Students use substitution to calculate the cost and length of time taken to repair washing machines, and formulate and solve a related linear equation.
The start of spatial matchstick patterns are shown and described in tables. Students complete the tables and show the rules in either words or equations.
Students write about aspects of a lesson that they have just had. A list of possible starters is used to provide topics for the students to write about.
Assessment focus: ability to de-construct and interpret messages in advertising, so that students can understand meaning-making processes in the construction of imagery.
Task: Watch a video of two sofas burning, record the results, and use the evidence to make inferences about fire retardants. Assessment focus: using observations to provide evidence.