I regularly upload resources that I have created during 30 years as a teacher. Most of these are maths, but there are some ICT/Computing and Tutor Time activities. All of the resources are my own and are not available from third-parties. The resources have been tweaked over time and I have had many happy lessons and shed-loads of happy and successful students.
At the end of 2017 the TES announced that I was the most downloaded new author and in 2018 another 2 million were added to the count.
I regularly upload resources that I have created during 30 years as a teacher. Most of these are maths, but there are some ICT/Computing and Tutor Time activities. All of the resources are my own and are not available from third-parties. The resources have been tweaked over time and I have had many happy lessons and shed-loads of happy and successful students.
At the end of 2017 the TES announced that I was the most downloaded new author and in 2018 another 2 million were added to the count.
This activity is a fun way to help students reinforce their skills in factorising quadratics. Click -->https://tes.com/.../Treasure Hunts for Treasure Hunts on more than 20 other topics.
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A Treasure Hunt is a great activity which children love. They are ideal for revision, starters or plenaries. They are a really great way to get students to answer questions quickly and enjoy doing so.
Unlike most Treasure Hunts, this one has the added feature that the answers to the questions give an encrypted clue. When students decipher this clue, it reveals where the treasure is hidden!
The question cards have been prepared in two sizes. The large version can be pinned around the room and used for a whole class activity. The smaller cards can be used for group work or by individuals. The smaller cards are particularly helpful during interventions.
Colour coding:
I have used colours to indicate the increasing difficulty of questions:
Red, Orange and Green (from primary up to GCSE Foundation)
Blue and Purple (GCSE Higher)
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Topic-focused SATs questions and fully-worked solutions for the CALCULATIONS strand.
Click 👉 tes.com/…/bundles… for booklet bundles of the other strands.<hr>I have put all my CALCULATION strand booklets together in this one convenient download. I hope that this is helpful to you.<hr> The questions in these booklets are in the style of actual SATs questions and are designed to be printed as A4 or A5.
KEY POINTS:
I have provided full answers, with comments and working where helpful.
I have maintained the style of the actual SATs questions so that students can become comfortable with the way that SATs questions are presented.
Most of the questions are from actual SATs papers, but I have also added questions so that this resource matches the requirements the current curriculum better than the older resources that are still in common use (note that many of the older resources of this type contain questions on topics which are no longer examined).
I have spent a lot of time arranging the questions so that there is a general increase in difficulty as students work through them, and so that they fit on the pages better ��� this means less wasted space and significant paper-saving when printing 😃
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A worksheet that contains equations with composite functions and includes when a composite is equal to an inverse. All the equations will develop into quadratics that can be factorised. For this reason, this worksheet is excellent for higher GCSE students who want practice with their algebra, as well as with functions. The first questions are reasonably straightforward and typical of GCSE. The last row is particularly challenging and great preparation for students aiming for level 8 and 9.
These two worksheets are extremely good for making students think! They will need to use their knowledge of interior and exterior angles in polygons to solve some fairly tricky problems. The sheets can be used for work in class or as a homework. I love these sheets because the questions allow students to get involved in good, healthy mathematical discussion.
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Solutions (with hints) are included.
Ideal for GCSE revision, these worksheets contain exam-type questions that gradually increase in difficulty. These sheets cover Factorisation including factorising quadratics.
These review sheets are great to use in class or as a homework. They are also excellent for one-to-one tuition and for interventions. Interactive versions of these sheets are available at
https://www.maths4everyone.com/skills/topic-review-sheets-9467.html
The interactive versions allow individual questions to be selected for enlarged display onto a screen. The answer can then be worked out ‘live’ by the teacher (or student) or a single click will reveal my solution. This not only helps in class, but it is also very useful for a student who is revising at home.
Topic-focused SATs questions and fully-worked solutions for the NUMBER strand.
Click 👉 tes.com/…/bundles… for booklet bundles of the other strands.<hr>I have put all my NUMBER booklets together in this one convenient download. I hope that this is helpful to you.<hr> The questions in these booklets are in the style of actual SATs questions and are designed to be printed as A4 or A5.
KEY POINTS:
I have provided full answers, with comments and working where helpful.
I have maintained the style of the actual SATs questions so that students can become comfortable with the way that SATs questions are presented.
Most of the questions are from actual SATs papers, but I have also added questions so that this resource matches the requirements the current curriculum better than the older resources that are still in common use (note that many of the older resources of this type contain questions on topics which are no longer examined).
I have spent a lot of time arranging the questions so that there is a general increase in difficulty as students work through them, and so that they fit on the pages better – this means less wasted space and significant paper-saving when printing 😃
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Ideal for GCSE revision, this worksheet contains exam-type questions that gradually increase in difficulty. This sheet covers Converting between Different Units of Length, Area and Volume.
This review sheet is great to use in class or as a homework. It is also excellent for one-to-one tuition and for interventions.
This activity gives students practice at solving linear equations, with and without brackets. All answers are positive, but not all are whole numbers.
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Note that unlike most Treasure Hunts, this one has the added feature that the answers give an encrypted clue. Deciphering this clue reveals where the treasure is hidden!
A Treasure Hunt is a great activity which children love. They are ideal for revision, starters or plenaries. They are a really great way to get students to answer questions quickly and enjoy doing so.
These question cards have been prepared in two sizes. The large cards can be pinned around the classroom and used for a whole class activity; the smaller (loop cards) can be used for group work or by individuals – they are particularly helpful for one-to-one tutorials and during interventions.
Colour coding:
I have used colours to indicate the approximate level of the questions:
KS2 – red and orange
KS3/GCSE Foundation – orange and green
GCSE Higher – green, blue and purple
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Three worksheets with carefully thought-out questions, which have helped many classes take the first steps in working with surds. Equivalent surds, adding, subtracting and multiplication/division are covered.
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Designed for secondary school students, the sheets can be used for work in class or as a homework. They are also excellent for one-to-one tuition and interventions.
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These topic-focused SATs questions at the end of a unit will help to test and extend students’ understanding as well as helping them to prepare for SATs next year. These questions have fully-worked solutions which can be displayed on a whiteboard making feedback with students more efficient.
Click 👉 tes.com/…/KS2-Maths-Questions… for similar-style compilations on the other KS2 topics.<hr>This particular compilation is from the MEASUREMENT strand and contains questions on Mass. Students will have to read a variety of scales and be able to convert between grams and kilograms. Included are some worded questions with involve performing a variety of different calculations involving mass.<hr>I have designed this compilation to be printed as an A4 or A5 booklet which is in the style of the actual SATs papers and is convenient for use in class or as homework. It can even be given to individual students if a parent is asking for ‘some more work’!
KEY POINTS:
I have provided full answers, with comments and working where helpful.
I have maintained the style of the actual SATs questions so that students can become comfortable with the way that SATs questions are presented.
Most of the questions are from actual SATs papers, but I have also added questions so that this resource matches the requirements the current curriculum better than the older resources that are still in common use (note that many of the older resources of this type contain questions on topics which are no longer examined).
I have spent a lot of time arranging the questions so that there is a general increase in difficulty as students work through them, and so that they fit on the pages better – this means less wasted space and significant paper-saving when printing 😃
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Four enjoyable and challenging MC-Quizzes in which any number of answers may be correct! This means more thinking and less guessing😃
<hr>This particular set of quizzes is suitable for older primary and all secondary students. The topics covered are:
+Factors and Multiples
+Prime Numbers
+Negative Numbers (Adding and Subtracting)
+Rounding
Note that Rounding with significant figures will be covered in a later quiz.<hr>These quizzes are great for starters and plenaries, but they are suitable for students to use at home as part of self-study.<hr>👍If you like this resource, then please rate it and/or leave a comment💬.
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These worksheets (with solutions) help students take the first steps and then strengthen their knowledge of the names of the Parts of a Circle. Questions are carefully planned so that understanding can be developed, misconceptions can be identified and so that there is progression both across and down each sheet. Interactive versions of these sheets are available at
https://www.maths4everyone.com/skills/parts-of-a-circle-5141.html
The interactive version allows individual questions to be selected for enlarged display onto a screen. The answer can then be worked out ‘live’ by the teacher (or student) or a single click will reveal my solution. This not only helps in class, but it is also very useful for a student who is revising at home.
This is a fun interactive whiteboard game, created in PowerPoint, with triggered animations. All my students have loved this activity ('Sir, can we play the chain-game?'). It is enjoyable for both high and low ability – it not only helps students learn the 2, 5 and 10 times-tables, but they also need to remember where the numbers are hidden!
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I typically use this activity as a starter and then as a plenary at the end of the lesson. It gets the whole class involved ��� even when it's not a students turn, they are repeating the numbers in their head and they are desperate to say where the next number is!
The way that I play the game:
1. I go through the members of the sequence and ensure that the students are familiar with each of the numbers;
2. When the board is revealed, I give about 15 seconds to ‘peek’ at the uncovered board so that the students can try to learn where the first few numbers are;
3. I then call up the students one-at-a-time to try an uncover as many numbers as they can before they go wrong.
NOTES:
I encourage the students to call out the number that they are looking for because this reinforces the learning.
This activity works very well if you get two students to play against each other – either on the interactive whiteboard or on PCs.
This activity gives students good practice at using the angle properties of parallelograms, kites etc., to work out the unknown angle in many different quadrilaterals.
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Note that unlike most Treasure Hunts, this one has the added feature that the answers give an encrypted clue. Deciphering this clue reveals where the treasure is hidden!
A Treasure Hunt is a great activity which children love. They are ideal for revision, starters or plenaries. They are a really great way to get students to answer questions quickly and enjoy doing so.
These question cards have been prepared in two sizes. The large cards can be pinned around around the classroom and used for a whole class activity; the smaller (loop cards) can be used for group work or by individuals – they are particularly helpful for one-to-one tutorials and during interventions.
These worksheets (with solutions) help students strengthen their skills in applying the Trigonometry ratios sin, cos and tan. Questions are carefully planned so that understanding can be developed, misconceptions can be identified and so that there is progression both across and down each sheet. Interactive versions of these sheets are available at
https://www.maths4everyone.com/skills/mixed-soh-cah-toa-5524.html
The interactive version allows individual questions to be selected for enlarged display onto a screen. The answer can then be worked out ‘live’ by the teacher (or student) or a single click will reveal my solution. This not only helps in class, but it is also very useful for a student who is revising at home.
These reusable cards are excellent for one-to-one tutorials and interventions. They are also great when working with small groups or as a starter/plenary for a whole class. For Loop Cards on more than 50 other topics click 👉 www.tes.com/../more....
This particular set of cards allows students to practise calculating area, perimeters and unknown lengths of rectangles.
Note that the questions have been carefully selected so that they provide good coverage of this topic and so that the opportunities for students to guess answers are minimised.
Colour coding:
All my loop cards are colour-coded to indicate the approximate level of the questions:
KS2 – red and orange
KS3/GCSE Foundation – orange and green
GCSE Higher – green, blue and purple
Further information:
In this download there are four sets of similar cards and a student chooses one of the sets and sorts them into order by answering the questions. Then they try to do it faster using a different set, which has the same questions, but a different sort order 😃
My favourite use of loop cards is for two students to have different versions of the cards and race each other. They then check their answers, shuffle, swap packs and race again (quickest overall time wins). More instructions are included in the download.
Cut out card size is approx. 65 x 90 mm.
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This is my poster for Set Notation. I give students the A5 version for revision and have a large version on the wall somewhere.
Click 👉www.tes.com/.../more-posters... to see my other posters, which are also available for free.
This activity is based on a question which I saw within the White Rose Maths Scheme. It gives students plenty of practice at substituting numbers into simple formulae.
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Note that unlike most Treasure Hunts, this one has the added feature that the answers give an encrypted clue. Deciphering this clue reveals where the treasure is hidden!
A Treasure Hunt is a great activity which children love. They are ideal for revision, starters or plenaries. They are a really great way to get students to answer questions quickly and enjoy doing so.
These question cards have been prepared in two sizes. The large cards can be pinned around the classroom and used for a whole class activity; the smaller (loop cards) can be used for group work or by individuals ��� they are particularly helpful for one-to-one tutorials and during interventions.
Colour coding:
I have used colours to indicate the approximate level of the questions:
KS2 – red and orange
KS3/GCSE Foundation – orange and green
GCSE Higher – green, blue and purple
👍If you like this resource, then please rate it and/or leave a comment💬.
If the rate-resource button on this page does not work, then go to your ratings page by clicking here 👉 https://tes.com/.../rate-resources…
These worksheets (with solutions) help students take the first steps and then strengthen their skills and knowledge of Factorising Quadratics in which the coefficient of x-squared is one and the signs of the other terms are a mix of positive and negative. Questions are carefully planned so that understanding can be developed, misconceptions can be identified and so that there is progression both across and down each sheet. Interactive versions of these sheets are available at
https://www.maths4everyone.com/skills/factorising-simple-quadratics-2272.html
The interactive version allows individual questions to be selected for enlarged display onto a screen. The answer can then be worked out ‘live’ by the teacher (or student) or a single click will reveal my solution. This not only helps in class, but it is also very useful for a student who is revising at home.
These are (were) my C1 summary notes. The questions are carefully selected and have fully-worked solutions. Perfect for re-sit students to self-study, but I continue to use the relevant sections for GCSE 9-1 and the new A-level.
Topics covered are:
1. Rules of Indices
2. Surds
3. Simultaneous Equations (Involving Quadratics)
4. Solving Inequalities
5. Factorising Cubics
6. Completing the Square
7. Sketching Graphs
8. Understanding the Discriminant
9. Transformations of Functions
10. Co-ordinates and Straight Line Graphs
11. Intersections of Graphs
12. Differentiation and Integration
13. Equations of Tangents and Normals
14. Terms in a Sequence
15. Arithmetic Series