Year 9 Mathematics - School Supplementary Work

After 42 years of teaching I was asked to put together a collection of my best resources - pages that were guaranteed to keep students engaged and learning. This collection contains 158 pages of puzzles and equations to solve, expressions to expand and simplify and quick questions to answer. The sheets are bundled into 4 page sections which is ideal for 1 hour, 4 pages a day.

Each of the 4 pages contain a variety of work from basic fractions, decimals and integers but as they progress these move more to applications taken from such things as cafe menus, bank interest rates, tax and insurance tables, engineering and other work related measurements and calculations. . What are the prices, what is the interest, what are the taxes paid, what is the insurance premium?

All the strands are covered with number, algebra, geometry, measurement and statistics. There are interesting nomograms and solids to cut out, design and make, puzzles to solve, pictures to finish, patterns and measurements to make.

A good rule I learned in teaching was to keep children busy. That only happened when you kept the work interesting and relevant. As a result I usually stuck to a formula, a series of quick questions that touched on past work. That got them settled. Then there was work around new concepts and finally an interesting puzzle or side project that helped them finish and want to come back tomorrow for more. All these pages have been used successfully in class. They work!