LittleStreams was set up in 2014 by educators and graphic designers Rebekah Humphrey-Bullen and Samuel Lovegrove. We make high quality, affordable resources for teachers and tutors, including worksheets, games, task cards and revision flash cards.
LittleStreams was set up in 2014 by educators and graphic designers Rebekah Humphrey-Bullen and Samuel Lovegrove. We make high quality, affordable resources for teachers and tutors, including worksheets, games, task cards and revision flash cards.
This pack is filled with worksheet activities covering the topic of patterns and sequences. All worksheets are differentiated, offering supported worksheets, as well as worksheets which challenge the most able students. Answer sheets are included.
Gaps In The Sequence asks students to find the missing numbers of sequences (some linear, some following patterns such as doubling each number) and to state the term to term rule.
The Fencing In and Dinner Table Conundrum worksheets introduce the idea of geometric patterns which grow at a linear rate, giving a visual representation on linear sequences. For the more able students, this worksheet asks them to find the nth term of the given patterns.
Fishing for Sequences asks students to find numbers which appear in a given sequence. The first differentiation covers only term to term rules. The middle differentiation includes nth term examples. The most challenging differentiation asks students to state with algebraic reasoning, why a given number is not in a sequence. This checks for a true understanding of sequences.
The fifth worksheet is all about the nth term, with a more challenging worksheet that pushes students to think about such sequences as square numbers, and fraction sequences. The sixth worksheet continues the nth term exploration, starting with students identifying whether a given sequences is linear, and stating whether a given number is in a sequence.
The seventh worksheet, Function Machines, asks students to find the given rule for some numbers. And finally, worksheet eight offers a unique challenge for uniquely able students. This worksheet introduces students to the proper mathematical notation for linear sequences, including the formula for finding any term in a sequence.
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These 30 follow me cards are a great way to revise mean, median and mode. Play is similar to dominoes, where the cards are placed end to end with the question to the answers, but each question only has one answer. Students connect the questions and answers together forming a chain, with questions steadily getting harder.
Some ideas for how to use follow me cards:
-Have a treasure hunt, around the classroom or outside. Students start with the starter card and record the solutions in the table.
-Students each take ownership of a card, and then get themselves in line correctly with the answers. If there are more than 30 students, assign some students as ‘managers’. If there are less than 30 students, the first students to connect their cards can be given the remaining cards.
- Cut each card in half and give the students a matching activity. They can then glue the answers into their books.
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This activity offers a different way to teach tally and bar graphs. Students choose 20 firework cards from the firework deck (or any amount you choose from the 45 cards). We find that 20 cards offers the most interesting collection to work with.
Students are invited to collect the data of their chosen cards and write it on the tally sheet. Finally, the students will then plot it on a bar graph.
The nature of this activity means that each student should, in theory, produce their own tally and bar graph, unique from other students in the class.
We have also differentiated versions of the worksheets themselves for those who need a little help with matching the fireworks to the value they need to tally.
This is the UK version with UK spellings. For the US version, with US spellings, please click here.
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This factors 4-piece puzzle is a fun way to test students knowledge of factors, prime factors and types of number. Students match the number to it’s factors, prime factors and number types.
It is designed to be easily cut with little wastage. So either the teacher or tutor can prepare the cards by cutting them before hand, or students can cut their own cards, giving them a chance to see the solutions before they attempt the puzzle.
Although this product is made in colour, it prints perfectly well in black and white. Each puzzle is the size of an A4 sheet. To use less paper, select the pages per sheet option, and the puzzles will be smaller, but still high quality.
See our other times tables matching activities or get the complete bundle here:
Two’s Five’s and Ten’s
Three’s Six’s and Nine’s
Four’s Eights and Eleven’s
Seven’s and Twelves
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This is a fantastically simple game that really reduces the effort of preparation a teacher, tutor or parent needs to put into teaching how to tell time from an analog clock face. As a card is drawn from the shuffled deck, players have to check their cards to see if they can get as close as possible to that time.
The cards feature differentiated clock faces in different colours. Red whole hour cards, orange half hour cards, yellow quarter-to and quarter-past cards, green five minute denomination cards, and blue single minute denomination cards.
You can include or omit whichever cards you wish for the game to work. We have included all time denominations of a 12 hour clock up to the quarter denominations. 5 minute and single minute cards feature a selection of 24 cards each. There is even a page of blank clock faces to draw your own hands if you wish.
This game is part of a Bundle at a discount price.
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This 26-page pack of differentiated worksheets is creatively put together to make the activities interesting and visually engaging.
- Identification of acute, obtuse, reflex and right angles.
- Measuring angle, with three levels of difficulty.
- Pictures on which students measure angles, encourages students to measure angles that don't necessarily have a horizontal base.
- Summary test, followed by a confidence checklist sheet.
- All answer keys are included where relevant.
- Despite being in colour, all worksheets have been tested to print great in black and white.
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This activity offers a different way to teach tally and pictographs. Students choose 20 sweet cards from the sweet deck (or any amount you choose from the 45 cards). We recommend that 20 cards offers the most interesting collection to work with.
Students are invited to collect the data of their chosen cards and write it on the tally sheet. Finally, the students will then plot it on a pictograph. Three pictograph sheets are included, one that has a key of one image = one sweet, one of one image = 2 sweets, and a final one where students can input their own ratio of image to sweets.
The nature of this activity means that each student should, in theory, produce their own tally and bar graph, unique from other students in the class.
We have also included differentiated versions of the worksheets themselves for those who need a little help with matching the sweets colours to the name.
This is the UK version of this activity. For the US version, where the word sweet has been replaced with candy, please click here.
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These 30 follow me cards are a great way to revise finding percentage of amounts including increasing and decreasing a number by a given percent. There are two possible starting points, allowing for great differentiation.
Play is similar to dominoes, where the cards are placed end to end with the question to the answers, but each question only has one answer.
Students connect the questions and answers together forming a chain, with questions steadily getting harder. For extra challenge, don’t use a calculator.
Some ideas for how to use follow me cards:
-Have students race to connect the cards.
-Have a treasure hunt, around the classroom or outside. Students start with the starter card and record the solutions in the table.
-Students each take ownership of a card, and then get themselves in line correctly with the answers. If there are more than 30 students, assign some students as ‘managers’. If there are less than 30 students, the first students to connect their cards can be given the remaining cards.
- Cut each card in half and give the students a matching activity. They can then glue the answers into their books.
You can get this as part of the bundle at a discount:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/fraction-and-percentage-follow-me-card-bundle-12129689.
This extensive bundle includes 5 packs on fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios. Each pack contains 10 individual worksheets all differentiated 3 ways. Giving a total of 50 unique activities and 150 worksheets. An answer key is also included, as a separate file, meaning you can email the worksheets out to your students.
It includes the following packs:
Introducing Fractions and Decimals
Equivalent Fractions and Percentages
Fraction and Decimal Sums
Fraction and Percentages of Amounts
Introducing Ratio
A bonus topic test and confidence checklist for free with the bundle.
Worksheet activities includes mazes, word problems, shading, word links, solve the clue, and linking questions.
The first pack introduces students to the concept of fractions and decimals. It covers topics including finding and shading fractions of circles as well as objects, placing fractions and decimals on a number line and comparing the sizes of fractions and decimals.
The second pack covers equivalent fractions and percentages. It introduces equivalent fractions using the bar model and fraction circles, converting between decimals and percentages, writing tenths as decimals, converting common fractions to decimals and percentages, and word problems involving equivalent fractions.
The third pack covers adding fractions and decimals. It begins with adding fractions where the denominators are the same and where one denominator is a multiple of the other. It also includes word problems involving both decimals and percentages.
The forth pack includes finding fractions and percentages of amounts. It begins by looking at unit fractions, then introducing the concept of finding, for example, 3/5 of 40. It also covers finding 10%, 50%, 25%, 20% and 5% of a number. Word questions are also included.
The fifth pack introduces ratios. It covers writing ratios of given objects, sharing an amount in a given ratio, converting between ratio and fractions and word problems involving ratio and proportions.
Included is a bonus final test covering all the topics in the pack and a confidence checklist.
This is a card game for learning Factors and Multiples. Students take turns to play a factor card from their hand into a multiple card that is in play. Once a factor has been played on a particular card, no other player can play it again.
There are exactly the correct amount of factor cards to match the multiple cards (except for itself and 1), so you could also play this as a simple matching game. I often do with my students; though be warned that it takes up the whole room.
The pack contains a full set of rules and a cheat sheet to show which multiples go with what factors. The cards are also super easy to cut out thanks to easy-cut guides.
This game is available in CARD GAME BUNDLE 2 with 4 other card games at a discount.
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This matching puzzle bundle contains 3D Shapes, Telling Time, Fractions Decimals Percentages, Equivalent Fractions and Graphs & Charts. They are a great fun way to revise key topics.
Buy now and get 5 matching activities for the price of 3.
Included in this bundle are
• Fractions, Decimals & Percentages Matching Puzzle
• Equivalent Fractions Matching Puzzle
• Telling the Time Matching Puzzle
• Graphs and Charts Matching Puzzle
• 3D Shapes Properties Matching Puzzle
This times tables 4-piece puzzle is a fun way to test students knowledge of the two, five and ten times tables. Students match the times table question to the solution, array and collection of grouped objects.
It is designed to be easily cut with little wastage. So either the teacher or tutor can prepare the cards by cutting them before hand, or students can cut their own cards, giving them a chance to see the solutions before they attempt the puzzle.
Although this product is made in colour, it prints perfectly well in black and white. Each puzzle is the size of an sheet. To use less paper, select the pages per sheet option, and the puzzles will be smaller, but still high quality.
All other times tables are available as further packs, or you can buy the complete bundle.
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This Times Tables card game is a fun way for students to practice their tables while playing a game. Chose 4 times tables to play. Included are all the tables from the 2’s to the 12’s. Shuffle the cards and then deal all the cards to all the players. The player with the 7th card of the highest times tables plays this card first.
For example, if we were playing with the 2 times tables, the 5 times tables, the 10 times tables and the 11 times tables, then the highest times tables we are playing with is the 11’s, so the player who has the card 77 in the eleven times tables suit (11x7) plays this card first.
Players then take it in turns to play the next in the sequence, either up or down, or play another starting card, which is 7 times what ever table the suit is. These starter cards have a double boarder to make them stand out.
A full set of rules are included as well as easy-cut guides to make the preparation of the game fast and simple.
The game is played similar to the classic card game sevens/parliament, but with times tables.
This game is available in CARD GAME BUNDLE 2 with 4 other card games at a discount.
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This is the bundle of our times tables matching puzzles. It includes all the times tables up to and including the twelves, and a factors matching activity.
These times tables 4-piece puzzle is a fun way to test students knowledge of the tables. Students match the times table question to the solution, array and collection of grouped objects.
Individual Times Tables Products are as follows:
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Two’s Five’s and Ten’s
Three’s Six’s and Nine’s
Four’s Eights and Eleven’s
Seven’s and Twelves
It is designed to be easily cut with little wastage. So either the teacher or tutor can prepare the cards by cutting them before hand, or students can cut their own cards, giving them a chance to see the solutions before they attempt the puzzle.
Although this product is made in colour, it prints perfectly well in black and white. Each puzzle is the size of an A4 sheet. To use less paper, select the pages per sheet option, and the puzzles will be smaller, but still high quality.
UPDATED for 2022:
Redesign of cards to make them easier to use
Included Record Sheet
This game gets students to find the area of various shapes, including rectangles, triangles, compound shapes and parallelograms.
Players are dealt a set number of cards and are encouraged to find the area of the shapes on their cards. Some shapes such as the area of compound shapes require students to find missing sides by adding or subtracting known sides.
A base card is then turned over. Students all play a card from their hands which is closest in area to the base card. The player who was closest to the base cards wins all the cards played and puts them in a separate pile. These are their points. After a set number of rounds, the player with the most points wins.
Each group of cards are coloured so you can remove certain questions you have not taught yet, or to differentiate questions for your class.
-Rectangles are Green
-Triangles are Yellow
-Compound Shapes involving Rectangles are Red
-Parallelograms are Blue
-Compound Shapes involving Triangles are Grey.
Full rules of play and answer key for all cards are provided in the pack itself. The cards are also printed with easy-cut guides to make preparation fast and simple.
This is included in Card Game Bundle 1
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This pack includes 10 unique worksheets that introduce ratios. Each worksheet is then differentiated 3 ways to ensure support and challenge.
Your download includes two versions of this pack, the UK version with £, and the US version with $. If you require any other currency or versions, please feel free to contact us at Contact@LittleStreams.co.uk.
The pack contains the following activities:
Worksheet 1 Ratio Images
Worksheet 2 Ratio Blocks
Worksheet 3 Equivalent Ratios
Worksheet 4 Ratio Word Link
Worksheet 5 Ratio of Shapes
Worksheet 6 Proportion Word Problems
Worksheet 7 Sharing Amounts
Worksheet 8 Ratio of Amount Secret Code
Worksheet 9 Ratio Word Problems
Worksheet 10 Ratios and Fractions
The first worksheet introduces the idea of writing ratios of groups of objects. Worksheet 2 then extends this using grids of shaded squares and introduces the concept of simplifying ratios. The third worksheet asks students to match equivalent ratios; differentiations 1 & 2 include a hint on how to simplify ratios. The fourth worksheet is a letter link activity on simplifying ratios. When students link equivalent ratios, they draw through letters that spell out the name of a famous mathematician.
The 5th worksheet looks at different shapes, both 2D and 3D shapes, and asks students to find the ratio of these shapes. Worksheet 6 introduces the idea of proportion. It consists of word problems of objects in proportion of each other.
Worksheet 7 covers sharing amounts of money in a given ratio. Differentiation 1 includes a guide of how to share money in a given ratio.
Worksheet 8 is another activity in sharing money given a ratio, this time to solve a clue puzzle that reveals an interesting fact. Differentiation 1 includes a guide on converting between ratios and fractions. Worksheet 9 consists of word questions on ratios. Differentiations 1 and 2 includes an information section on sharing amounts in a given ratio. The final worksheet covers converting between ratios and fractions.
This pack is also available as part of our introducing Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Bundle which you can get here.
A 48-page creatively designed worksheet pack on Straight Line Graphs which includes:
• An introductory activity to check that students have the skills required to access this topic. This includes the substitution of values into a linear equation and then plotting the x and y value coordinates onto a graph.
• An investigation sheet, on which students will discover how the value of m and c in the equation y=mx+c affects the line graph.
• An activity where students will draw linear graphs from equations, and find equations from graphs.
• A cut and match activity where students can visually connect equations with real life scenarios.
• Challenge questions where students find gradients and y-intercepts when equations are not in the form y=mx+c, and the identificaion of parallel lines from equations only.
• A confidence checklist for students to assess whether they have grasped what they have learned in this pack.
A US version of this product is available in our US store here where notation is in US form (y=mx+b)
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This pack contains a good selection of graphically aided clock faces and cut-out hands for use with the teaching of clock face reading.
They are differentiated for multiples areas of struggle, from the concepts of 'past' and 'to', to the concept of Roman Numerals.
Available as part of a Telling the Time Bundle at a discount price which includes extra blank worksheets
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This pack contains a set of 24 questions on Mixed Math Word Problems, including Algebra, Geometry, Number and Statistics subject areas. They are designed completely from scratch with simplicity, professionalism and concentration in mind. These questions are designed to be little maths puzzles that explore some deeper thoughts of numbers etc.
Including a total of 96 task cards, this pack consists of 24 unique questions which have been differentiated in four ways. The easiest questions are Red, followed by Yellow, then Green and finally Challenge.
What makes this pack so unique is that is consists of questions from a mixture of topics within mathematics, making it a great exploration task or starter to a lesson.
Full answers are included, as is a student answer sheet for them to record their answers.
These also make great starter questions, and offer opportunities for classroom discussions.
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