Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: November 16th, 2009 
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I really like using photos as a starting point to get my students talking about maths. I used this slideshow [PowerPoint] with Y7 to get them talking about parallel and perpendicular lines.
All the photos are taken in Sheffield; I’ve found that pictures of our local area always go down well. We had a bit of fun guessing where the photo on slide 5 was taken, before I revealed the next slide, which gave it away.
At this point one student got very excited and started asking me if I had seen ‘that new building called the Cheese Grater‘. Funny you should say that…” I replied, as the aptly nicknamed Cheese Grater appeared next. (Personally I think it looks like a Borg cube, but who am I to fly in the face of popular opinion?)
Another one of my students had an interesting question: “Miss, if we got a really big, massive piece of cheese, do you think it would work?” Brilliant idea! We’re writing to Brainiac to ask if they’ll try. Do you think they’ll take us up on it?
