD
• pupils are drawn.

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Beverley High School

• The community that we serve is mono-ethnic
• being largely of white British background. In
• comparison with other East Riding secondary
• schools we have the highest proportion of
• non-white British pupils.

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Maths Department

• 7 Members of the department
• Head of Department
• Assessment and Intervention Coordinator
• Assistant Headteacher
• 2 Full time teachers
• 2 Part time teachers

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Results

• Compared to the English Department our results
  were always lower.

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Pupils View of Maths

• Need to do it
• Boring
• Hard
• Qualification not skills needed
• Preferred English

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Objectives for Changes

• To raise pupils levels of enjoyment in Maths.
• To raise pupils attainment in Maths.
• Increase cross-curricular projects to help
  implementation of the new National Curriculum.
• Increase amount of Functional Maths in the
  curriculum.

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Start

• Announcement of the end of KS3 SATs
• Focus on cross-curricular work from new National
  Curriculum
• STEM agenda
• PSE approached us to work with pfeg to help
  deliver the financial capability entitlement
• Functional Maths coming online

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Projects

• Work with pfeg
• http//www.pfeg.org/
• Bowland
• http//www.bowlandmaths.org.uk/

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pfeg
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pfeg

• Every school is entitled to support from a
  consultant
• Free resources all trialled by pfeg and schools

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Projects

• Design a bedroom Y8
• Personal Finance Y10

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Bowland Maths
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BOWLAND Maths

• Choose suitable tasks which were relevant to our
  pupils
• Choose tasks that didnt need ICT

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• Year 7 My Music and Water Availability
• Year 8 Keeping the Pizza Hot and Crash Test
• Year 9 How Risky is Life? and Highway Link
  Design

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Organisation

• Looked at each chosen project and how we could
  link with other subjects
• Collapse groups and teach in mixed ability tutor
  groups
• Fit Bowland projects around other departments and
  we move our topics to fit around

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My Music

• Looking at using beats per minute of songs to
  form and test a hypothesis
• Music teaches the first lesson how to count
  beats per minute and different genures of music
• We look at collecting data and analysing
• ICT teach the final lessons using Audacity to
  look at the effect of changing the rate of music

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Water Availability

• As groups form arguments as to why your country
  deserves the charity funding for water
  development
• The week before we deliver the project Geography
  teaches two lessons looking at the three
  countries (Algeria, Turkey and Jordan) and the
  importance of water to people and countries.

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Keeping the Pizza Hot?

• This project looks at the cooling times of pizzas
• The week before food technology made and cooked
  pizzas. They then used data loggers and
  thermometers.
• Pupils then analyse this data.

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How Risky is Life?

• Pupils look at the real risks in life and compare
  real data with the stories portrayed in the
  media.
• The first lesson is taught in PSE lessons as part
  of the risk entitlement of the National
  Curriculum. Pupils look at their perceptions of
  risk and which causes are the most risky.
• The pupils then analyse real data and the
  probabilities of dying.

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How Risky is Life?
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Next

• Increase in cross-curricular themes for Bowland
• Introduction of Cre8ate Maths
• PE project

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Cre8ate Maths
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Cre8te Maths

• Using as key tasks starters and plenaries
• Using them to coincide with cross-curricular
  themes e.g. Election, World Cup

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PE project

• PE collect fitness data
• Record and analyse data
• Present to PE

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History of Maths

• www.toothill.notts.sch.uk/data/files/dept/maths/y7
  _n1_history.ppt
• History to teach Romans
• Each tutor group to take a period in the history
  of maths