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Making Maths Memorable

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Ever since my PGCE I have been convinced that every Maths topic has a unique and interesting way to be taught. 7 years later and I have collected and created 100s of resources to prove my point. All resources, including IB and A Level, are designed to be thoroughly engaging but yet cover every bit of content required with plenty of practise too. Teach LCM with the life of the Cicada bugs or teach proportions using celebrity faces and the golden ratio. All fully animated engaging powerpoints.

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Ever since my PGCE I have been convinced that every Maths topic has a unique and interesting way to be taught. 7 years later and I have collected and created 100s of resources to prove my point. All resources, including IB and A Level, are designed to be thoroughly engaging but yet cover every bit of content required with plenty of practise too. Teach LCM with the life of the Cicada bugs or teach proportions using celebrity faces and the golden ratio. All fully animated engaging powerpoints.
Golden Ratio in the face investigation
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Golden Ratio in the face investigation

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A great lesson where students investigate the golden ratio proportions in the face. A 10 minute starter using the same concept with the hand helps introduce the idea. They can then look at how well celebrities fit the golden ratio. Finishes with a video that shows somebody using photoshop to make a face match the golden ratio grid (a link to youtube).
Angle calculations Killer Question worksheet
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Angle calculations Killer Question worksheet

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I created an extra tough question that uses all KS3 angle knowledge and takes a good half lesson to complete. All students love trying to tackle such a difficult question that is still totally accessible. Answers included. Students need to know the following: Angles around a point Angles on a straight line Angles in parallel lines Angles in polygons
All Percentages for GCSE
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All Percentages for GCSE

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Many lessons worth of resources. Covers the teaching for eveything on Percentages with worksheets, exercises and revision. Included a mini test that can be complete and peer marked in the lesson. Also an A-A* focused task where students work in pairs answering questions stuck up around the room.
Vectors GCSE
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Vectors GCSE

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Everything you need to teach the vectors unit. Around 3-4 lessons worth without worksheets. Use alongside a textbook if required but to neccessary for a top set.
Inequalities - solving - diagrams - regions
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Inequalities - solving - diagrams - regions

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Everything required to teach all of inequalities (not including Linear Programming). Many lessons worth with a focus on the regions part. Print the blank coordinate grids and guide students with the powerpoint. Lots of practice for them to do too with all answers on the PowerPoint.
Christmas Mobius Strips
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Christmas Mobius Strips

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Students find it fascinating to what happens when cutting a mobius strip in half. Then how different it is when you cut it at a 3rd. The powerpoint guides students to discover the outcomes themselves. Armed with a few extra strips of colourful paper and a stapler the teacher can connect everything the students made to make a very mathematical christmas decoration.
HCF, LCM and Prime Factors
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HCF, LCM and Prime Factors

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At least 3 lessons worth of material. First lesson goes through Highest Common Factors and Lowest Common Multiples. Engaging nature facts and memorable methods help the learning of these skills. Moves on to understanding prime numbers and what they are. Followed by prime factor trees (prime factor decomposition). This leads into using prime factors to calculate the HCF and LCM using Venn Diagrams.
What is the Volume of your body project
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What is the Volume of your body project

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Using their ability to calculate the volumes of cuboids, prisms and spheres students use measuring tapes and maths to estimate the volume of their body. Differentiated resource over two levels so students can stick to just using cuboids or can move onto using spheres, cyclinders and trapezoidal prisms. Perfect project to finish off a mensuration unit.
Combination of transformations
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Combination of transformations

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To be used at the end of the transformations scheme. Includes a complicated worksheet that I made in which produces a picture if students correctly carry out all the transformations.
Plotting straight lines y = mx + c
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Plotting straight lines y = mx + c

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** Students need access to a computer and this Excel worksheet ** Created on Excel. Students need access to a computer to use this worksheet. Lines are instantly plotted when students enter the correct values in the equations. Practise of plotting lines and writing equations. Advanced to plotting quadratics. Tasks are differentiated along the task bar at the bottom. The worksheet responds instantly to incorrect answers. Examples given to help students independent learning.
Using a combination of transformations
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Using a combination of transformations

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I spent hours making this! A difficult worksheet that can be used at the end of studying all transformations. Follow the transformations correctly for each shape will produce a picture in the middle. (a fish!)
Enlargements full lesson with worksheets
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Enlargements full lesson with worksheets

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This resource teaches through PowerPoint and worksheets. The worksheets and PowerPoint run alongside each other so you can demonstrate at the front and show the answers to the worksheets at the front. Includes a worksheet and PowerPoint to explain how negative enlargements work. 4 worksheets in total allowing for brilliant differentiation or split it over two lessons.
Decision 1 - Chapter 1 - Algorithms
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Decision 1 - Chapter 1 - Algorithms

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PowerPoints written so that a teacher can learn from the PowerPoints and teach from them. Students can use the PowerPoints to learn independently too. Many colleagues have used my lessons on Decision 1 without a strong understanding of Decision themselves. Includes an easy to mark chapter test with answers.
Half lesson, one sheet test on solving all Linear Equations
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Half lesson, one sheet test on solving all Linear Equations

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I have written a number of mini tests to fit perfectly on to one sheet of A4 (I actually print them 2 to a page so A5!). These tests can be completed and peer marked in the same lesson and will be reused by you many many times over the years. Really easy to mark due to the layout of the test paper and the markschemes included. This tests all types of soliving linear equation questions that can be found in the GCSE. Ideal for finishing the Linear Equations chapter. I use it for a pretest before the official chapter test.
Half lesson, one sheet test on all tranformations
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Half lesson, one sheet test on all tranformations

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I have written a number of mini tests to fit perfectly on to one sheet of A4 (I actually print them 2 to a page so A5!). These tests can be completed and peer marked in the same lesson and will be reused by you many many times over the years. Really easy to mark due to the layout of the test paper and the markschemes included. This tests all types of transformation questions that can be found in the GCSE. Ideal for finishing the transformations chapter. I use it for a pretest before the official chapter test.
Half lesson, one sheet test on Solving Quadratic Equations
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Half lesson, one sheet test on Solving Quadratic Equations

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I have written a number of mini tests to fit perfectly on to one sheet of A4 (I actually print them 2 to a page so A5!). These tests can be completed and peer marked in the same lesson and will be reused by you many many times over the years. Really easy to mark due to the layout of the test paper and the markschemes included. This tests all types of solving quadratic equation questions that can be found in the GCSE. Ideal for finishing the Quadratic Equations chapter. Includes factorising, the formula, completing the square and trial and improvement. I use it for a pretest before the official chapter test.
Half lesson, one sheet test on Indices and Standard form
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Half lesson, one sheet test on Indices and Standard form

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I have written a number of mini tests to fit perfectly on to one sheet of A4 (I actually print them 2 to a page so A5!). These tests can be completed and peer marked in the same lesson and will be reused by you many many times over the years. Really easy to mark due to the layout of the test paper and the markschemes included. This tests all types of Indices and Standard Form questions that can be found in the GCSE. Ideal for finishing the Indices chapter. I use it for a pretest before the official chapter test.