A resource that took me 5 lessons to go through. So there’s a unit here. (Adding in a few little worksheets I found online for some extra questions) Introduces sin and cos separately, using similar triangles. Then moves onto trig tables, so students aren’t just pressing a ‘magic’ button on their calculator. Then a little exercise choosing between them. Then tan. Then choosing sin/cos/tan. Then angles. Lots here. Lots of questions, lots of examples. No challenging or problem solving questions. This was meant as an introduction.

Needs a lot of printing (due to the nature of the topic) NOTE : I update stuff often, chopping and changing or correcting errors or general improvements. The latest version of this PowerPoint can always be found here.

A lesson focusing on learning the names of polygons (with a Quizlet link) and saying if something IS a Polygon or not

Students measure sides of shape to determine if it is regular or not. As always, please comment if you found this useful, have an idea on how to improve it, or want something changed.

Evaluating probability words and using a number line. Full lesson Lots of discussion

It’s CHRISTTTTTMMMAAAAATHSSSS All you need to run a full lesson with a mathematical cristmaths quiz. Designed to be accessible to all. Starts with a bit of Shakin’ Stevens asking students to tally various things he sings and notice bits of the really creepy video : - ) Goes onto a bit of converting time, some Suduku stuff, some Chris moyles Maths quizes and a bit of spot the mathematician. Have fun and have a wonderful Christmas Richard

Comparing populations. Finding the mean/median and range and comparing them for two sets of data. Ends with a past exam question.

An attempt at some variation theory This one was hard. I spent ages rearranging questions and looking at what should be added. Specifically, I had a massive dilemma when it came to introducing fractions. I was trying to point out the ways in which simplifying fractions and simplifying ratio were similar, but I’m not sure that I haven’t just led students down the wrong path thinking they’re equivalent. For instance 5 : 6 is 5/11 and 6/11, not 5/6. Hmmmm. The variations I used for section A. An example where you can use a prime divisor The opposite way around. What happens to our answer. Order is important! Half one side. 8 : 5 becomes 4 : 5 One that’s already as simple as possible. Time for some questioning? How do you know you can’t simplify it? It’s not just reducing the numbers down. Here you have to multiply up. Deals with what simple is. I have changed this from the picture to make only one number vary from the previous question. Needs a non prime divisor. This isn’t really a variation, though. It has nothing really to do with the previous questions! Again, double one side Double both. Our answer does not double! Adding a third part of the ratio. Changes the answer significantly. Doubling two parts here. Our parts don’t double in our answer! If you amend this and it works better, please let me know.

PowerPoint using the White Rose place value grids writing place values from both grids and identifying place value in the number. Includes an exercise, some whiteboard work a starter and a plenary.

Little powerpoint on finding the distance between two points using pythag. A starter, some example problem pairs, some whiteboard work, an exercise and a plenary. Nothing exciting.

Simple Powerpoint on reading timetables with a starter, example problem pair, an exercise, exam question and plenary.

Covers how to draw a frequency table, continuous and discrete data and finding the mode from grouped and ungrouped frequency tables. Has a starter, some example problem pairs, some questions (that aren’t amazing tbh) and a plenary.

Talking about spotting number bonds for addition and grouping your subtrahends for subtraction to make doing a calculation much simpler. A exercise on each.

A starter, some simple example problem pairs, as well as some talk about what makes a sensible estimate (we shouldn’t always round to 1 sf). Includes 2 exercises and a learning check.

Nothing ground breaking A starter An example problem pair Some whiteboard work An exercise A problem solving question Finishes with a plenary.

Simple PowerPoint. Starter Example/Problem Pair Some whiteboard work Two exercises (one probably needs printing, the worksheet is included in this pack) and a plenary Veers into decimals, but not too heavily. Enough to push, but also little enough to ignore if you’re not quite there yet.

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.

Covers the basics of differentiation. Designed for iGCSE but I will probably use this with my AS classes too. *A warm up *An interactive geogebra widget *An example problem pair *Some whiteboard work *An exercise *Another example problem pair covering things like 1/x and root x *Another exercise with some more difficult examples *A plenary with 5 quick questions.

Ungrouped. Starter Example problem pair Two sets of questions, one thinking about symmetry in the data Plenary Does not include using the average to find missing values in the table.

A very simple Powerpoint, with a starter, an example problem pair, some questions (including some rearranging equations practice) and a plenary.