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Students work in teams and take repeated basketball shots, recording hits and misses to create authentic class data.
My mathematics practice combines explicit instruction with real-world contexts, inquiry, collaborative learning, formative assessment and digital tools.
Two Year 8 angle mini-lessons and a Year 9 parabola lesson are available as projector-ready presentations, interactive demonstrations and printable learning materials. The page also records which lesson has been taught and which lessons are scheduled.
A Year 7 gamified investigation where students generate their own data through basketball shots and use it to explore experimental probability, relative frequency, fractions, decimals and percentages.
Students work in teams and take repeated basketball shots, recording hits and misses to create authentic class data.
Results are organised using tables and digital tools, then expressed as fractions, decimals and percentages.
Students compare predicted and observed outcomes, discuss variation and justify conclusions using their own evidence.
Scale drawings, unit rates, real-world applications, conversion tasks and scaffolded problem solving.
Cartesian planes, rules and tables, substitution and straight-line graphs using contexts such as taxi fares and football positioning.