Engage your students with this spooky mystery on percentages of amounts. Students need to use the 12 clues to work out how many sweets Frank gets whilst trick or treating. To do this they will have to work out simple percentages of amounts (10%, 20%, 35%, 50%, 100%) and use some logic.
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Test your pupils' knowledge of indices and expose misconceptions with this mathematical reasoning task. Pupils must determine whether the 12 statements are always, sometimes or never true. Encourage literacy by getting them to justify and discuss their answers.
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Promote independent thinking and problem solving strategies with this resource on angles in triangles. Pupils must use their mathematical knowledge along with the clues provided to solve the 'mystery'.
Pupils will have to use the fact that interior angles in a triangle sum to 180 degrees. They will also have to use the properties of special types of triangles (e.g. isosceles triangles have 2 equal angles).
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Test your pupils' knowledge of simplifying expressions and expose misconceptions with this mathematical reasoning task. Pupils must determine whether the 12 statements are always, sometimes or never true. Encourage literacy by getting them to justify and discuss their answers.
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This bingo game on equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages would make a great starter for lessons on comparing and ordering FDP or calculating FDP of amounts. Use a mastery approach and make sure your students have the prior knowledge in place to access your lesson.
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Engage your students with this festive mystery! Students need to use the 12 clues to work out how many elves Santa needs to make all his presents. To do this they will have to work with time, basic percentages and arithmetic. They will also have to work in a logical and methodical way and they will have to use mathematical reasoning.
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Fifteen spooky questions which are perfect to use as a quiz, relay race or treasure hunt at Halloween. The resource includes full instructions and worked solutions so it's a fuss free option for your lessons around Halloween.
The questions themselves are best suited for a KS3 class or a foundation group at KS4. They cover a variety of topics including:
calculating
percentages
fractions
time
conversions
area
money
This bingo game on finding the highest common factor would make a great starter for lessons on finding HCF and LCM from venn diagrams or factorising expressions. Use a mastery approach and make sure your students have the prior knowledge in place to access your lesson.
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Test your pupils' knowledge of trig graphs and expose misconceptions with this mathematical reasoning task. Pupils must determine whether the 12 statements are always, sometimes or never true. Encourage literacy by getting them to justify and discuss their answers.
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Promote independent thinking and problem solving strategies with this resource on areas and volumes of similar shapes. Pupils must use their mathematical knowledge along with the clues provided to solve the 'mystery'.
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Engage your pupils in practicing how to enlarge shapes by a fractional scale factor, now included at foundation tier GCSE. This task requires pupils to enlarge shapes by a given scale factor from a given point, if correctly completed it will spell out a hidden word.
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Promote independent thinking and problem solving strategies with this resource on angles in quadrilaterals. Pupils must use their mathematical knowledge along with the clues provided to solve the 'mystery'.
Pupils will have to use the fact that the interior angles in a quadrilateral sum to 360 degrees. They will also have to use some angle properties of quadrilaterals (e.g. opposite angles in a parallelogram are equal).
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This bingo game on exact values of sine, cosine and tangent would make a great starter for lessons on solving problems without a calculator by using exact values. Use a mastery approach and make sure your students have the prior knowledge in place to access your lesson.
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A fun Easter-themed activity - two different animal nets for pupils to colour, cut-out and create! All you need to do is print it off.
Included in the resource are two nets: a cube (bunny) and a triangular pyramid (chick). Each has little extras to stick on - feet, wings and ears!
Once pupils have completed the activity, they can discuss the properties of the 3D shapes (e.g. faces, edges and vertices).
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Test your pupils' knowledge of direct and inverse proportion in a motivating and engaging way with this differentiated target table. The aim is to reach a target score, set by you, by answering questions from the table. The questions are differentiated, with different point values, so pupils can choose their own difficulty level.
The easiest questions require students to set up an equation between two variables which are directly proportional. The hardest questions require pupils to set up an equation between x and y where y is inversely proportional to the cube of x (for example). In every question pupils will need to use their equation to find the value of y for a given value of x (or visa-versa). All the questions are purely algebraic but a contextual problem could be used as a nice plenary.
This resource has been designed with the new 2017 GCSE curriculum in mind and is appropriate for a higher class. Although. it could also be used with a higher ability foundation class as direct and inverse proportion is now on the foundation specification.
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Promote independent thinking and problem solving strategies with this resource on fractions of amounts. Pupils must use their mathematical knowledge along with the clues provided to solve the 'mystery'.
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Promote independent thinking and problem solving strategies with this resource on equations of circles. Pupils must use their mathematical knowledge along with the clues provided to solve the 'mystery'.
Pupils will have to write the equation of a circle using the centre and radius. They will also have to work with the circumference in terms of pi, use pythagoras' theorem to calculate the distance between two points and square a surd.
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Promote independent thinking and problem solving strategies with this resource on column vectors. Pupils must use their mathematical knowledge along with the clues provided to solve the 'mystery' which involves them locating the position of 7 squares on a coordinate grid.
This resource is specifically designed for the new GCSE which requires pupils at both higher and foundation tier to solve problems with column vectors.
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Promote independent thinking and problem solving strategies with this resource on calculating pressure using force and area. Pupils must use their mathematical knowledge along with the clues provided to work out which of the animals will sink in the snow!
This is a topic which is new to the GCSE for 2017 and is assessed at both higher and foundation tier.
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This bingo game on calculating area of rectangles would make a great starter for lessons on area of compound shapes, surface area of cuboids and volume of cuboids. Use a mastery approach and make sure your students have the prior knowledge in place to access your lesson.
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