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BEING NUMERATE

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Group work allows students to learn interactively as well as develop interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Students expected to participate actively prepare themselves better for class.

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In this strategy students work together through group vote to make informed decisions, to prioritise and reach consensus. It could be used in a Tutor Class, Year Group or Student Council to come to a democratic decision.

Dotmocracy gives every student an equal chance to have their opinion recorded even in the largest of groups.

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Quizzes are an engaging way of activating prior knowledge and revising content. Kahoot! is a quiz based classroom response system. It displays the quiz in a fun and exciting way that is appealing to students.

It gives teachers the opportunity to ask thought provoking questions, find out previous knowledge or revise a topic in a fun way.

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This strategy allows students to graphically display the similarities and differences between two items or themes. It works very well with groups allowing oral processing of learning. A very effective strategy for comparing and contrasting.

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BEING NUMERATE
Assigning Group Roles more_vert

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Assigning Group Rolesclose

Group work allows students to learn interactively as well as develop interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Students expected to participate actively prepare themselves better for class.

View More

Dotmocracy more_vert

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Dotmocracyclose

In this strategy students work together through group vote to make informed decisions, to prioritise and reach consensus. It could be used in a Tutor Class, Year Group or Student Council to come to a democratic decision.

Dotmocracy gives every student an equal chance to have their opinion recorded even in the largest of groups.

View More

Kahoot! more_vert

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Kahoot!close

Quizzes are an engaging way of activating prior knowledge and revising content. Kahoot! is a quiz based classroom response system. It displays the quiz in a fun and exciting way that is appealing to students.

It gives teachers the opportunity to ask thought provoking questions, find out previous knowledge or revise a topic in a fun way.

View More

Venn Diagram more_vert

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Venn Diagramclose

This strategy allows students to graphically display the similarities and differences between two items or themes. It works very well with groups allowing oral processing of learning. A very effective strategy for comparing and contrasting.

View More