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SMP Interact Book 1
1 Reflection symmetry	This is about making shapes using mirrors and folding. The work will help you make shapes that have reflection symmetry identify symmetrical shapes and their lines of symmetry Reflections An online course from MathsNet providing students with tasks that use dynamic geometry to explore reflections: 23 Symmetry in shapes An Adobe Acrobat lesson plan and resource sheet to download and print. Nine simple shapes for the pupils to check for reflection symmetry. A lesson plan and resource sheet for a maths lesson on recognising reflective symmetry. (Ben Alldred) 26 Making Snowflakes A page to print out to start pupils off making their own symmetrical snowflake patterns. 29 War of the Images An Adobe Acrobat resource sheet you can download and print. A game for two players that encourages accurate estimation of the position of reflected points. Pupils could use the general idea to develop similar games of their own.
2 Test it!	This is about making and testing general statements about body measurements. The work will help you measure accurately collect and record data
3 Coordinates	This is about archeological digs. The work will help you use coordinates Points in the x-y plane From Exploremath.com. Manipulate points and their coordinates in the x-y plane. An onscreen activity using Shockwave
4 Oral questions 1	This work will help you find information from a table answer spoken questions
5 Brackets	This is about using brackets in expressions The work will help you use brackets to show which part of a calculation is done first work out the value of expressions that use brackets
6 Oral questions 2	This work will help you choose the information you need to solve a problem answer spoken questions
7 Growing patterns	This is about investigating patterns. This work will help you find patterns in a variety of situations describe how a pattern continues explain why a pattern continues in a particular way
8 Angle	This work will help you understand right angles, acute, obtuse and reflex angles measure angles calculate angles Shape From MathsNet. Dynamic geometry resources on angles and lines
9 Balancing	This work will help you solve simple balance puzzles form equations from balance puzzles solve simple equations with the unknown on both sides
10 Health club	This is about looking at data This work will help you find medians and compare sets of data draw and interpret dot plots and bar charts
11 Triangles	This work will help you draw triangles with particular lengths and angles identify special sorts of triangle and use their properties calculate with angles of a triangle The hidden world of triangles From MathsNet. Part of a geometrical construction course which uses dynamic geometry to look at properties of triangles
12 Work to rule	This is about finding rules for tile designs. The work will help you find and use rules
13 Area and perimeter	This work will help you work out the perimeter of a simple shape work out an area in square centimetres or square metres work out a shape's area by splitting it into simpler shapes solve problems involving areas and perimeters Maximise area From Exploremath.com. Explore the relationship between the area and perimeter of a rectangle. An onscreen activity using Shockwave Minimise perimeter From Exploremath.com. Explore the relationship between the area and perimeter of a rectangle. An onscreen activity using Shockwave
14 Negative numbers	This work will help you understand negative numbers in temperatures read graphs involving negative temperatures work out temperature changes and do other calculations with negative numbers
15 Spot the rule	This work will help you recognise number patterns write rules for number patterns using words and algebra Sequences from Freecampus.co.uk. Levels 4 and 5 provide exercises on finding the next term in a sequence using rules.
16 Gravestones	This is about looking at data, displaying it and drawing conclusions. This work will help you find information from a table draw a grouped frequency chart decide which sort of chart is best for the data use data to test a hypothesis
17 Number patterns	This work will help you investigate number patterns understand prime numbers, square numbers, cubes and square roots 7 Factordigitsums Teachers notes (and solution) to print out for a simple number investigation based on factors.

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