I provide comprehensive worksheets to revise a particular topic (always with answers included) as well as extension materials, for pupils ranging from age about 11 to 16+.
All of my premium resources have a UK and US version.
I provide comprehensive worksheets to revise a particular topic (always with answers included) as well as extension materials, for pupils ranging from age about 11 to 16+.
All of my premium resources have a UK and US version.
Is every square a rectangle? Is every rectangle a square?
An investigation into the properties of the quadrilaterals, working out their properties and which ones are similar.
Includes a look into Venn Diagrams and a couple of area challenges at the end.
Notes and answers at the bottom of each slide.
Seven christmas themed questions on the following topics:
adding fractions, angles in triangles, dividing with fractions, substitution, negative numbers
A chance for pupils to have fun with some numeracy and make a Power Point presentation researching how they would spend £1000.
Includes an example (by me) and some results from a class of 15 year olds.
A bumper set of National 5 Maths resources grouped by topic.
Five sets of Questions by Topic
Four sets of Revision questions by Topic
Whole Course Topic by Topic
More Whole Course Topic by Topic
Example Questions and Answers
Covers everything in National 5:
Fractions, Percentages, Inequalities, Straight Line, Brackets, Rearranging equations, Simultaneous equations, Area and perimeter, Function notation, Arcs and sectors, Volume, Pythagoras, Similarity, Quadratics, Trigonometry
All provided with solutions
This is a thought provoking activity about how many variables are needed to describe a shape.
For example, if you don’t care about size, rotation or position all squares are the same.
To define size, one variable is needed.
To define rotation, one variable is needed.
To define position in the 2D plane, two variables are needed.
So to fully define any square requires four variables.
There are many possible different choices for these four.
(Updated 2023)
A treasure hunt to revise Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.
Print out the A4 clues and put them on the walls. Pupils can work in pairs and start anywhere. They solve any clue (e.g. 30% of 90) then find the clue with that answer on it and carry on from there.
Answers provided.
This is a series of tricky challenges to complement usual class work, using a full range of maths skills:
- trigonometry
- simultaneous equations
- algebra
- fractions
- area
- logic
Can be used as extensions or homework.
Full solutions included.
This is a 2-page write on worksheet that tests these basic skills:
- Lines of symmetry
- Names of 2D shapes
- 2D shapes that can be convex and non-convex
Pupils can write directly on the sheet.
Full solutions included.
A Powerpoint / PDF giving the Indices Rules with some examples - I have printed these two-sided and laminated these for lots of pupils
Also a few practice questions on Surds and Indices to diagnose what they need to practice.
A page of questions on the following
substitution
expanding brackets
inequalities
forming and solving equations
Solutions included
Edit: added a Powerpoint of similar questions
Edit: added a further dense page of questions
This is to introduce pupils to decimals, using a context they are probably already familiar with (the time to run the 100 metres). Pupils work in pairs to complete some exercises looking up times, then get familiar with a stopwatch, then compare some decimal times.
A series of eight small sets of printable questions, each followed by an estimation question on the Powerpoint which uses the answers you have just calculated. The class work on the sets of questions individually then all attempt to estimate the final answer.
I have found this very effective as a general revision activity with pupils in teams, scoring points out of 5 for the revision questions, and also a mark out of 5 for the quality of each estimate.
The numeracy skills revised are:
1 - Rounding
2 - Perimeter and Area
3 - Angles
4 - Long Multiplication
5 - Units
6 - Decimals
7 - Big Numbers
8 - Time
Provided with answers.
Tired of your usual lesson starters? These six Power Points are on
- how old are you in seconds
- using coins
- a famous question solved by Gauss
- penguins
- pandas
- temperature in the UK and US
Pupils learn about money and get the chance to design their own coins.
Practices simple skills with money and deicmals, and gets them thinking about currencies in general with some extension questions.
This activity is inspired by the Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014.
An introduction to time. Reading the time from clocks, then difference between two times, and finally a challenge with times in the school weak.
Full solutions provided.
Four probability resources: Conditional Probability with tree diagrams, Conditional Probability with Venn diagrams, Conditional Probability with Set Notation, Deadly disease probability question
A short video explaining how to solve a conditional probability problem using tree diagrams.
A video using a Venn Diagram to determine if the events are independent, mutually exclusive, and calculate some conditional probabilities. This is done alongside calculating with a table.
Practice questions with solutions using Set Notation
A classic question on probability with a rare disease