Crazy week of appointments and some rubbish stuff hitting us from elsewhere. I normally post medicalness but in having a tidy up, I found this. It has given me a much needed laugh. To explain:
I had a group of kids who frankly found school an unnecessary evil and maths a wholly evil infliction. I was tasked with getting them all a minimum pass grade C somehow. In two terms. Ofsted came, but never saw me…thank goodness.
I had an awesome TA at the time and between us we invented crazy maths.
One thing we did every lesson was sing…formulae, anything, just to make it stick.
Another thing we did was invent words to help them remember rules.
So for angles on Parallel lines: Corresponding (looks like an F) and Alternate (looks like a Z).
SINNNNNNNNG: A to Z is alternate ObviouZZZZZZZlyyyyy
The one like an F is F****** hard to spell…..corr….es….pond….ING…..oh yeah. 
For area we had the circle song….pi r squared sounds like area to me when I need a circumference I just use pi d.
See youtube https://youtu.be/vppcEYLOKyI
The card they sent at the end of it all, was one I had to hide from my evidence-reflective -journal- validation- crap- folder.
Please do not tell OfSted!
Daily Stent. I cannot cure you but I can make you laugh (citation Jerome) 