Maths Activities

Here are Math based activities using basic materials and manipulatives. Click on any lesson, and it will take you to a page with more details and links that will help you learn about the lesson and how to do the activity.
The standard each lesson is connected to in the WASSCE 2016 syllabi used in Sierra Leone are provided here.

Remember,

• NEVER hesitate to take one of the lesson plans and make changes that suit your own needs or situation. 
• NEVER doubt yourself if you want to try and develop you own experiment or project, or go after and try to solve some local problem that may be science-based! 

- Algebra lesson
- Algorithms: Thinking like a computer or robot

- Calculus, the Essence (need Internet access for YouTube videos)

- Coordinate Geometry
- Geometry lesson
- Graphing: Collaborative matching game
- Graphing lesson

- Matrices

- Mensuration: Circles, Area

- Numeration: Bases

- Numeration: Logs   You will also need the log flip book.
- Open-ended problems: Multiple possible solutions to complex problems

- Polar coordinates examples

- Probability
- Probability using dice
- Punnett squares: Probability application in genetics
- Radioactive half-life (see and measure example of mathematical exponential decay)
- Scaling the size of the solar system: Using fractions/ratios/proportions and unit conversions
- Statistics lesson
- Trigonometry: Build clinometer for trig lesson
- Trigonometry lesson
- Vector and transformations cards needed for Vector lesson
- Vector and transformations lesson

More generally:
     Encourage students to write poems, stories, songs, short plays, or debates about any maths topic or issue that is maths related! It is a wonderful way to build up writing and creative skills, in addition to new ways of learning the topic. Often, students better remember and learn a topic than through traditional methods, such as when a catchy song is better remembered than paragraphs from a textbook.