I’m currently trying out ideas from the #mathsmeetnorthwest TeachMeet. Emma Weston did an excellent presentation on ‘Marking for motivation and progress’. She inspired me to look for a Top Trumps activity for my class – they needed some consolidation of solving equations with an unknown on each side and with brackets. I found this brilliant solving equations Top Trumps by Dusher on TES resources.

The Marvel comic themed algebra cards have three tiers of difficulty and went down a storm. My class would have happily played all lesson, if I had let them.

Who would have thought that equations could be so engaging?