A nice follow-me 'loop card&' starter activity practicing students knowledge of factors, multiples and primes. This activity is suitable for KS3 and KS4 students. There are 32 cards to be printed that can be adapted and changed to suit different levels.

A collection of challenging but interesting starter questions.

Instructions of how to construct three different triangles.

A starter involving a 1-100 number square.

Pictures of all 52 playing cards, just in case you ever need them!

A little starter testing pupils' knowledge of basic algebraic misconceptions in simplifying, multiplying and factorizing algebraic terms. The PowerPoint is only one slide and is great as a starter or plenary for KS3 and KS4 students.

Questions requiring pupils to read information from pie charts and bar charts.

This is a simple card activity where students must match the diagram of the straight line to its equation. This excel document is suitable for KS3 and KS4 students.

Great as a starter or activity to consolidate learning, encourages peer assessment. Laminate and cut out these Snap cards. Pupils share out the cards and play snap in the usual way. The winner is the one who gets all the cards. If someone says snap incorrectly, the other person gets the cards.

A Tarsia activity on four operations with fractions. These type of activities can be used to consolidate understanding of a given topic, and foster positive group work and co-operative learning. For more ideas on how to use these types of activities (including twists!) and to download the latest version of the wonderful free software to open this resource (and create your own), just click on the web-link. If you have any comments, or spot any (non deliberate!) mistakes, please share them below. Many thanks to all the teachers who have helped me assemble these Tarsias over the years.

A good way to introduce the concept of inverse operations.

Have a play around with this task, and please share any questions, extensions, simplifications, modifications, or lines of inquiry in the comment box below. The idea is to collect loads of suggestions that can then be used for effective differentiation. The full set of these tasks, along with additional notes, can be found here: http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/richtasks.htm

This is a fun and engaging activity for KS3 and KS4 students to practice and revise multiples. This game is to be played in pairs. Each player takes it in turns to throw dice and add the two numbers together. They then cover a multiple of that number on the gozinto grid with counters. The first player to make a line of four wins.

A few years ago I wrote a set of notes for pupils and put them on my website. The notes were supposed to be written in a “pupil-friendly” way, and different to notes students might find in textbooks or elsewhere on the internet. I have converted the notes to PowerPoint slides so you can download them, adapt them if needed, use them in revision lessons or perhaps give your students a set to take home with them to help them prepare for exams. The chances are there will be a few mistakes here and there, so if you spot any please email me & I will correct them. Hope they are of use!

Another great lesson from Lisa McNulty.

bingo questions and cards where the answers rely on knowledge of parallel line angle facts

15 questions about angles for pupils to debate and investigate.

Statistics Level 6 - Choosing the most appropriate way to represent data Questions requiring pupils to read and compare information from pie charts, bar charts and line graphs

A nice set of cards to be used as a revision starter.

A very simple activity to show how some diagrams can be misleading.