M for Mathematics

Topics: Starter | Vocabulary

• Transum,
• Thursday, September 14, 2006
• "When the students have had 5 minutes to think of their words, they could all stand up behind their chairs. Going around the class, each student calls out a word they have found beginning with the given letter. A student who doesn’t have a word which hasn’t already been called out sits down. The last student to remain standing is the winner."
• Mrs Reeves, Dover Grammar School For Girls
• Thursday, September 13, 2007
• "Today we did this at the Dover Grammar school for girls and what we did was we wrote down all the words in a list, then each pair of children used rock paper scissors to decide who should start.
  the children who won would go against the other child to see who has the most in a way like this,
  Wendy: multiply
  Jade: million
  and so on. the one who has the most faces another child ands so a winner is found, the winner faces the teacher! HAHAGAGAGAHAHAH"
• Class 2m2, Lochend Community High School
• Monday, September 15, 2008
• "We also had the same answers given plus 'Mental Maths'."
• The Y6 Dream Team!, Tickhill St. Mary's
• Wednesday, September 15, 2010
• "Minimise; mental maths; millisecond; money; majority; million... we found more than were on the list!"
• Daisy And Ole, Year 6, Beckley Primary School
• Wednesday, September 15, 2010
• "We thought of 20 by ourselves before getting out the maths dictionary! A really good activity."

 

• Senior J, St Monica's Footscray
• Wednesday, September 14, 2011
• "We did this activity for 10 minutes and came up with 37 words!!! (without maths dictionaries)
  maths
  multiply
  measure
  million
  months
  March
  May
  millenium
  minus
  more
  match
  metres
  millimetres
  make
  multiplication
  money
  measurement
  mass
  mathematician
  maps
  MAB blocks
  metric
  mathematics
  milligram
  minutes
  millilitres
  method
  many
  mode
  median
  mean
  minimum
  maximum
  milliseconds
  microseconds
  much
  multiple."
• Anbuvel, Vellore
• Wednesday, December 14, 2011
• "Mathematics m-what,a-what,t-what,e-what,m-what,etc., explain details
  example news - n-north,e-east,w-west,s-south.."
• Alexandra Park School, 7ps/Ma2
• Friday, June 22, 2012
• "We got: minus, multiplication, mean, mile, metre, millimetre, minute, millisecond, millilitre, mass, metre squared, money, median, million, mode, measuring, MyMaths(!), millenium, mental, method, month, maximum, minimum."
• Alexandra Park School, 8ps/Ma3
• Friday, June 22, 2012
• "We got: metre, more, multiply, mode, mapping, mapping diagram, mean, multiple, maximum, minus, million, mandlebrats, measure, midpoint, metric, mixed number, minimum, mile, mass, most, MyMaths(!), mutually, mirror line, money, median, middle, millimetre, magic square, minutes, morse code."
• Alexandra Park School, 9ps3
• Wednesday, June 27, 2012
• "We got: mean, metre, metric, median, multiple, MyMaths, minus, method, mental, mode, mass, mathematical, millimetre, million, mirror line, multiply, millilitre, minimum, maximum, multiplication, mile, money."

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