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 requires students spot the pattern in a quadratic sequence and then work out the next two terms.
Click -->https://tes.com/.../Treasure Hunts to download Treasure Hunts on 40 other topics.
--
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)
If you like this resource then please rate it and/or leave a comment by clicking here --> https://tes.com/.../Quick Comment
This activity helps to strengthen students' skills in substituting a value into the formula of an arithmetic sequence.
Click --> https://tes.com/.../Treasure Hunts for similar style Treasure Hunts on 40 other topics.
---
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.
A worksheet that helps students to take the first steps with equations that contain a function (and possibly an inverse function). All the equations on this worksheet develop into quadratics that can be factorised. FULLY WORKED SOLUTIONS are included :-)
Also see my similar worksheet which extends this topic to include equations with contain compound (and inverse) functions -->
Click Here
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.
Click --> https://tes.com/.../Treasure Hunts for similar style Treasure Hunts on 40 other topics.
---
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 take the first steps in their skills and knowledge of Reading and Writing Numbers Up to Ten. Activities include tracing the word shapes, missing letters, anagrams and a word search.
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 reinforces the learning of the Roman Numerals, but students also need to remember where the numerals are hidden!
--
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.
Two differentiated worksheets (with solutions) that allow students to take the first steps, then strengthen their skills in expanding a bracketed expression. The first sheet is designed for use in class, but the second sheet could make a useful homework if you wanted.
--
I have worksheets on more than 50 other topics – click here 👉 https://tes.com/.../worksheets… to see them.
👍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 Dividing Terms which contain Indices. 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/dividing-2212.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 worksheets (with solutions) help students take the first steps and then strengthen their skills and knowledge of Expanding Brackets in which the term outside of the brackets contains both a number and letter. 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/expanding-a-bracket-2261.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 worksheets (with solutions) help students take the first steps and then strengthen their skills and knowledge of Expanding Two Single Brackets and then simplifying the result. 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/expressions-with-two-single-brackets-2263.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 worksheets (with solutions) help students take the first steps and then strengthen their skills and knowledge of Expanding Brackets in which the term outside of the brackets is 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/negative-brackets-2262.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 familiarise students with the triangle numbers, but they also need to remember where the numbers are hidden!
--
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 is more than just finding words on a grid. The words are not given, they have to get them from the diagrams. There is a moderate and a 'difficult' version so the activity is accessible to all and there are many opportunities for extension. The PowerPoint reveals the solutions one word at a time so you can stop and discuss each shape as you go. Try it and you will see what I mean☺.
This has been used with classes from Year 6 to Year 11 and they have loved it and had many useful discussions.
The activity could be given as a homework as well as used in the classroom. With older students, when I go through the answers I use it as an opportunity to revise the properties of the shapes as well.
---
You can give students as much help as you like, but if you leave them to it…
they have to think about the names of the shapes;
they have to think about the spelling of the names;
they have to look for names that are not represented by the diagrams.
Because the diagrams have been drawn for the students, there is the opportunity to talk about the use of little squares to indicate right-angles, the use of little lines to indicate equal length sides and the use of arrows to indicate parallel lines.
Three additional 2D shapes are hidden in the grid (these are nonagon, decagon and icosagon).
The 3D shapes that are hidden are cone, cube, cuboid, cylinder, pyramid, sphere & tetrahedron.
The solutions to the moderate version are contained within the pdf; the PowerPoint contains the solutions to the ‘difficult’ version.
---
If you like this activity then look through the other resources that I have uploaded by clicking -->https://tes.com/Morse's-Resources.
At the moment, I am uploading about 10 new resources each week, if you want to be kept up-to-date, then click-->HERE and then follow me.
These worksheets (with solutions) help students take the first steps and then strengthen and extend their skills and knowledge of Substituting a Value into an Expression that contains a Single Variable. 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/single-variable-2121.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 worksheets (with solutions) help students take the first steps and then strengthen their skills and knowledge of Collecting Like Terms. 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/single-variable-2131.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.
Aimed at KS1, this is a really good activity for getting students to do lots of adding (and some subtracting). It is ideal as a starter or plenary, but it is quite easy to extend it by modifying the starting number and/or the numbers which the students must add or subtract.
I have included worksheets set at three different levels, each with a relevant extension – a sheet of blank grids are provided in case of mistakes or for you to set an even more challenging spiral for your Superstars.
I have also copied each of the spirals and the full solutions into a PowerPoint so that it is easy for you to display on screen.
When a student finishes a spiral you can get them to circle the even numbers, or numbers bigger than (for example) ‘20’ , or number with (for example) a ‘4’ in them.
Other extensions include selecting numbers (maybe the corner numbers) and getting students to write them as words, or to add them together – depending upon the age/capabilities of your particular class.
More than 600 computing terms explained in Plain English and designed to be used as exam answers - many of the definitions are based on the mark schemes of past papers.
There is one file for A4 printing, one for an A5 booklet and a third, editable file, which you or your students can personalise.
An excellent reference; it will certainly be a useful addition to any resource that you already have.
This set of worksheet grids (with solutions) help students to take the first steps and then strengthen and extend their skills and knowledge of counting money.The questions are carefully thought out so that understanding can be developed, misconceptions can be identified and so that there is progression both across and down each grid. — Interactive versions of these sheets are available at
https://www.maths4everyone.com/skills/counting-money-4612.html
These worksheets (with solutions) help students take the first steps and then strengthen and extend their skills and knowledge of Adding Fractions. 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/addition-and-subtraction-1551.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 worksheets (with solutions) help students take the first steps and then strengthen and extend their skills and knowledge of Adding Fractions. 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/addition-and-subtraction-1551.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.