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What is it?
I am always on the lookout for a versatile type of activity. One that both myself and my students can get used to, and that I can then use across a whole range of different topics. It just means that so much time is saved in explaining who the activity works, and we can instead get straight down to the learning. On the rare times that such an activity is also engaging, challenging, and cuts my marking time down – well, it is safe to say that I am over the moon. And that is exactly the case with this Odd One Out resource. Students are given 9 answers, but just 8 questions. Their job is to find the odd one out!

How can it be used?
The author suggests that these activities make good starters and plenaries. That is undoubtedly true, but I feel there is even more potential than that. With the range of topics that this resource covers (brackets, fractions, factors, equations, sequences, indices, the list goes on), and the infinite potential for other topics, I feel this could make up the main body of the lesson. Better still, there is my favourite inbuilt source of richness. As soon as students have identified the odd one out, they can then create a question that has that answer. Lovely stuff!
Thanks so much for sharing

Craig Barton

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