An interactive noughts and crosses game with questions to test understanding. There are 4 multiple choice answers which offer an opportunity for discussion. An ideal resource to use as a starter. The questions could easily be altered to change the difficulty level. Example There are 5 pots of pens. Each pot has 4 pens. Can I share the pens between 8 pots equally? If yes, how many pens will be in each pot?

An interactive noughts and crosses game with questions to test understanding. There are 4 multiple choice answers which offer an opportunity for discussion. An ideal resource to use as a starter. The questions could easily be altered to change the difficulty level. Example Which of the following is the odd one out? 0.35 7/20 35%

This POWERPOINT is fully animated with colourful graphics and sound. Some activities are interactive. There are 12 puzzles, activities with a Christmas Theme. One a day for 12 days. Suitable for years 5/6/7. Try out taster here. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/12-days-of-christmas-maths-taster-11348715 Sorting Snowballs,(squares, multiples of 3 and factors of 35) Christmas Snap (TU x TU) (Doubling and halving) Christmas Cards (Area) Choosing Chimneys (Arrangements) Broken Baubles (Multiples of 9) Weighing Presents(Ordering gms and Kgs) Reindeer Sorting(Logic) Christmas Tree Sorting( mm, cm, m) Christmas Tree Sequences Snowball fun( Rectangle numbers) Giving Presents(investigating patterns) Christmas snap 2(Squares and Square roots)

There are 10 animated slides which have frogs, lizards, bats or spiders going into the cauldron. Students have to calculate the total number of legs on each slide. From this one Power point you can make many more tests. Just delete or add spell ingredients and save your new file. The emphasis is on 2, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.

This fun game is to be used on an interactive board with 2 students competing to get the most correct. The properties of a quadrilateral are given and the student has to identify the correct one from 6 choices.. They have 10 or 5 seconds to answer depending on the version chosen. This can be used as a starter or plenary. The latest review for this resource on another site - "Excellent product".

This colourful cross curricular quiz enables groups of students to work in teams. The 5 rounds explore the Viking era, weighing of metals, writing, Viking ships, and a Viking journey. Mathematics has been used in all aspects of this quiz. Codes, vectors, ordering years, and calculations. A link to the BBC website adds further interest in order to solve one of the problems (approx 3 mins). There is an accompanying answer sheet for teams to use. This quiz could be used as a stand alone quiz or as part of a topic. NB The score slide has been updated to allow keyboard entry. An animation help slide for vectors has been added 12.04.17

A fun animated Power point that involves two children competing, pushing pumpkins and bobbing for apples. The distances are in metres and the weights are in grams. Pupils have to calculate the mean, median and range and use these statistics to decide the winner. Hints are available to remind pupils how to calculate each average.

Two cross curricular fun resources for History and Maths.Quiz 2 is aimed at lower KS2 and quiz 1 upper KS2. The class is divided into 6 teams who work together to solve maths problems related to the Romans. The quiz lasts about one hour.Categories include Timeline, Roman money, Roman Numerals, Roman Army, Mosaics, Roman Toilets and a Roman Walk. There is also an answer sheet to download. This activity should involve discussion around solving maths problems. It could be used as a stand alone activity or complement a history topic. These resources have been updated so that the score slide can be completed using the keyboard.

A fun animation showing dinosaurs moving through a forest. Pupils use a data collection sheet to record and find the mode and range.

A quick activity to test times table recall. Extra slides can be duplicated changing the number of Aliens on the slide.

Students compete in teams solving math problems. Animated with sound to engage learners. 1. Mending Baubles by putting correct halves together to make a multiple of 7. 2. Gifts Galore- who bought the gifts using all their money. 3. Arranging Baubles - arrange 4 colours in different ways. 4. Christmas Cards- find the length and width of envelopes with an area of 240 sq cm. 5. Word Winter Wonderland - Unravel mixed up words to reveal mathematical words.

A differentiated fun activity matching dominoes to practise division. Use as a starter or plenary. There are four squares with 16 questions in each set. The 2 sets can be interchanged. The sets need to be printed on different coloured card. This is an activity for individuals or pairs.

A fully animated Halloween maths quiz with sound. This is a quiz for teams of children working together solving problems. Order pumpkins by weight; work out how many frogs and spiders are in the cauldron; match the ghostly frames using enlargement; calculate mean, median, mode and range to compare pumpkin patches; and finally go trick or treating using factors, primes and multiples. Click the drop down pumpkin to return to the score sheet. Click the witch to move to next slide.There is now an instruction slide which I hope will clarify the quiz. Download the score sheet and print out one per team. Updated to allow score entry via keyboard.

This fully animated resource with fun monster characters invites pupils to consider a square divided into 18 triangles. Halves, thirds, sixths and ninths are displayed. The slides offer an opportunity to talk about what they see. This activity leads into 2 dice games. The first game, played in pairs, pupils take turns to roll the dice. On their turn they have to colour the correct fraction onto a copy of the square . The winner is the first to complete the whole square.The second is an open activity which challenges pupils to make up their own game for halves, fifths, quarters and tenths.

Extend pupils' vocabulary with this animated resource. There are 40 slides with interesting, carefully chosen, and some unusual words. Harmony, maximum, pamphlet, whump, ricochet, quibble, derelict, smatter, shatter, gruesome. Definitions include: "a dull thud", "break suddenly in pieces", "calm, serene, unruffled", "noisy quarrel or fight". Beware the bloodthirsty cry!

An interesting and engaging PowerPoint using maths to highlight the Chinese New Year in a quiz format. Teams of pupils collaborate to solve the problems or complete the activities. There are 5 rounds. In Chinese characters pupils have to find the mode as different characters appear on the screen such as Fate or Good Fortune. In Firework Festival fireworks last for different amounts of time and the combinations have to be found. The number of chopsticks needed for two restaurants with 2 types of table, square and rectangular.The Chinese Zodiac requires matching of years to the correct animal. Finally a magic square is used to calculate Steve Chan's lucky number. Updated so that the scores and team names can be entered via keyboard.

A lighthearted look at the causes of death based on real statistics. A starter to remind or introduce the concept of likelihood with sound and animations.

A fun end of term Power Point Quiz for teams of students to work together solving fun maths puzzles. There is a score sheet slide which can be used to record points using the keyboard.There is a separate answer sheet for recording answers. The maths used includes, division and multiplication,calculations, ordering whole numbers to 1000, identifying shapes and continuing a sequence of times tables forward and backward. Each of the 5 rounds is designed around the Christmas theme, Falling snowballs, Christmas puddings, Christmas stockings, Snowmoblies and Christmas trees. After each round the teams swap sheets to mark their answers. The slides are fully animated including sound.