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I have been a teacher for over 20 years - all the stuff I upload has been tried and tested in my classroom. I don't mind a discussion on Twitter too where I also share new resources. I now have a personal website: https://andylutwyche.com/

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I have been a teacher for over 20 years - all the stuff I upload has been tried and tested in my classroom. I don't mind a discussion on Twitter too where I also share new resources. I now have a personal website: https://andylutwyche.com/
Defuse The Bomb - Graphs (Linear and Non-Linear)
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Defuse The Bomb - Graphs (Linear and Non-Linear)

(17)
That terrorist, The Mathematician, is at it again. Make sure that you cut the right coloured wires to save everyone! This involves basic linear graphs, through more complicated linear graphs to quadratics and non-linear graphs (cubics, reciprocals and exponentials). My students seem to like this Defuse The Bomb concept, so as Simple Minds said in the Eighties, 2 Unlimited in the Ninieties, and just about any artist since the Millennium: if it ain't broke, don&'t fix it.
Baking Bad - Season 2 - Surface Area and Volume
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Baking Bad - Season 2 - Surface Area and Volume

(15)
This help William 'Billy' Black calculate how much grease-proof paper he needs plus how much each cake tine can hold. The shapes go from cuboids to a cylinder to a hemisphere to a frustum, so you can start and finish where you like.
Reading and Writing Large Numbers Codebreaker
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Reading and Writing Large Numbers Codebreaker

(17)
This is a simple codebreaker to ensure that students can write a worded number in digits; if they finish they can have a go at writing the numbers that aren't used in words. The joke is one I found online but does the job!
Describing Transformations
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Describing Transformations

(17)
This is pretty basic describing of transformation on a co-ordinate grid with a few "challenge" questions. It involves reflection (in x and y axes), rotation (centre (0,0), translation and enlargement (centre (0,0)). The "challenge" questions involve reflecting in other lines including y=x, vertical and horizontal; rotation away from the origin and an enlargement away from the origin. I have left it in MS Word so you can edit the challenge questions out.
Prison Break - Loci
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Prison Break - Loci

(19)
Using the characters from Prison Break Season 1 (trailer is included) you have to narrow down the search area for the authorities. Maps are provided. There are seven to catch.
Batman Trigonometry
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Batman Trigonometry

(13)
Calculate the missing measurements to help the Police Commissioner in Gotham City and Batman catch the criminals. Includes missing sides and angles.
Symmetry and Logos
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Symmetry and Logos

(10)
I've been meaning to do this for ages and finally got around to doing it. Describe the symmetry on each logo - should open up some discussion.
Multiples and Factors Codebreaker
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Multiples and Factors Codebreaker

(10)
A really bad joke (I think I've surpassed myself with this one) but some practice on multiples and factors on this one. As I say on all of these they can be used as a starter, plenary, homework, discussion exercise, whatever you like basically.
Spot The Mistakes - Expressions and Equations
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Spot The Mistakes - Expressions and Equations

(8)
This is a revision aid where students must read the 'notes' carefully and find the deliberate errors (and possibly undeliberate ones!). I have split (with some overlap) it up into three parts going from 'what is an expression/identity/equation?', through simplifying, expanding brackets, factorising into a bracket, solving equations, multiplying out 2 brackets, factorising quadratics and solving quadratics (factorising, completing the square and the formula). The aim is to get them active in their revision!
Percentage Change Codebreakers
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Percentage Change Codebreakers

(8)
Two sheets to discover the punchlines to two jokes. The first sheet is simple "increase/decrease", the second is worded questions including finding an original amount and finding the percentage of change.
Defuse The Bomb - Solving Equations
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Defuse The Bomb - Solving Equations

(14)
Four different sheets to practise solving linear equations rnaging from simple one step to two step to brackets (including variables on both sides of the "equals") to fractional parts. Designed as a quick starter, plenary or homework.