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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.
Circle theorems and intersecting chords
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Circle theorems and intersecting chords

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Absolutely everything you need to teach Circle Theorems. Intersecting Chords is not in the GCSE but nice extension for the top ability and is in the MEP. Guides students to write revision notes for each theorem and gives directed practise after each theorem is learnt (on powerpoint and on worksheet). Finish with (or use throughout) a 50 question worksheet that hits all theorems. All answers included. A handy worksheet to help students match theorems to questions for revision later down the line also included.
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.
Linear Programming iGCSE
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Linear Programming iGCSE

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A couple of lessons clearly explaining the difficult Linear Programming questions in the iGCSE. Animation shows step by step method. Use the worksheets alongside the PowerPoint. This resource assumes that students already know how to use inequalities to shade regions.
Compass patterns
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Compass patterns

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A fun couple of lessons to get students use to using their compass. I always use this lesson before starting the constructions unit. This resource demonstrates how to draw two different patterns and then encourages students to have a go at making their own crop circles. The patterns easily take up one lesson. The crop circles can be saved for another lesson later in the year.
Half lesson, one sheet test on Trigonometry (focusing on Sine and Cosine rules)
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Half lesson, one sheet test on Trigonometry (focusing on Sine and Cosine rules)

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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 test is particularly difficult looking at 3D trig and bearings. For SOHCAHTOA and Pythagoras please download the other test that focuses on the basics.
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.
Geometry project - Making Straw Planes
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Geometry project - Making Straw Planes

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**Students will need around 5 plastic straws each, paper, sticky tape and scissors** A fully differentiated Geometry project on making optimum straw aeroplanes. Easy to carry it out in any way you wish. Can do it over 2 lessons or do it over 5. Three levels of difficulty are indicated by the colour of the straws in the slides. Different difficulties assume different understanding of various topics. Easy (green): Measurements, circumference (not calculating), area of rectangles, Mean Medium (yellow): above plus area of circles and area of triangles Hard (red): above plus volumes of cylinders and areas of trapeziums. Recommended for 11 to 14 year olds at the end of the year.
Connect four
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Connect four

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Great starter activity. Can use coordinates or maths questions (or put your own questions in!). Click on the left of the circles to put a yellow counter in or the right of the circles to put a red counter in.
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.
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.
Oil Trading Game
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Oil Trading Game

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Fun one-off lesson. Perfect for end of term fun lessons! Students get to buy and sell oil barrels using news items to aid their decisions. All explained clearly through the powerpoint. 3 different sets of news articles so potential to use it for 3 different lessons with the same class. Lasts around 45 minutes. Teachers use a clever excel spreadsheet that does all the calculations for them. If students make a mistake with their own calculations the spreadsheet will "fine" them and calculate their totals by itself.
Half lesson, one sheet test on Surface Area and Volumes (Circles, Pyramids and Spheres)
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Half lesson, one sheet test on Surface Area and Volumes (Circles, Pyramids and Spheres)

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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 Surface Area and Volume questions that can be found in the GCSE. Ideal for finishing the Mensuration chapter. I use it for a pretest before the official chapter test.