Jerry Li 

Maths Teacher 数学老师

1. Mathloop used in the class

My Year 11 students often enjoy a lot of math activities in the class, such as playing bingo, kahoo.it and mathloops, which are the ones that they like most.

Last Friday, we played mathloops to practice the topic “Sine Rule & Cosine Rule”, they practiced a lot and at the same time they enjoyed themselves as well.

There are 12 cards for one set, each group of two students share one set. On each of these 12 cards, there is a question about this topic. On each of the card, there is a question and an answer. But the answer to the question in this page is in another card. The candidate should work out the answer to the question and find the card on which there is a same answer to match. The question card and its answer card form a chain and the chains form a loop. Those who form the loop first win the game.

In last Friday’s class, I separated the students into 11 groups. Two or three students stayed in one group. During the activity, they cooperated with each other to find the answers. Soon Tim and his partner Tony finished their mathloop correctly at the first time. Karen and Aily ranked the second, Bowen and Locus ranked the third.

After class, Karen said, “Mathloop is a repeated form of training the sine rule and the cosine rule and I’m enjoyed when I figured out the answer and make it a complete loop on the table.”

Tony said, “This way to learn is very interesting. I prefer to use this way to learn the knowledge.”

Tim said: “I like the game, it is very interesting. It is creative and different types of questions can be shown in this game.”

Cathy said:” It’s very good. It can make our calculation ability more efficient and our math will be better through this kind of practice.”

Mary commented that” It stimulate us students’ interest in mathematics and practice our brain as well.”

Elise said: ‘I want more of these kinds of games, because it can let us practice what we learned during the class and we can cooperate with each other during the games as well.”

Yiqing Chen

Maths Teacher 数学老师

2. Maths Report

Year 10 students started their exciting IGCSE math learning journey in this term. They learned how to express the mathematical proper nouns in English, and developed a basic foundation in algebra and geometry. They know what an algebraic expression is and have been able to simplify and factorise algebraic expressions. They also have been familiar with bearings, the types of triangles and quadrilaterals and their properties. Now they are exploring the area in statistic which is to handle the data. Hope they enjoy and begin to understand the world around us.

This year is quite crucial to all Year 11 students. They will take IGCSE exams at the end of this academic year. From the beginning of the term, we kept moving on. Students have explored the knowledge in functions and graphs, trigonometry and 3D shapes. In the mid-term exams two weeks ago, all the topics covered from Year 10 have been tested. The students have received their results and did their analysis. They should have a clear plan for the next step to achieve a higher grade.

For most Year 12 students, they received their IGCSE results which are good and satisfying in math at the beginning of the term. This term they started a challenging journey in A Level math. In this journey, they are going to explore more about functions, coordinate geometry and calculus. In addition, the students are going to learn how to apply their math knowledge to solve real world problems (they are statistics and mechanics, and we call them Applied Math.) We also have six students who chose A Level Further Math. This course is much more difficult but definitely will help students get well-prepared to their study at the university, especially for those students who would like to study in science and engineering.

Cecile Wang

Maths Teacher 数学老师

3. Break the traditional maths class

Mathematics is intriguing! It’s like a garden, when you look from outside, you may not find anything. When you walk in, you will find a beautiful mathematic world!

In Lucton, we broke the traditional ‘listen to the teacher’ mode. We fully mobilize students' knowledge, and make math study a happy experience for students to actively construct new math knowledge based on their existing one.

For example, practicing math questions is a necessary way to consolidate the knowledge learned and form skills, and it’s an important part of teaching. But the traditional form and content of questions lack the stimuli to draw students’ learning interests. Therefore, we have designed different types and levels of exercises, from the basic imitative class exercises to questions which can stretch mathematical mind. Students may try different levels of exercise. In this way, we keep students interesting in learning.