Miss Dee Vider's Relay Race is a great way to boost your pupils' last minute division revision!

One of the myriad of BGfL Maths Boosters, Miss Dee Vider's Relay Race is ...

• a fantastically engaging, purpose-built resource
• tailored to the needs of Year 6 pupils
• an easy and fun way to get to grips with long division – one of the most challenging maths topics for learners

Miss Dee Vider needs to divide her pupils into equally sized teams for a relay race. She uses pupils’ help to work out how many teams she will have. And if there are any pupils left on the substitute bench.

• There are three levels of difficulty:
      * Joggers: a gentle-paced warm up of estimating and dividing skills
      * Runners: an aerobically challenging start to division by chunking
      * Sprinters: the ultimate challenge where users test their chunking skills to the limit

Miss Dee Vider's Relay Race in the online School Booster environment at: www.bgfl.org/schoolbooster. And while you’re there, you might also want to check out:

               * The Magically Multiplying Tuckshop – for a spooky learning activity on long multiplication
               * The School Bus – for the Bus Stop Method of division
               * The Virtual Classrooms for linked teaching and learning resources on ... 
                  area, perimeter, ratio, proportion and money problem-solving activities

Or check out other fantastic BGfL Maths Boosters at: www.bgfl.org/mathsbooster!

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Teachers' Note:
Each year, the Birmingham Grid for Learning website designs and creates an engaging, interactive and free maths activity which aims to boost Birmingham pupils' mathematical attainment, whether in preparation for end of Key Stage SATs assessments or for the transition to secondary school.

The teaching and learning activities are designed to bridge the gap between Level 3 and Level 4+.

The mathematical topics chosen with care from the 11 topics identified by Education in Action, Birmingham, as those hardest to teach or to learn.

These include: multiplication, division, ratio, proportion, area, perimeter, money calculations and problem-solving.

The teaching and learning activities are suitable for KS3 and KS4 pupils, either for classroom-based consolidation or personal revision.