Includes A starter Two example problem pairs on finding frequencies and drawing the missing items. An exercise involving a bit of thinking (that owes a BIG debt of gratitude to @giftedHKO for the inspiration) Two exam questions A learning check plenary.

Trying to use variation theory My thinking A question to start Reversing the terms. Does balancing still work? A subtraction. How does this effect our balance. Does reversing the terms still lead us to the same answer Increasing the constant by one. What happens? Also: a decimal answer. We can have a negative answer Divide x, instead of multiplying it. Increasing co-efficient of x by one. What happens to our answer? Doubling co-efficient of x. Not sure about these last two. I think they may be a step back from question 7. This is the problem with presenting these in a linear format. These questions are variations on question 1, not question 7. I might experiment with some kind of spider diagram. Doubling the divisor from 7. Again, maybe the linear way these are written is a bit rubbish. Don’t know how I like the order of these questions, but there’s lots to think about and something to tweak. I have found the transition to asking ‘why have they asked you that question? What are they trying to tell you?’ has been difficult for some students, but I think it’s worth devoting time to it. If students are inspecting questions for things like this, maybe they’re more likely to read the question thoroughly and pick out it’s mathematics. Big hope, I know.

Students are shown 8 triangles. They have to assess if the traingles shown are mathematically valid. Some of the triangles do not add up to 180 dregrees. Some triangles have clear acute angles lables as obtuse angles. As an extention, some pupils can give written reasons WHY some of the traingles are not correct. NOTE: These are not drawn to scale, and are not to assess students ability to measure angles with a protractor. They are as a test of student's knowledge about the internal angles of a triangle.

Loads of shapes. Measure them. Add up the angles in each shape. What do you notice?

Very simple introduction to writing vectors in column notation, along with adding and multiplying them. Three example problem pairs, three matching exercises of questions, some mini whiteboard work and a plenary.

A really simple set of slides. First a little task on how to spot if two vectors are parallel, then one example, then 4 exam questions for students to work through.

Introduction to vector geometry. Includes examples and two exercises. One on simple questions where you just have to add the vector ‘routes’ and one that throws in some mid point stuff. NO PARALLEL LINES, COLINEAR POINTS OR PROOF HERE

A lesson on calculating efficiently with multiplication. Things like 5×17×2 (regrouping) 9×2+9×8 (distributive)

PowerPoint on column multiplication. *Starter with a focus on commutativity etc *Example problem pair to teach with *Some questions (a bit of a boring exercise, sorry) *A blooket *5 QQ to finish.

A really simple starter that should be the jumping off points for discussion. Loads of numbers with zeroes in. Some needed. Some not. Some COULD be needed (if you’re dealing with currency or bearings etc) A conversation starter.

Trying to aim for a mastery/in depth lesson, rather than getting all the index laws done in one lesson. Huge credit to Jo Morgan (@mathsjem). Nicked a lot from her for this resource. CHANGELOG: 2/10/22 Updated new style. Added some whiteboard work.

6 starters that help students connect the different words for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Lots of questions like ‘6 and 4 more’ and ‘4 lots of 6’ and ‘4 increased by 6’

Covering the two main types of function notation in IGCSE Maths. Goes through things like f(5), substituting integers, and f(x+2) substituting algebraic terms. Includes examples, excersises, a blooket, a learning a check. Full lesson.

Simple powerpoint containing some example problem pairs (best to print) and some questions on simple single event probability.

What is the hypotenuse? Finding the hypotenuse Finding the shorter side Mixed Questions I taught this over two lessons. There’s no fun questions here at all. This is all practice, practice, practice. I want my students to get the skills down before applying them.

Very much a zoom in on one particular skill. Multiplying up or down recipes. Some whiteboard work and some questions along with an example problem pair.

Covers sharing in two parts and three parts. Lots of questions. Printable pages at the end.

Deals with simplifying two part, three part ratios. Also includes a simplifying ratio colouring in puzzle, with loads of odd and weird ratios to discuss.

No context here. Just focused on questions about writing the formula and then finding values of y and x.

Covers writing equations, finding values and direct proportion involving things like x^2