Introduce students to the essential concepts of budgeting, saving, and managing money with this interactive and practical resource. Designed to simulate real-world financial decisions, it helps students understand the importance of living within their means and planning for the future. Key Features: Percentage-based budgeting: Teaches students the 50-30-20 rule for allocating income effectively. The Budget Game: A dice-based activity where students navigate monthly expenses, income, and unexpected costs to balance their budget. Real-world salary insights: Includes quizzes and activities on average salaries and the cost of living in various professions. Mathematical applications: Encourages calculations of percentages, averages, and savings rates, fostering numeracy skills. Discussion and reflection: Prompts students to consider advantages and drawbacks of financial strategies and analyze their outcomes in a report. Usage: Perfect for maths or life skills classes in secondary schools, this resource combines practical mathematics with financial literacy, preparing students for adulthood. Format: Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, complete with instructions, quizzes, and interactive activities.

Engage your students with this 10-session starter series that introduces the fundamentals of accounting through a fun and interactive trading game. Students simulate being accountants by buying and selling goods to maximize profit while maintaining accurate financial records. Key Features: Real-world learning: Students learn to manage profit and loss accounts, inventory records, and create financial summaries. **Decision-making and strategy: **Encourages thoughtful planning, with opportunities to explore investment strategies and risk management. Adaptable levels of complexity: Tailor the game to your class by making it as simple or detailed as required. Gamified learning: Students compete to grow their businesses and maintain perfect accounts, with the possibility of integrating “black market” scenarios to discuss ethical decision-making. Skills developed: Emphasizes attention to detail, organization, and mathematical calculations. Usage: Ideal for secondary school maths lessons, cross-curricular activities with economics or business studies, or as an enrichment tool. Can be played individually or in groups. Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, complete with instructions, examples, and templates for student activities.

Help your students develop essential research and analytical skills with this structured series on writing research papers. Designed for classroom use, this resource takes students step-by-step through the process of conducting research, analyzing data, and presenting findings in a clear and engaging manner. Key Features: Comprehensive guidance: Covers all stages of research paper creation, from choosing a topic to drawing conclusions. Interactive and collaborative: Includes opportunities for class-wide topic selection, group discussions, and collaborative data collection. Skill-building focus: Teaches hypothesis development, data collection, and critical analysis. Data visualization: Encourages students to present results using graphs, charts, and infographics. Templates and examples: Provides ready-to-use templates and examples for planning, data collection, and summarization. Usage: Ideal for secondary or early tertiary-level students in subjects like English, Social Studies, or Science. Great for teaching research methodology and academic writing fundamentals. Format: Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with instructions, activity sheets, and links to additional resources.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 7 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 7 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 7 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 7 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Much of this lesson references the idea of thinking about division in terms of multiplication. As such, the lesson starts with an exercise designed to provide students with a complete set of multiplication grids. You will need to print slide 1 for students and hand them to them on the way in to lessons. The answers are on slide 2. Then follows a true or false exercise designed to refresher students understanding of division. Do this using thumbs up or thumbs down across the room (They can always do in the middle if they aren’t sure). The next activity gets students to think of division in terms of worded sentences e.g. How many 5’s are there in 15? followed by a look at fact families. This is to get students to remember and understand the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. Similar to the other arithmetic lessons, there are then mental and written methods of division. The mental methods of division are a series of divisibility tests and what to look for to see if a number will divide to give an integer answer. Provide students with a copy of the green grid on slide 7 and fill in the rules as they go along. It’s fun to do the number sort activities at the board with some board pens. When they have all the rules, they should attempt to complete the orange grid on slide 13. Bonus points for any students who can recognize that all the divisions can be completed but some will give a decimal answer. To lead in to the written division techniques, first is a reminder of some of the literacy such as dividend, quotient and divisor and a visual demonstration of how division works as a method of grouping. There is then an “I do, you do” section to teach bus stop method. Most students should have seen this before. There is then a differentiated challenge. Students should challenge themselves to get as far as they can. The next section is about dividing decimals including giving decimal answers, dividing a decimal by an integer and giving recurring decimal answers and some practice on these skills. A trickier extension is to ask students to explain how to divide by a decimal. This slide includes a visual explanation of why it works and some practice. Lastly, there is some problem solving questions and a division dot to dot. Students will need a copy of slide 28 and 29. Students should start at an underlined question. They then need to join the question number to it’s answer. The answer then becomes the next question number until they reach a dead end. They should then start at the next underlined number. Activities included: Timetable grid starter Division True or False Division as a sentence Mental Divisibility tests Division Literacy Written division explanation & practice Mixed decimal division Dividing by a decimal Problem Solving Division Dot to Dot

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 8 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 7 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.

Topic Intro designed to introduce Year 7 students to careers and real life uses of maths plus its place in their learning journey and other skills that they will be building on.