Use the news!

By K. Moyle, Teacher of Mathematics

Over the weekend, there were headlines about the reduction in size of Terry's chocolate oranges. This was a perfect opportunity to revisit a recent topic that we had studied in year 10: 'Volume and surface areas of Spheres'.
Students were eager to tackle the challenging sphere starter, because it was a current interesting affair. I found that they could relate the values in their answers better than they previously had in other real life contexts.
 
 
 
Why not using the news in your lessons? Let's contextualise!
 
 

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