Business Bellwork Activity: Equation

Equation is a great activity that can be used for bellwork, as a starter or as a plenary.

The concept is extremely simple. Students need to write an equation to demonstrate a specific subject topic that has just been taught.

For example, an equation for partnerships could be:

More ideas + Specialisation - Disagreements = Partnership

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This activity works really well as it encourages students to pick out the key points from a topic and therefore encourages them to synthesise the key points.

Other teaching and learning strategies for equation include:

1. The teacher preparing a number of equations and asking students to solve them
2. Replacing part of an equation with X and asking students to ‘find X’

Very simple but very effective.