This colourful and animated resource combines the celebration of Diwali with 4 Maths activities based on ratio and proportion. It is aimed at year 5/6 or revision for year 7. Watch the video to see the whole pp. The first activity involves Rangoli Patterns revealing 16 ratios to be simplified. The following problems, Fireworks, Lights and Sweets involve problem solving skills. In Sweets a recipe is given for 9 and the ingredients increased for 18, 45, 81 and 108. In lights there are 114 lights and you have to identify how many of each type in the ratio of 1:2:3. Finally the Fireworks problem introduces money, working out how many fireworks are purchased for £24.80. There are 3 types costing different amounts.

This POWERPOINT is fully animated with colourful graphics and sound. Some activities are interactive. There are 12 puzzles, activities with a Christmas Theme. One a day for 12 days. Suitable for years 5/6/7. Try out taster here. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/12-days-of-christmas-maths-taster-11348715 Sorting Snowballs,(squares, multiples of 3 and factors of 35) Christmas Snap (TU x TU) (Doubling and halving) Christmas Cards (Area) Choosing Chimneys (Arrangements) Broken Baubles (Multiples of 9) Weighing Presents(Ordering gms and Kgs) Reindeer Sorting(Logic) Christmas Tree Sorting( mm, cm, m) Christmas Tree Sequences Snowball fun( Rectangle numbers) Giving Presents(investigating patterns) Christmas snap 2(Squares and Square roots)

Topical lesson, using Power Point, as the round of Autumn Fairs begins. Goose Fair, Hull Fair and others are topics of interest for young people. How much do the rides earn the owners? NEW Top Ten Roller Coaster rides added. Converting mph to km/h and ordering. A set of colourful slides with the following maths included: • understand and use whole numbers and understand in practical contexts • add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers using a range of strategies • use simple formulae expressed in words for one- or two-step operations • solve problems requiring calculation, with common measures, including money, time, , • extract and interpret information from tables, • find mean and range

Students compete in teams solving math problems. Animated with sound to engage learners. 1. Mending Baubles by putting correct halves together to make a multiple of 7. 2. Gifts Galore- who bought the gifts using all their money. 3. Arranging Baubles - arrange 4 colours in different ways. 4. Christmas Cards- find the length and width of envelopes with an area of 240 sq cm. 5. Word Winter Wonderland - Unravel mixed up words to reveal mathematical words.

A fully animated Halloween maths quiz with sound. This is a quiz for teams of children working together solving problems. Order pumpkins by weight; work out how many frogs and spiders are in the cauldron; match the ghostly frames using enlargement; calculate mean, median, mode and range to compare pumpkin patches; and finally go trick or treating using factors, primes and multiples. Click the drop down pumpkin to return to the score sheet. Click the witch to move to next slide.There is now an instruction slide which I hope will clarify the quiz. Download the score sheet and print out one per team. Updated to allow score entry via keyboard.

A colourful cross curricular history/maths quiz for years 5/6. Facts and figures are used in an imaginative way to delve into Egyptian life. Reigns of the Pharaohs, Buying and Selling, Pulling your Weight, Hieroglyphs. Solve problems involving estimating, calculations with money and time, and hieroglyph code breaking. A link to the BBC Bitesize adds an interesting task involving the base area and volume of The Great Pyramid. (18 slides PP) This quiz encourages discussion and could be used as a standalone activity or as part of a topic in History. Updated scoreslide so that scores and team names can be entered via the keyboard. A video of this resource can be viewed https://www.facebook.com/mathswizards/

This fun, engaging quiz enables groups of children to form teams and solve simple math problems in the context of Halloween. The 5 rounds are animated and have sound. The rounds are, Ordering Pumpkins, Ghostly Frames, Candy Corn Fractions, Cauldron Tally and Trick and Treat. The math content: ordering 2 and 3 digit numbers; doubling and halving; finding a quarter, a half and three quarters of an amount; tallying data; and 5x and 10x tables and even numbers. Suitable for years 3/4.

A fun end of term Power Point Quiz for teams of students to work together solving fun maths puzzles. There is a score sheet slide which can be used to record points using the keyboard.There is a separate answer sheet for recording answers. The maths used includes, division and multiplication,calculations, ordering whole numbers to 1000, identifying shapes and continuing a sequence of times tables forward and backward. Each of the 5 rounds is designed around the Christmas theme, Falling snowballs, Christmas puddings, Christmas stockings, Snowmoblies and Christmas trees. After each round the teams swap sheets to mark their answers. The slides are fully animated including sound.

This resource looks at formulae used in everyday life. The scenarios include: casino for calculating the value of chips, stopping distances using a link to RosPa website, height of frogs' jumps, BMI calculations, spirals using Pythagoras, Penpals comparing temperatures. There is enough material for a whole lesson and several extension activities. This is an interesting and engaging resource with animations.

To enhance any history lesson about Ancient Greece, download this attractive and interesting set of maths problems which depict scenes from Ancient Greek culture. The maths is suitable for yrs 5/6 or yr 4 (with support). The scenes cover: Timeline, Olympics, Chronos God of Time, Trojan Horse, and Building a Temple. The maths covers: ordering time, placing numbers 1-10 into Olympic rings to total 12 in each ring, using 3 timers of 2,3 and 6 mins to make all the times to 20 mins, halve and quarter dimensions, and finally make plans of a temple using 34 pillars. The quiz format allows teams to choose team names and enter scores onto the score slide.

Fun end of term nostalgic quiz highlighting maths used on a traditional seaside holiday. (year 4) There are 5 rounds of problems for teams of children to solve. Buying ice creams, building sandcastles, donkey rides, sea shell patterns and finding sea creatures. The topics covered include money, rectangular pattern, tallying, time, combinations. Updated to allow score entry via keyboard. Ideal for end of year.

This colourful cross curricular quiz enables groups of students to work in teams. The 5 rounds explore the Viking era, weighing of metals, writing, Viking ships, and a Viking journey. Mathematics has been used in all aspects of this quiz. Codes, vectors, ordering years, and calculations. A link to the BBC website adds further interest in order to solve one of the problems (approx 3 mins). There is an accompanying answer sheet for teams to use. This quiz could be used as a stand alone quiz or as part of a topic. NB The score slide has been updated to allow keyboard entry. An animation help slide for vectors has been added 12.04.17

Two cross curricular fun resources for History and Maths.Quiz 2 is aimed at lower KS2 and quiz 1 upper KS2. The class is divided into 6 teams who work together to solve maths problems related to the Romans. The quiz lasts about one hour.Categories include Timeline, Roman money, Roman Numerals, Roman Army, Mosaics, Roman Toilets and a Roman Walk. There is also an answer sheet to download. This activity should involve discussion around solving maths problems. It could be used as a stand alone activity or complement a history topic. These resources have been updated so that the score slide can be completed using the keyboard.

An interesting and engaging PowerPoint using maths to highlight the Chinese New Year in a quiz format. Teams of pupils collaborate to solve the problems or complete the activities. There are 5 rounds. In Chinese characters pupils have to find the mode as different characters appear on the screen such as Fate or Good Fortune. In Firework Festival fireworks last for different amounts of time and the combinations have to be found. The number of chopsticks needed for two restaurants with 2 types of table, square and rectangular.The Chinese Zodiac requires matching of years to the correct animal. Finally a magic square is used to calculate Steve Chan's lucky number. Updated so that the scores and team names can be entered via keyboard.

Fed up with Past papers or questions? Try this fun, animated Thousand Pound Drop Game. Based on the Million Pound Drop TV game, pairs of pupils compete to keep as much money as possible by spreading their money on answers. Meanwhile teachers use the game to extend learning by discussing how answers were chosen. There are 26 slides.

Will your pupils think you have magical powers? Maybe! From a pack of playing cards select the diamonds and clubs 2-9. Put them on the desk face down. Get a student to come out and choose one of each suit. They can hold them up for the class to see. Click the card to advance the slide. A set of instructions appears and the class have to follow these to produce a number. Ask them to tell you the number. Click on the magic wand (for the magic sound) to help you find their two cards. There are 3 different puzzles each one is repeated making a total of 6. To find the cards from the first 2 puzzles subtract 12 . The diamond is the 10s digit and the units is the club. To find the next 2 puzzles, subtract 40. Again the 10s digit is the diamond and the units the club. For the last 2 puzzles, subtract 70. The hundreds digit is the diamond and the units the club. There is a separate worksheet for students to investigate how these puzzles work. Depending on the ability of the students algebra may be used.

Are you a MagicTeacher? A pupil chooses 3 consecutive numbers. Another chooses a multiple of 3. The class carries out a calculation including long multiplication. The magic teacher is able to tell the class the 3 numbers and the total of the calculation. Several examples can be completed and an algebraic solution can be found.

A lively investigation into the number of ways fireworks can be let off. The challenge is to find out how many ways for 10 fireworks. Start simple, tabulate, look for patterns.

This fun, colourful and animated investigation engages students with the latest craze in a meaningful way. How many ways of capturing Pokemon? Starting with 3, then 4, completing a table, looking for patterns and finally finding the number of ways for 10 Pokemon. It could be extended into algebra.It is suitable for Upper KS2 or lower KS3.