Smarties GCSE maths revision

Smarties revision

By Emma Sheridan Famodimu

Lesson Objectives:

​Gentle GCSE Maths & English Revision

English: Nouns, verbs and Adjectives

Maths: Geometry - 3D shapes​

Volume, surface area

​ Addition, subtraction, muliplication, division, graphs, pictograms

Fractions, ratio, percentage, probability, algebra and patterns

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​You need...

A piece of paper, a calculator, pencil and a tube of Smarties​

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Multiple Choice

Look carefully at your tube of Smarties - What shape is it?

• cylinder

• pyramid

• hexagonal prism

• cube

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Multiple Choice

What is the name for any four sided shape?

• square

• quadrilateral

• parallelogram

• rectangle

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What does the front elevation look like?

What does the side elevation look like?

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Draw it on your paper

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This is your box in plan view​

It looks like this​

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​Plan view

​Front elevation

​Side elevation

You want to find the volume of this cuboid box

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Multiple Choice

What measurements would you need?

• colour, height & smell

• length, width & weight

• height, length & time

• length, width & height

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What sum would you do?

• Length x width x height

• Length + width + height

• Length - width - height

• Length / width/height

Empty your smarties out....​

How many Smarties do you have​?

​How many of each colour do you have?

What fraction are red?

What ​percentage are yellow?

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What is the ratio of .....?

• red to brown

• orange to green

• purple to yellow

• red to yellow to brown

Which of your ratios can be simplified?​

Multiple Choice

How many cuboid boxes in a stack, 5 boxes wide, 3 boxes deep and 6 boxes high?​

• 70

• 15

• 90

• 1

Open Ended

There are 749kJ in a box of 16 smarties.​ How many kJ per smartie?​

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Round your answer to the nearest kJ

Sketch out a pictogram to put your smarties in

But GCSE pictograms always have a half picture – nibble 2 of your smarties in half.​​

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Make a key showing how many kJ in each smartie​

Make a total column for the number of kJ found in each colour

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If you picked one of your smarties at random what is the probability you would pick a red?​

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If you picked one of your smarties at random what is the probability you would pick a a smartie that was not red?​

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Back to the cuboid box​

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We looked at finding the volume earlier. How would you find the surface area?​

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What measurements do you need?​

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What sums would you do?​

How could your smarties help you simplify​

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Multiple Choice

Simplify 3r + 2y + 5r + y

• 3r + 8y

• 8r + 3y

• 5r + 2y

• 2r + y

Draw

What come next?

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Multiple Choice

How many brown Smarties in a pattern with 68 orange?

• 21

• 84

• 34

• 36

Multiple Choice

Could a term in this pattern have a 100 smarties in it?

• Yes

• No

OK, now you can eat the Smarties

What other maths can you do with Smarties?​