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A pupil stands with their back to the board so they can't see the word(s) above. Their challenge is to guess the word from clues given by the class.
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Comment recorded on the 28 May 'Starter of the Day' page by L Smith, Colwyn Bay: "An absolutely brilliant resource. Only recently been discovered but is used daily with all my classes. It is particularly useful when things can be saved for further use. Thank you!" Comment recorded on the 3 October 'Starter of the Day' page by Fiona Bray, Cams Hill School: "This is an excellent website. We all often use the starters as the pupils come in the door and get settled as we take the register." Comment recorded on the 9 April 'Starter of the Day' page by Jan, South Canterbury: "Thank you for sharing such a great resource. I was about to try and get together a bank of starters but time is always required elsewhere, so thank you." Comment recorded on the 19 October 'Starter of the Day' page by E Pollard, Huddersfield: "I used this with my bottom set in year 9. To engage them I used their name and favorite football team (or pop group) instead of the school name. For homework, I asked each student to find a definition for the key words they had been given (once they had fun trying to guess the answer) and they presented their findings to the rest of the class the following day. They felt really special because the key words came from their own personal information." Comment recorded on the 12 July 'Starter of the Day' page by Miss J Key, Farlingaye High School, Suffolk: "Thanks very much for this one. We developed it into a whole lesson and I borrowed some hats from the drama department to add to the fun!" |
Game 1A pupil stands with his or her back to the screen and the teacher selects a word (Click the button above) Members of the class give clues so that the person with their back to the screen can guess the word Game 2If a large screen isn't available the teacher could select a word and a pupil could come up to the teacher's computer to read it. This pupil then gives clues to the rest of the class to guess the word. Whoever guesses it first is the next to be the clue giver. Game 3Pupils are divided into two teams. One member of each team stands with their backs to the screen and the teacher selects a word (Click the button above). The two teams take turns giving their team member a clue to the mystery word. The first team member to guess the word wins a point for their team. Game 4Play as the party game "Charades". No talking allowed. Game 5A pupil stands with his or her back to the screen and the teacher selects a word (Click the button above) The pupil asks the rest of the class questions which they can only answer "Yes" or "No". The pupil attempts to guess the word with the minimum number of questions. E.g. "Is it a shape?" "Have we seen this word recently?" "Is the word associated with probability?" "Does it have less than five letters?" Game 6Pupils could play the games suggested above in pairs if they have at least one computer, laptop, iPad or similar between them. Word DifficultyThe categories of Easy, Medium and Hard need explaining. The previous version of this application had the facility for teachers to vote on each word that was randomly selected from our database of 559 mathematical words and phrases. The votes indicated how suitable the teachers thought the words were for this game. After collecting over 85000 of these votes we have arbitrarily divided up the database in to three sections accordingly. You will probably find some words are not in the category that you would put them in so we suggest you just skip those words and go on to select another. |
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Friday, June 14, 2019