This is an algebra catch-up worksheet and activity set aimed at lower attaining secondary school students who are struggling with algebra concepts. Designed to take them back to the beginning with simple activities about creating and simplifying expressions and substituting into them. The set includes the algebra catch-up booklet of 13 pages, which can be used either as a booklet to work through or as individual worksheets, and a match-up activity to check understanding of collecting like-terms. Perfect for individual or small group catch-up sessions, this set also works well as an introduction to algebra for younger pupils. Answer booklet included.

12 printable Mathematician of the month posters. Each poster is on two sides of A3 and features pictures, information, trivia and questions on a mathematician who was born in that month. From people renowned for their maths such as Isaac Newton and Evariste Galois, through to less well-known mathematicians such as Katherine Johnson and G. H. Hardy and people more famous for other things such as Florence Nightingale, each month highlights some of the mathematics of each person along with further information about their impact on the world. Perfect to put up as a changeable display each month and great for showing pupils that there is more to maths than just arithmetic and quadratic equations. The posters come as PDF files with two A3 sheets for each mathematician. Each month of the year is included (maybe August could be put up in September).

A set of 45 printable worksheets covering addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers. The pack contains: Fifteen 2-digit addition worksheets - 5 without carrying, 5 with carrying and 5 mixed. Fifteen 2-digit subtraction worksheets - 5 with borrowing, 5 without borrowing and 5 mixed. Fifteen 2-digit addition and subtraction mix worksheets - 5 without carrying or borrowing, 5 with carrying and borrowing and 5 mixed. Each worksheet features 20 questions with space for pupils to write their working and answers. Answer sheets are included for all worksheets for easy marking. These worksheets make excellent warm-up activities for maths lessons and are great as practice for numeracy hour or for use as quick summative assessment. All worksheets and answer sheets are in printable PDF format. More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store. Related resources Arithmetic riddle packs Addition Subtraction Multiplication Mixed operations

A pack of 50 printable, fully-editable maths certificates featuring prominent mathematicians from throughout history. Each award features a different mathematician and an award category linked to that mathematician’s history. Historical figures featured include famous mathematicians such as Isaac Newton and Pythagoras through to more obscure figures such as Sophie Germain and Simon Stevin. A short biography of each mathematician is also included on each certificate. Perfect for end of term or year awards. The awards cover topics such as: mental mathematics - Katherine Johnson probability - Giralamo Cardano algebra - al-Khwarizmi statistics - Florence Nightingale geometry - Euclid algebraic equations - Niels Abel maps and scales - Gerardus Mercator area and circumference of circles - Archimedes coordinates - Rene Descartes and more… Also included are awards for maths skills such as: pair work - Mary Cartwright group work - Evariste Galois improvement in maths - Carl Friedrich Gauss being a star - John Flamsteed problem solving - Martin Gardner and more… The certificates are in printable PDF format in three colours; red, blue or white. Also included is the fully editable PowerPoint file allowing the name and date to be typed on, background designs to be changed or wording to be edited to suit individual students. Instructions are included on how to change the background colour of all certificates. Image attributions (where required) are also included in the download. More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store. Further resources Algebra Practice Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle Algebra Catch-up Booklet Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 classroom posters