Resources for busy teachers of Maths and PE. In most cases you can just download, print and teach! If you would like to purchase more than one product at a time and there is not a bundle for it email me for a custom bundle to get 15% off the total price at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com
Resources for busy teachers of Maths and PE. In most cases you can just download, print and teach! If you would like to purchase more than one product at a time and there is not a bundle for it email me for a custom bundle to get 15% off the total price at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com
Powerpoint lesson for finding missing angles with all resources included. Resources include a work booklet, assessment for learning activities, starter and plenary. Skills covered include – finding angles in quadrilaterals and special quadrilaterals, finding multiple angles using angle facts including straight lines and at a point and forming and solving equations using knowledge of angle facts.
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing and maybe some cutting!). Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue: Find a missing angle in quadrilaterals and special quadrilaterals
Gold: Solve harder problems using properties of angles
Red: Form and solve equations using knowledge of angle facts
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
•Answers on the powerpoint
• A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections and help boxes
• A problem solving activity where students have to find 4 angles that add up to 360 (2 different versions)
•A card sort starter for properties of special quadrilaterals.
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach right away. The lessons use the following format:
•Starter
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• Assessment for learning activities
• Answers to all the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)
The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grades, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade.
This will take up a whole lesson.
This lesson would be appropriate to use as part of the Pearson Edexcel Foundation textbook unit 6, find more resources for that here.
This is the second lesson in the series and follows on from this lesson which you can find here.
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This is a lesson on enlargements for use in a secondary transformations unit. This enlargements lesson includes Powerpoint and workbook. Skills covered are: enlarging a shape from a centre of enlargement with a positive scale factor,enlarging a shape with a fractional scale factor, describing the enlargement.
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson without too much preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated (blue =easiest, gold=medium, red=harder)
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach enlargements, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format:
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• Answers to all the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)
The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade.
This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through)
See here for differentiated worksheets on Enlargements.
Updated - Fixed a couple of typos and 2 answers
Worksheets for students to complete in class. 3 levels of difficulty have been included:
• Blue (easy) - Combine transformations
•Gold (medium) - Describe fully a reflection, translation or rotation
•Red (harder) - Combine transformations and describe the single equivalent transformation
Christmas maths - tessellations. Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas. This could more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also colour it (great for displays!).
Includes:
Christmas tree (moderately easy)
Bauble (medium)
Candy cane (easy)
Christmas stocking with curved edges (hard)
Geometric christmas stocking (easy)
Elf (Hard)
Santas head (medium)
present (easy)
For each shape there is the following types of sheets:
An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off
An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off
A small template which is approx 1/8 of A4
A big template which are on their own A4 page
Examples of how to tessellate the shape/pre-made colouring pages for students that are really struggling to tessellate the shape correctly.
The geometric Christmas stocking is available as a free product here.
Click here for more Christmas maths resources
Transformations - reflections worksheets that have been differentiated. Includes reflecting a shape on a square grid, reflections in x or y lines on a coordinate grid with and describing the reflection. Suitable for KS3 or GSCE maths. Extra bonus fun activity included - reflections mystery picture. Perfect for classwork, homework or a revision lesson on transformations.
If you need a reflections lesson find my Powerpoint and workbook here.
What’s included:
• Blue (easy) - reflecting a shape on a square grid
•Gold (medium) - reflecting a shape in a line such as x=2 or y=-1
•Red (harder) - describing the transformation
•Reflections mystery pictures - students have to reflect the shapes to find out what the picture is (a dog). 2 levels of difficulty included with this -1. Reflection lines drawn in already 2. No reflection lines.
All answers included. Please rate and comment.
If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here, or an entire unit on transformations here.
This Christmas maths codebreaker gives students lots of practice at their times tables which helps them to reveal a Christmas Joke. A fun maths starter or reward for early finishers in the run up to Christmas.
Similar to my Halloween codebreaker freebie which is a “TES PICKS” resource.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke, fun Christmas clip art pictures included.
Find more Christmas maths activities here.
Worksheet on Enlargements for students to complete in class. Skills covered are enlarging a shape with a positive scale factor, enlarging a shape with a fractional scale factor and describing the enlargement.
This is most suitable for KS3 and Foundation GCSE. I also have a one suitable for Higher Tier GCSE which includes negative scale factors (The questions are different on each version so if you buy both products there are no duplicates).
In this product 3 levels of difficulty have been included:
Blue (easy) -Enlarge an object by an integer scale factor from a centre of enlargement
Gold (medium) -Enlarge an object by a fractional scale factor from a centre of enlargement.
Red (hard) - Describe fully an enlargement; work out a scale factor and centre of enlargement.
If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here
Differentiated worksheet on rotations, perfect for use in a transformations unit. Skills include: rotating a shape on a square grid, rotating a shape on a co-ordinate grid and describing the rotation.
Fully differentiated by colour - 3 levels of difficulty have been included:
• Blue (easy) - rotating a shape on a square grid
•Gold (medium) - rotating a shape on a coordinate grid
•Red (harder) - describing the transformation
All answers included.
Updated - Fixed question 3 as it was rotating off the grid. Fixed a couple of typos and one of the answers. Fonts updated and embedded.
If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here
If you need a rotations lesson find my Powerpoint and workbook here
A lesson on rotations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skils covered are rotating a shape around a given point on a square grid, rotating a shape about a set of coordinates and describing the rotation.
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives (blue =easiest, gold=medium, red=harder)
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach rotations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format:
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz
• Answers to all the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)
The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade.
This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through)
This Halloween maths codebreaker uses skills learnt in ordering decimals, substutition, length conversions and coordiantes to reveal halloween jokes. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practise ordering decimals, substitution, metric length conversions and coordinates in all 4 quadrants.
Each skill has a different sheet, so there are 4 total worksheets all with awesome Halloween clip art and answers included. The skills included here are normally covered in year 7 but could be used for any year group as a fun consolidation.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a halloween joke. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers.
Suggestions for use:
Give to students to do by themselves (self differentiated or teacher chooses)
Give for homework
Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a column each)
See here for a FREE Halloween codebreaker that uses multiplcation skills.
If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.
This Halloween maths codebreaker fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a halloween joke. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Fun Halloween clip art pictures included.
More Halloween codebreakers available here
If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.
This Christmas/Holiday maths one step equations maze will give students practice with their solving equations skills. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas. Great for a starter or early finishers near Christmas. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate solving equations without using a traditional worksheet. The maze uses positive values of x only.
This activity is great because students can check their own answers as they go through and most of the time, they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions.
This freebie includes 1 maze with solutions and some great Holiday clipart.
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
See here for more Christmas themed activities.
These self-checking printable maze worksheets will give students a fun way to review Multiplying and Dividing Negative Numbers. Great for use in a lesson on negative numbers when you don’t want to use traditional worksheets. Skills include a mixture of multiplying and dividing negative numbers. This is a fun way for students to consolidate multiplying and dividing negative numbers.
This activity is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions.
Included
★3 mazes (labeled at the bottom left)
★Answer Key for each maze
Features:
★Easy to use
★Self-checking
★At least 9 questions for students to answer
★Engaging
★Check answers at a glance
★Full solutions
Recommended uses for this activity
★a revison tool for students who have complete a unit on negative numbers
★A task for quick finishers and more able students
★ A starter to check for prior learning
This is a more engaging way of reviewing content. It is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realize they are answering multiple questions.
Students work through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
Want more multiplying and dividing negative numbers activities? Check out my multiplying and dividing BINGO activity here
Click here for more negative number resources.
A cross word and word search for Algebra key words.
Best used for KS3 but could be used for KS2 and KS4. I have included a crossword and word search with definitions instead of just words to find as it can be a good way to check students understanding of vocabulary (plus they love a wordsearch!). For less able students there is a word search with the clues and a wordbank to help them find the answers.
This product includes:
1 cross word with 13 clues and answers
1 word search with 13 clues and answers
1 word search 13 key words to find
Need a geometry key words word search or crossword? Click here
Need a number key words word search or crossword? Click here
A treasure hunt on finding the circumference of a circle when given the radius or diameter. Perfect for a lesson on circumference of circles.
This one is Blue (easy) - Find the circumference of a circle . Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card. They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on).
Suggestions for use:
Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!)
Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk
I also have 2 other treasure hunts for circumference of circles on find the radius or diameter when given the circumference here or on finding the arc length or perimeter of sectors here.
You can get all 3 together as a bundle here.
Need more on circumference of circles:
Circumference and parts of a circle whole lesson
This Easter maths codebreaker gives students lots of practice at their times tables which helps them to reveal a groan worthy Easter Joke. A fun maths starter or reward for early finishers in the run up to Easter.
UPDATED - swapped the m and t over.
Similar to my Halloween codebreaker freebie which is a “TES PICKS” resource.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal an Easter joke, fun Easter clip art pictures included.
If you would like more Easter themed maths activities please click here.
Christmas maths - tessellations. Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas. This could more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also colour it (great for displays!).
Includes:
Geometric christmas stocking (easy)
For this shape there is the following types of sheets:
An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off
An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off
A small template which is approx 1/8 of A4
A big template which are on their own A4 page
Examples of how to tessellate the shape/pre-made colouring pages for students that are really struggling to tessellate the shape correctly.
More Christmas tessellations are available here.
Click here for more Christmas maths resources
Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and whole numbers. 1 maze with full solutions are included. This is a fun way for students to consolidate rounding to 10, 100, 1000 and whole numbers.
This activity is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions.
Recommended uses for this activity
★a revision tool for students who have complete a unit on rounding to whole numbers and the nearest 10 etc
★A task for quick finishers and more able students
★ A starter to check for prior learning for students that are going to move onto rounding to decimal places
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
See here for more mazes on rounding.
A set of differentiated treasure hunts. Answers included.
Please see here for a FREE version of the Blue treasure hunt.
The 3 levels of difficulty are:
• Blue (easy) - solve simultaneous equations where the coefficient of x OR y is 1. E.g.
10x + y = 4
8x + y = 25
•Gold (medium) - solve simultaneous equations where the coefficient of x OR y is a factor of the other x or y E.g.
4y + 7x = 117
2y + 2x = 40
•Red (harder) - solve simultaneous equations where x and y are random integers or decimals E.g.
4y - 3x = 34.5
6y + 5x = 56.5
Circumference of circles treasure hunts. 3 different difficulties for circumference of circles included with these treasure hunts. Skills included are: finding the circumference when given the radius or diameter, finding the diameter or radius when given the circumference and finding the arc length and perimeter of sectors.
Updated - Changed some of the gold answers so they show the radius rather than the diameter of the circle.
Answers and pupil record cards included.
Please see herefor a free version of the blue treasure hunt.
The 3 levels of difficulty are:
• Blue (easy) -Find the circumference of a circle
•Gold (medium) - Find the diameter or radius when given the circumference
•Red (harder) - Find the arc length and perimeter of sectors
My other resources for circumference of a circle:
Differentiated worksheet on Circumference of circles
Circumference and parts of a circle whole lesson (download, print and teach)