Revision of English Mathematics Key Stage 3 and/or Key Stage 4 basics. Giant floor puzzle. Print to A3 paper and then cut out the triangles. Laminate if you wish to reuse. Testing suggests optimum size for groups is 8-10 pupils. Alternately, give a couple of pieces to each pupil at the start; then as pieces placed and pupils sit in circle to watch the “core team” fit the pairs together, run substitutions in/out of the choir team from the chairs. Alternately, insist each pupil holds a single puzzle piece and finds every match for his/her piece and then stands up holding their piece in the air. This requires an overhead fish-eye/sports camera looking down on your hall/room - and a bigger than A3 print.

A set of three colourful questions to encourage pupils to understand: (i) why angle-naming conventions exist and (ii) how to apply them.

Scaffolded. On a journey toward stronger work with pie charts and elsewhere.

It's a card sort: to match cubic graphs and cubic equations; possibly by utilising factor theorem to analyse the cubic equations into their factors.

Trigonometry - Card sort - all three ratios - all three types (labelled bronze; silver; gold)

A mind-opening starter pair.

An entry wordsearch with an associated card sort. Use Adobe's own .pdf viewer to print the card sort at two pages per sheet if you want it on A5 (remember to exclude the first, wordsearch, page if you do). Other sizes you can select for yourself.

This resource forces pupils to realise the limits of particular types of data: primary and secondary. It also enables them to take a few first steps towards working out how they might estimate a mean if they cannot calculate one precisely. As a bonus it also allows them to think of how they might find a mode and a median from secondary data.

A gentle hint as to why a squared x is not the same as an x. With an associated homework to assess learning. Might conclude by asking which value(s) of x allow mathematicians to add the coefficients of x's and squared x's with gay abandon; and how one could ever guarantee such a value of x will occur.

Linked to SoW and progression map.

Linked to SoW and progression map.

Linked to KS3 SOW & progress map.

Linked to SoW and progression map.

Linked to SoW and progression map.

Linked to SoW and progression map.

The ghosts have been frozen. Describe how the Major Sector Man will make his escape!

A mind opening starter.

Crossword. Fairly tough.

Crossword. Great way to introduce and/or round-off a topic and/or revise.

Snakes and ladders; but with fractions; and dodecagonal dice: sum the negatives *and* positives before you make *your* move! Yes, you too can practice: * calculating equivalent fractions, so you can translate the * fractions on the * faces of the dodecagonal dice you made and hence * calculate the sum of the * positive and negative fractions on respective faces of each and hence * make your correct directed fraction move! equivalent fractions | adding & subtracting fractions | directed number | nets | dodecagons | properties of solids