CONTEXT FIRST
Teaching Resources that promote conceptual motivation
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The focus of all of the resources on this website is to promote conceptual understanding by starting with context first. This makes them ideal low threshold, high ceiling lessons. Please read the notes below on how to use them. These resources and this idea is new and untested so feedback is welcomed!
For now, these resources are for Mathematics only.
All resources are:
Completely free and available on this website.
Set to the same widescreen layout.
Have a title at the top of each slide so students know what each slide is about.
Have instruction tiles in the top right corner for you and your students.
Have prompts in yellow speech bubbles to assist explanations and allow students to follow.
Any activities featured come with the answers included as an animation.
They are aimed 'down the middle' with the early slides being suitable for increasing understanding in low attainers and the later slides good extension for high attainers.
A couple of things worth noting:
The slides are designed to be answered off the board. If you need to print a copy of the slides for your students, be sure to delete the answers first!
Some of the lessons have several small mastery steps combined into one. This can make them rather long to complete in one lesson. I would recommend picking and choosing the activities based on attainment level of the class.
There are many resources out there who do procedural and progressive practice much better than I, so I have not spent time focusing on that and would recommend seeking these out to pair with these resources to provide a rounded lesson (again based on attainment level)
Some of the questions within the resources are not of my own design and have been borrowed from other sources.
If you're interested in the rationale and features included in each lesson, there is a guide on each at the bottom of this page or please click guides section in the menu at the top of the page