Mental Calculations Shed
Chris Moyles Maths Quiz - Various Artists
For anybody that hasn't seen this show before, Chris Moyles has a section where famous pop acts of the time, come on and sing a maths problem. This would be great as a starter and should be a great hook.
It would be advisable to play it a couple of times, and ask children to write the problem on a whiteboard, or as we do in our school notebooks (the old fashion paper ones not touch screen computers i'm afraid).
Just be careful because the answer is revealed at the end of some of them!
I've used these in class (Y6) and they absolutely love them. As mentioned above, I allow the children to just watch it once and try to do it mentally, the 2nd time they have to write it down. Then they have 2 minutes to work out the answer. We also had a go at writing our own maths songs based on these. The children loved doing this, I'm sure your kids would love it too! They performed them for each other and then the other groups had to work out the answer - a great set of mental maths lessons. (@shaunh0pper - Primary maths specialist teacher, Sheffield)
It would be advisable to play it a couple of times, and ask children to write the problem on a whiteboard, or as we do in our school notebooks (the old fashion paper ones not touch screen computers i'm afraid).
Just be careful because the answer is revealed at the end of some of them!
I've used these in class (Y6) and they absolutely love them. As mentioned above, I allow the children to just watch it once and try to do it mentally, the 2nd time they have to write it down. Then they have 2 minutes to work out the answer. We also had a go at writing our own maths songs based on these. The children loved doing this, I'm sure your kids would love it too! They performed them for each other and then the other groups had to work out the answer - a great set of mental maths lessons. (@shaunh0pper - Primary maths specialist teacher, Sheffield)
Eliza Doolittle
Lulu
Lethal Bizzle
John Barrownman
Jason Donovan
Ironik
English Chamber Choir
Chris De Burgh
Chipmunk
The Saturdays
Newton Faulkner
The Wanted.
Gabriella Cilmi.
McFly.
JLS
Alphabeat
Pixie Lott
The Hoosiers.
N-Dubz
Keane
One Direction.
