A PowerPoint of 20 puzzles. This provides spatial awareness practice, CAT4 practice and cognitive abilities test practice.
Difficulty: Level 2 Medium.
Cut out cards and rearrange to make tracks. Use symmetry, rotation, reflection and 90 degree angles to complete the tracks.
Track cards are inspired by the amazing Serpentiles originally published by ThinkFun but no longer manufactured.
A free pdf is available and can be downloaded here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12916826
A PowerPoint of 20 puzzles. This provides spatial awareness practice, CAT4 practice and cognitive abilities test practice.
Difficulty: Level 3 Hard.
Cut out cards and rearrange to make tracks. Use symmetry, rotation, reflection and 90 degree angles to complete the tracks.
Track cards are inspired by the amazing Serpentiles originally published by ThinkFun but no longer manufactured.
A free pdf is available and can be downloaded here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12919925
Histograms: GCSE questions for maths lessons. One PowerPoint with questions and answers, animated for a great teaching resource. Finally crack one of the most difficult topics with your students.
Questions consist of a range of high level - M4 from CCEA.
Free pdfs are available with questions and answers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13047194
Please contact Cubed Maths if you identify any incorrections.
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Key words: histograms, compound measures, stratified sampling, sample, estimation, mean, mode, median,
quartile, interquartile range, frequency density, measurement, frequency, class width
Estimation and approximation: questions for maths lessons. One PowerPoint with questions and a separate PowerPoint with answers revealed on presentation.
Questions consist of a range of medium level.
Free pdfs are available with questions and answers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13053978
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Key words: Estimate, approximate, approximation, square root, round, decimals, area, division, multiplication.
A 22 slide PowerPoint showing some really important maths concepts in concrete form and which pupils should be aware of. Cuisenaire rods are the main focus but enhanced with the counting stick to produce a powerful arsenal for additive reasoning.
It covers equivalence, inequalities, decimals, factors, primes, composites, fractions, squares and algebra.
There is at least a weeks material for all ages at primary school and applicable to secondary students who have gaps in their understanding. Please review it if you download it and do put it to good use.
The PowerPoint allows the teacher to introduce the key ideas to students via extensive use of animation. Most of the ideas are easier to access through animation and slow reveal.
75 Bar model questions and answers for GCSE thinking. The questions are from week 2 to 4 Barvember 2020.
Each day, there are 2 accessible questions, another 2 that requires more thought and a final challenging question.
All sorts of mathematical contexts are used. The solutions are efficient and designed to a minimum number of steps.
Week 1 from 2020 can be freely downloaded from here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12881886
An 11 slide PowerPoint that uses Couch to 5K as a context for thinking about time, distance and speed.
The cards and tables of each C25K session are useful to initiate class conversations about components of speed and how to go about getting fitter.
Ratio and percentages can also be explored using this context.
The correct answers are included and there is a spreadsheet containing the constructed charts which can be edited.
A free pdf version of the slides without answers can be downloaded from here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12850965
A 46 slide PowerPoint that introduces or utilises many mathematical concepts. Mainly for post-primary settings but elements could be used in primary.
A free pdf can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12555186
There is at least a months material for lessons and will be useful for revision classes or an introduction to the concepts involved. Please review it if you download it and do put it to good use.
The PowerPoint allows the teacher to introduce the key ideas to students via animated slides. Most of the ideas are easier to access through animation and slow reveal. There are answers for most problems in the slides notes.
These are the concepts covered:
Match Combinations: generalisations, combinations, multiplicative reasoning
Two-way grids: preparation for simultaneous equations
Comparing texts: data handling, sample sizes, mode, range
Direction and distance: compass directions, left and right directions, absolute, relative
Rectangle: area, perimeter, asymptotes
Square patterns: 1. multiplicative reasoning, graphs, tables, algebraic manipulation, sequences, linear, quadratic
Dissecting a square/rectangle: tangram, square, parallelogram, triangle, proportion, percentages
Problems about perimeter and area: area, perimeter
Ratio and proportion mystery: percentages, ratio, proportion, average (mean)
House swap: interpreting distance-time graph
Probability mystery: probability, card sort
Fractions mystery: fractions, card sort
Venn diagrams: factors, multiples, prime numbers
Broken window: logic
Shikaku: introduction and development
Three problems: algebraic reasoning
Logic puzzle: introduction to this type of reasoning
What’s it worth?: preparation for simultaneous equations
Wacky races: ordinal and time logic puzzle, card sort
Sudoku
Znorlian: binary, sequences, card sort
Roofs: algebraic reasoning
Antidotes: ratio, percentages, fractions
Percentage paradox: introduction to Simpson’s paradox
Probability investigation: tally table, sequence of outcomes
Card trick: binary, base 2 place value headings
Trial and improvement: questions for maths lessons. One PowerPoint with questions and a separate PowerPoint with questions and answers.
Questions consist of a range of medium level.
Free pdfs are available with questions and answers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12976856
Please contact Cubed Maths if you identify any incorrections.
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Key words: 𝑥, algebra, equation, rounding, decimal place
Inequalities: questions for maths lessons. One PowerPoint with questions and a separate PowerPoint with questions and answers.
Questions consist of a range of medium level.
Free pdfs are available with questions and answers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12959723
Please contact Cubed Maths if you identify any incorrections.
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Key words: <, >, ≤, ≥, greater than, less than, equal to, number line, inequality, algebra, integer, one sign, two signs
A 22 slide PowerPoint that situates charts/graphs in the data handling cycle.
It covers collecting, presenting, sorting and analysing data along with bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, decision tree diagrams, two-way tables, flow charts, Venn diagrams, stem & leaf diagrams and scatter graphs.
There is at least a weeks material for GCSE lessons and will be useful for revision classes or an overview of the concepts involved. So, far instance, much greater depth would be required for averages. Please review it if you download it and do put it to good use.
The PowerPoint allows the teacher to introduce the key ideas to students via animated slides. Most of the ideas are easier to access through animation and slow reveal.
Surds: questions for maths lessons. One PowerPoint with questions and a separate PowerPoint with answers revealed on presentation.
Free pdfs are available with questions and answers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13056997
Please contact Cubed Maths if you identify any incorrections.
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079 497 497 81
Key words: simplify, expand, root, squared, difference of two squares, surd, rational, Pythagoras, cosine, cos, tangent, tan, space diagonal, area, cube, cuboid, trapezium
Surds: questions for maths lessons. One pdf with questions and a separate pdf with questions and answers.
A PowerPoint is available with correct answers animated so that each question can be discussed as a class or group: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13057000
Please contact Cubed Maths if you identify any incorrections.
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079 497 497 81
Key words: simplify, expand, root, squared, difference of two squares, surd, rational, Pythagoras, cosine, cos, tangent, tan, space diagonal, area, cube, cuboid, trapezium
Surds: questions for GCSE maths revision. One pdf with questions and answers.
Please contact Cubed Maths if you identify any incorrections or have ideas for further papers.
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Key words: plans, elevations, front, side, view, elevation, rotational symmetry, cube, cuboid, structure, grid, volume, 3-dimensional.