<p>An extremely flexible and customiseable report writer / feedback generator, which has personally saved me a great deal of time in writing end-of-year reports. A large selection of downloadable comment bank files are available, covering a growing range of subjects and age groups. Life-saver during that ‘special time of year’. The comment bank could easily be adapted to use as a marking / feedback tool for exercise books or any other assessments. (This is a web app - follow the link in the “WEB-LINK” file or click on the link in the “information” document).</p>

<p>Revision activity on Reading Scales and Converting Units of measure. Differentiated from Level 3 to 5 tasks, including ‘checking understanding&amp;’ levelled SAT questions. Starter activity for sorting units into groups and talking about relationship between units.</p>

<p>The classic &quot;Ten for Ten&quot; style revision booklet fully re-made for the New KS2 Mathematics Curriculum. Three differentiated versions for lower ability, expected standard and exceeding / greater depth. Answers packs included. Pupils do 10 minutes work each weekday during their Easter break to keep their skills on the boil - 5 arithmetic questions &amp; 4/5 reasoning questions each day. Just print as an A5 booklet and off you go…</p>

<p>A lesson involving drawing a ‘distance (from home) / time’ graph of the hare and the tortoise cartoon (see link - if you have problems, just search for ‘silly symphony - hare and the tortoise&amp;’) Also includes card matching activity (with optional differentiated version with missing graphs). (This part not made by me).</p> <p>RE ‘displacement’ comments: Exam boards use ‘distance from home’ to get around this. I have adjusted the resource accordingly (where possible).</p>

<p>Two engaging activities to demonstrate and investigate inverse proportion in real life situations. Includes starters etc. There is a lesson plan, a PowerPoint and handout. There is plenty of differentiation included but it is mostly for middle / top sets (Yr9 / 10)</p>

Differentiated lesson going from basic concepts to problem solving and SAT questions. (groups on the whiteboard file refer to the ability tables I have in my class - more sides = higher ability) I have this on the board whilst they work so they can progress from whatever starting point they come in at ('Teacher's Toolkit': upwardly mobile) <p>See <strong>lttmaths.com </strong>for further ideas and resources about teaching mathematics.</p>

<strong>lttmaths.com</strong> Top Trump cards depicting superheroes - their statistics correlate (e.g: height / weight or fame / salary etc.) and can be used to plot scatter graphs. I have used these by giving each pupil a hero card, then done a human scatter graph. They then created their own hero card (making sure their statistics fit the correlations shown on the graph sheets). They could also be used for calculating averages, sampling techniques..... and playing top trumps! N.B - original spreadsheet from another TES user.

<p>A series of activities using games to discuss and explore ideas about probability and combinations. Goes from probability scales to possibility space diagrams. You will need the Standards Unit - horse racing activity (search on Google - Mr Barton Maths has a link) - if you haven’t seen these activities they are an excellent resource for lots of areas of maths, have a look!</p>

Introduction to manipulating bar charts and pie charts in Microsoft Excel. Includes problem solving tasks with self-assessment 'I can' statements at each step of the lesson. Final activity can be extended to a written task (you could get pupils to produce a holiday brochure etc.) The starter is an activity from a fine TES resource contributor (can&'t remember his name - search for &';GOLD RUSH' as he has many more like this).

A practical support to gaining a concrete understanding fractions and how they work. The whiteboard file (Promethean only I'm afraid) allows teacher / pupils whole class discussion. The pupil cards (classroom assistant needed! Different colour card for each fraction is best) for pupils (1 set for one / two pupils). Work-cards allow for some independence (if you want). Also included is a link to the fractions ITP - different representations of fractions help a great deal.

A full lesson on simplifying and dividing into ratios - drag and drop starter to demonstrate how equivalent ratios work. Activity for dividing into ratio uses multi-link cubes (or counters etc..) as a practical resource to physically share out the numbers into different ratios. Questions include angles and money. Includes investigation on colouring grids in certain ratios - which will work, which will not and why

<p>Generate as many different KS2 SAT Arithmetic papers as you need - all questions directly based on the 2017 SAT (difficulty and characteristics of each questions are preserved as much as possible). I’ve included 4 different practices tests and 4 “content” practice worksheets (each page focuses on one type of question) as PDFs in case you’re not an excel fan. Answers included so pupils can self-mark.<br /> We use this both in-class and as homeworks, then use the “content practice” sheets as a follow-up, asking pupils to work on specific questions they struggled with. Useful for KS2 and KS3 pupils for practicing arithmetic skills, including: four operations, fractions, decimals, percentages, BIDMAS and place value.</p>

<p>A set of activities for introducing (a growing number of) different concepts with Cuisenaire rods. This is a work in progress and a result of ongoing exploration of using this resource to teach different year groups / topics. (Have found success in using Cuisenaire in teaching: division, factors, reciprocals and number bonds, inverse operations, fractions…)<br /> See link for all Caleb Gategno books - numbers in colour. Suggested reading: Madeline Goutard - Talks for Primary School Teachers.</p>

Full lesson with lesson plan on introducing solving simultaneous equations using graphical methods - starter is a kinaesthetic activity where pupils order themselves according to the value of the expressions they are holding (answers and values to substitute are shown on the board). For the main activity they pick out graphs to find pairs of solutions to (at first by trial and error) - which later they draw and solve graphically. <p>See lttMaths.com for further ideas and resources about teaching mathematics.</p>

Two complete lessons with differentiated activities on discovering trig ratios at GCSE, including using a table of tangent ratios (before getting used to the calculator method). There is a practical activity to try as well as a problem solving activity taken from an OCR specimen paper. (The differentiation is labelled as shape groups from lowest ability to highest: triangle, square, parallelogram, trapezium, pentagon, hexagon respectively). Resources within the lessons are a mixture mixture of my own and other people's - happy to credit individuals if they let me know.

<p>Pupils record their performance from SAT papers (in the run up to the final KS2 SAT test) and then come up with 5 topic areas to improve (they also highlight RAG for each question). This is then their personal revision guidance. The teacher can input the data (see Example class analysis sheet) and differentiate class revision accordingly (precise targeting to pupil’s individual needs)</p>

<p>Active studio lesson for Two way tables. Starter uses the ‘Furbles’ website as an introduction. Main activity is a puzzle about two way tables. Suitable for lower sets.</p>

32 Loop cards / dominoes including powers, square and cube roots, etc. Great as a group activity for recap on powers, square numbers and square roots. This activity is ideal for KS3 and KS4.

<p>There are a set of rectangular ‘overlays&amp;’ here - to be printed onto acetate (pupils get a pack containing one of each overlay). They can use the overlays to divide the shapes (Questions) into different fractions and explore how equivalent fractions work.<br /> It is a really practical kinaesthetic activity which encourages pupils to discover the mathematics themselves rather than learning &amp;’;rules’ to make equivalent fractions.<br /> (It was used as a 20 minute lesson observation - I guess it worked as the gave me the job : )</p>

<p>Forming expressions for area and perimeter and simplifying to show equivalence. There is a great deal of scope for differentiation here, with two activities which take the idea further (The last one is not my own, but from a resource called ‘Materials to Support able mathematicians in KS3&amp;’) Includes application of trigonometry ratios in finding the general rule for areas of regular polygons.</p>

<p>(N.B: Now including answers!) A series of rich tasks / starting points based on the theme of diminishing areas. They could be a lesson each or just pick two or three as a progression over one lesson. Areas covered: equivalent fractions, adding fractions, powers (‘half of a half…’), pie charts (angles and percentages), and infinite sums (Challenging!) Diagrams are a mixture of my own, those from NRich and also from ‘Don Steward - Median’ See <a href="http://lttMaths.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">lttMaths.com</a> for further ideas and resources about teaching mathematics.</p>