This is a series of 6 pages that can be printed as an A3 folded booklet for teaching students how to work out bearings. The first page provides a starter which revisits key angle facts based on parallel lines and a transversal, and based on angles on a straight line, at a point and in a triangle. The second page presents the key learning objectives and a section in which notes can be written. This is followed by a simple Task 1 of using bearings diagrams to work out the bearings of one point from another point using angle calculations, rather than scale drawing. Task 2 then requires students to draw diagrams first based on the information provided, and then to work out the required bearing. The lesson sits comfortable in an hour lesson with time for a plenary.

This resource is accompanied by an answer document. It is aimed at students who have been taught to understand vector geometry and vector analysis. Students are required to work with column vectors and vectors expressed using letter notation, to understand parallel and perpendicular vectors, to calculate lengths and angles between vectors, to express unit vectors, and to apply an understanding of vectors within a range of geometric contexts. A grading system based on the new GCSE specification is suggested, but this resource would be equally useful in the US. The paper can be printed onto a single A3 folded sheet and there are a total of 60 marks. It can be used as a homework or a revision resource, or to assess general understanding at the end of the topic with plenty of extension and differentiated content available.

This is a comprehensive Maths Department Handbook proforma containing 66 pages that can be easily adapted for the needs of any secondary Maths department. It has been reviewed as part of my school's external inspection process and was cited as exemplary. I hope you find it useful. Obviously many sections, such as assessment, homework, behavioural policy, available resources, are specific to my school, and would need some amendment. Other sections, such as G&T policies, Calculation policy, Literacy policy, Use of ICT and Calculators, use of learning support etc should provide a good foundation for departments to personalise. It includes descriptors for the new GCSE specification 9 -1 grades.

A variety of worksheets covering the four operations with integers and decimals, collecting terms and solving equations (including equations with quotients), angle calculations, measure, basic coordinate geometry, perimeter, area and volume, circles, and equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.

A range of assignments, each with 60 marks and easily written on, covering a variety of Geometry, Number, Algebra and Statistics topics; these assignments focus on a key topic and provide problems of increasing difficulty and a wide range of applied contexts. The topics covered are; Angles, Coordinate geometry and Straight Lines, Indices and Standard Form and Surds, Inequalities, Proportions and Proportionate change, Quadratic Equations, Simultaneous Equations, Pythagoras and Trigonometry and Transforming Functions. They are aimed to provide students with examination-style questions to develop and challenge understanding. Full answers are provided.

A range of assignments, each with 60 marks and easily written on, covering a variety of Geometry, Number, Algebra and Statistics topics; these assignments focus on a key topic and provide problems of increasing difficulty and a wide range of applied contexts. The topics covered are; Algebraic expressions, Average and spread, Decimals (including rounding), Equivalent fractions decimals and percentages, Factors multiples and primes, Fractions and the four operations, Perimeter area and volume, Probability, Transformations and Solving linear equations. They are aimed to provide students with examination-style questions to develop and challenge understanding. Full answers are provided.

These documents provide detailed teaching pedagogy for the majority Number and Algebra topics taught to ages 11 to 16. They specify key learning objectives, and explain how to develop 'first principle' understanding by ensuring all techniques and methods follow a consistent explanation. Division, as an example, can be applied with absolute consistency to all areas of Pure Mathematics; avoiding tricks and teaching a pure understanding of the meaning of "divide by" as opposed to "divide into" and the need to ensure terms have the same denomination is paramount to securing long term understanding.

These documents provide detailed teaching pedagogy for Shape, Space and Measure topics taught from ages 11 to 16. They provide learning objectives and explanations of how to approach topics from first principles to secure long term understanding, and to avoid teaching tricks! Area, for example, is commonly associated with length times width, without developing a pure understanding of what area actually means.

This booklet comprises 55 pages of information and support; each page focuses on a different Maths topic area and it provides the means for students to independently research when they need support. The majority of topics studied up to age 16 are included. They provide a summary of each chapter of the learning plans that I have also written for Number and Algebra, Statistics and Geometry.