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This is the first in the ALL ABOUT SCALE sequence of lesson packs.
Watch the video http://bit.ly/ScalePaperAirplanes. The video gives instructions for making the planes but you can use your own design. Using scrap paper is more planet friendly.
Make enlargements of the coloured shapes by fitting together four identical smaller shapes.
How much longer are the edges (the linear scale factor of the enlargement)?
How much bigger is the area (the area scale factor of the enlargement)?
Now look at the illustration of the 3-dimensional solids. One is […]
What do you know about robots? What are drones? Are driver-less cars actually robots? What do you think about robots that move around warehouses to pick up and carry loads from place to place or control complicated machinery in factories? What do you think about robots that mow lawns and clean floors?
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Watch this turtle. Describe his path.
What commands would you give to make the turtle do this?
This activity will help you to start writing programs to command the robot even if you have never done anything like this before and you know nothing about coding. The LOGO language is simple to […]
AIMSSEC HAPPY MATHS GLOBAL MATHS & SCIENCE LESSON 2020
Congratulations to all the participants. The pie chart and table give the number of registrations (total 6646) and angle in the pie chart for each country (27 countries). If you participated in the 30-minute lesson then please report the actual number of participants […]
The table gives data on the land and sea covering the Earth’s surface.
(1) Explain how the percentage 69.03
(2) How would you use this percentage to find the angle for saltwater for drawing a pie chart?
A pie chart and a frequency bar chart are given below.
(3) Which of the […]
Two teams Alpha United and Beta Rovers have each played 15 matches.
The data shows how many goals the teams scored in their matches.
There are six sets of data, three showing the results for Alpha United and three for Beta Rovers.
Match the data to the teams and explain your answers.
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Resources needed: outdoor or indoor space and 4 long pieces of string tied together at one end. Red and yellow headbands, sashes or stickers to be distributed at the start of the lesson.
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Mark out 4 regions on the ground. Adjust the age split to suit your […]
This United Nations Children’s Fund pie chart shows the global locations of 783 million people who did not have safe drinking water in 2012 and this number is increasing.
The total world population in 2017 is 7.5 billion (7,500,000,000). What percentage of the world population is without safe drinking water?
The world […]
Discuss these charts. The first was published in August 2020, and is similar to Florence Nightingale’s 1885 pie charts. In both charts the radial distance gives the number of deaths for a year and both were produced to convey a health warning and send messages to the British Government. What do you think these messages […]
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