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 gymanstics pair balances reference sheet and task card set are perfect for your Primary or Secondary Gymnastics Lessons. This resource includes a set of Gymnastics Pair Balances task cards for pairs balances and routines as well as an A4 differentiated visual aid (with around 50 balances) students can use to copy the paired balances from. The tasks take students through how to match and mirror individual balances and matching and mirroring independently. They also included tasks that use the pair balances resource sheet: Students select and practice Find ways of getting into and out of the balances Linking 2 pair balances together Developing their own balances from pair or base positions given Creating a short sequence The pair balances resource sheet includes balances that are differentiated by colour. Easiest to hardest: Green, Yellow, Red, Purple I would only suggest purple and red to those that are really competent gymnasts and have done some sports acro before - otherwise support would be required. If you want lesson plans for pair routines check out my SOW here! Recommendations for use: Give each group a copy of the resource and they can self differentiate Give each group a copy and give them a colour to try based on their ability Ask students to pick a balance and change one of the positions to create a new balance and show the class Get students to adapt the balances for apparatus Need other gymnastics balances? 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.

A gymnastics balances task card students can use to copy counter balance and counter tension balance. Perfect for a gymnastics lesson on balances, partner work or routines! A total of 9 different balances are included, 5 counter tension and 4 counter balance. This product is a less comprehensive version of my differentiated counter tension and counter balance task cards which includes more counter tensions and balances to copy from which are arranged by difficulty. Need other gymnastics balances? Click here Please email me on pickupandgoresources@gmail.com if you would like a custom gymnastics product.

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 SOW / set of 6 lesson plans for hockey covering the following skills: Dribbling Push and slap passing Block tackling Individual attacking skills (push and run, roll out, v drag, drag left and right, lift) Penalty/short corners Game play Click here to see lesson 1 for FREE This SOW was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no hockey experience can teach it just as well as those with lots. You should be able to teach a lesson with minimal preparation and I made these so in most cases they can be just picked up and taught. There is an assesssment matrix included and all lessons have levelled outcomes. The levels are the old national curriculum levels 3-8 however they are easily editable and changeable to your own assessment levels. Each lesson has diagrams, assessment levels, differentiation , clear teaching points, links to videos that show the skill and afl opportunities. As well as clear explanations of the tasks. There are no timings included as each school can vary in terms of lesson time. They should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above. Other products you might like - I also have individual lesson plans and other SOWs available for hockey please click here to see them. If you have an requests for custom products and have any comments about the product here please email me at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com

4 Stations/task cards for individual gymnastics balances. Useful in a lesson on balance or routines and great for independent work.There is a standing balances station, a kneeling and sitting balances station, a inverted balances station and a support balances station. There are enough balances on each station card to cater to complete beginners and for experienced gymnasts. Colour and black and white versions included (to save on ink). Recommendations for use: Set up 4 different stations around the room and give students set times on each station then move them on (think circuit) Split the group into 4 and give each group a station card - swap them over as needed Place the balances in a central position and get students to pick on balance from each station that they should link together into a short sequence Give to a non doer for them to see if their peers are accurately replicating the balances Need other gymnastics balances? 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

Multi skills agility resources, PLT: independent enquirers: get them to set up the stations and demonstrate themselves

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)

A lesson on translations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skills include translating a shape when given worded instructions, translating a shape using vectors and describing the transformation. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Translate given shapes on a square grid/coordinate grid Gold:Use vector notation for translations Red:Describe fully a translation This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach translations, 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) [Free Translations treasure hunt available here](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/translations-treasure-hunt-11809584 Additional translations worksheets available here

A lesson on reflections for use in a secondary transformations unit(whoe unit available here). Power point and work booklet for teaching reflections are included. Skills covered are reflecting a shape in a line on a square grid, reflecting a shape across a straight line on a coordinate grid, describing the reflection. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Reflect given shapes on a grid. Gold:Reflect given shapes on a coordinate grid using a line such as x = 2 Red:Describe fully a reflection. This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach reflections, 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) FREE reflections differentiated worksheet available here

A no frills worksheet, good for students that need lots of practice. 4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and all answers included. 80 questions in total.