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I have been a teacher for over 20 years - all the stuff I upload has been tried and tested in my classroom. I don't mind a discussion on Twitter too where I also share new resources. I now have a personal website: https://andylutwyche.com/

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I have been a teacher for over 20 years - all the stuff I upload has been tried and tested in my classroom. I don't mind a discussion on Twitter too where I also share new resources. I now have a personal website: https://andylutwyche.com/
Constructions
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Constructions

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This (hopefully) does what it says on the tin: I wanted some sheets for students to construct triangles and bisectors so produced this. The constructions all fit in the boxes provided as long as you print them out on A4 paper. We start with constructing triangles, then bisectors, then a rhombus and a perpendicular line from a given point before finishing with couple of challenges (Yin-yang, incircle and circumcircle). Like I say, it is not designed to be flashy just practical.
Types of Graph
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Types of Graph

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I did this having seen numerous poor attempts at sketches in books on recognising types of graph.
Rounding Spiders
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Rounding Spiders

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A comment from my trainee teacher made me think that rounding to decimal places and significant figures needed an activity, so I came up with this. It should get students thinking and should open up discussion on rounding, which can be a little "dry" but essential to get to grips with. Typo corrected!
Inequalities Spiders
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Inequalities Spiders

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This is designed to make students think about representing inequalities on a number line, listing integers (directly and having simplified) and regions. They are split this way to allow you to start/stop wherever you feel your class needs to. The number lines and graphs are as big as I can make them!
Properties of Shapes Matching
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Properties of Shapes Matching

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All triangles and quarilaterals plus a regular polygon slide with 8 statements that students must decide whether they are always, sometimes or never true. This should create discussion. I have said that squares are a type of rectangle, and a rhombus is a type of parallelogram.
Transforming Functions Spiders
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Transforming Functions Spiders

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Four spiders, two with curve and two involving trigonometric functions. These are designed to be used as starters or plenaries but they also work as consolidation activities.
Average and Range Spiders
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Average and Range Spiders

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This should bring about plenty of discussion. Four "spiders" of increasing difficulty asking students to complete a list of numbers to make the average and range properties true. A couple of typos corrected.
Building Blocks - Graphing Functions
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Building Blocks - Graphing Functions

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This leads students through graphing trigonometric functions, transforming f(x) and transforming a trigonometric function. The graphs are as big as I can make them in the format given so sorry if they are a bit small. I used Desmos for the graphs if you are interested (it’s brilliant!).
Functions Spiders
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Functions Spiders

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Practice on the function notation (new to GCSE!) involving substituting into a function and finding the value of x given what f(x) equals. This also involves composite functions. This should hopefully encourage your class to talk about their answers and understanding of the topic. Now includes an extra "find the inverse" slide!
Manipulating Expressions and Formulae
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Manipulating Expressions and Formulae

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This is designed to get students to think about algebra and substitution as well as knowing properties of number. This is looking at what you can substitute into an expression or a formula (so that rearranging is involved) to produce a given property. This is intended to create discussion and each question has multiple answers, some of which could be generalised therefore creating extra challenge for those who require it.
Sporting Bounds
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Sporting Bounds

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This came about after a colleague of mine (a Spurs fan) was moaning about a VAR decision that prevented Spurs from winning a Champions League match. Another colleague (a Brighton fan this time) suggested we check the errors in measurement and this was born. It is a bit of an experiment and I am aware that error is built in to the systems but I thought it was a nice practical use of something we cover in GCSE Maths. There are four scenarios: one tennis, two cricket and one football; questions are quite wordy but need to be to explain the laws of the sports in question.
Surds Spiders
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Surds Spiders

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These spiders (there are seven of them in total) take you through simplifying, calculating, rationalising denominators, expanding brackets and rationalising "tough" surds.
Bidmas Spiders
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Bidmas Spiders

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I needed something for my top set Year 8 to get their teeth into regarding "order of operations" and since I'm clearly into spiders at the moment this was born. It asks student to place operations and brackets into calculations to make them equal a certain total. There are 4 that get increasingly difficult (no indices involved) and then a challenge (with indices involved). There will also be more than one way to answer some, but I have provided an answer for each.
Number Facts - G to C
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Number Facts - G to C

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Tutorial with questions taking you through primes, multiples, writing and reading numbers, directed numbers (negative numbers), prime factors, HCF and LCM.
The Data Games
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The Data Games

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A student gave me the title (pun on 'The Hunger Games' - original was 'The Number Games'), I did the rest. Five different sets of questions in a functional style for students to work through either individually or in pairs/teams.
Indices Spiders
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Indices Spiders

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Fill in the blanks to simplify using the rules of indices. This should create some discussion in class regarding negative indices and how they could be written.
Expanding Brackets Spiders
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Expanding Brackets Spiders

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This takes students through expanding a single bracket, factorising a single bracket, expanding two brackets and factorising quadratic expressions. Hopefully this should lead them in manageable steps to factorising quadratics, including a few with the coefficient of x squared being greater than 1. When I find errors I have corrected them...