Resources for busy teachers of Maths and PE. In most cases you can just download, print and teach! If you would like to purchase more than one product at a time and there is not a bundle for it email me for a custom bundle to get 15% off the total price at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com
Resources for busy teachers of Maths and PE. In most cases you can just download, print and teach! If you would like to purchase more than one product at a time and there is not a bundle for it email me for a custom bundle to get 15% off the total price at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com
A more engaging way to practice rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.
With this product you are getting:
★ 3 mazes on rounding to the nearest 10
★ 3 mazes on rounding to the nearest 100
★ 3 mazes on rounding to the nearest 1000
★ 3 mazes on rounding to a mixture of the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
This bundle is perfect for you if you have students with different ability levels in the same class. Those ahead can do the mixture while the others concentrate on one specific skill.
This activity is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions!
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
A US and UK version are included.
A fun 10 card treasure hunts for a function machines lesson. Skills covered are: finding the input of a function machine by using inverse operations. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter for a lesson on solving equations or as AFL/ a plenary for a lesson on finding the input of a function machine.
Difficulties include
★ Gold (medium) - Finding the input of a function machine by using inverse operations
Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on).
Suggestions for use:
★Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!)
★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk
See here for more function machines resources, including lessons and other treasure hunts.
A fun 10 card treasure hunt for a finding angles in parallel lines lesson. Skills covered are: finding one missing angle in a set of parallel lines. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter, assessment for learning activity or a plenary in a lesson on parallel lines or angles.
Difficulties include
★ Blue (easy)finding one missing angle in a set of parallel lines
Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on).
Suggestions for use:
★Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!)
★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk
Click here for more parallel lines resources, including foldables, worksheets, lessons and tick or trash activities.
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A work sheet that gives students an opportunity to practice different types of multiplying and dividing negative numbers in isolation and then together. Perfect for a lesson on negative numbers. Guided hints at the top of the page for the less able students. Could be used as homework or classwork.
Students will get lots of practice in the following skills :
Exercise 1 - multiplying with a negative and positive number (1st number negative)
Exercise 2 - multiplying with a negative and positive number (2nd number negative)
Exercise 3 - multiplying with 2 negative numbers
Exercise 4 - mixed exercise
Exercise 5 - dividing with a negative and positive number (1st number negative)
Exercise 6 - dividing with a negative and positive number (2nd number negative)
Exercise 7 - dividing with 2 negative numbers
Exercise 8 - mixed exercise
Exercise 9 - mixed multiplication and division
Answers included
Hints at the top of each page. Each exercise includes 12 questions
Suitable for a lower ability of student as they get to practice each type of question before moving onto a mixed exercise.
Find more multiplying and dividing resources here including worksheets, lessons and mazes.
An excel workbook that has 12 of each of the following type of question:
Multiplying with: 1 negative, 2 negatives and random.
Dividing with: 1 negative, 2 negatives and random
Random mix of multiplication and division questions.
A massive time saver for teachers, you'll never have to make up your own questions again. Perfect for worksheets or powerpoints. If you press F9 all the numbers will randomise and the answers will recalculate so you have a limitless amount of questions to copy and paste!
This is a great consolidating activity for a lesson on frequency tables. Skills covered are completing frequency tables, completing grouped frequency tables with discrete data, completing grouped frequency tables with continuous data, estimating the mean and finding the median class interval. Great for end of lesson consolidation, early finishers, homework or a starter .
There are 3 different difficulties which are colour coded blue (easy), gold (medium), red (hard):
Complete a frequency table, compete grouped frequency tables with discrete data (blue), 5 questions
Complete a grouped frequency table with continuous data (using inequalities) (Gold), 4 questions 1 extension
Complete a grouped frequency table with continuous data, estimate the mean and find the median class interval
Answers included.
Differentiated worksheet on rotations, perfect for use in a transformations unit. Skills include: rotating a shape on a square grid, rotating a shape on a co-ordinate grid and describing the rotation.
Fully differentiated by colour - 3 levels of difficulty have been included:
• Blue (easy) - rotating a shape on a square grid
•Gold (medium) - rotating a shape on a coordinate grid
•Red (harder) - describing the transformation
All answers included.
Updated - Fixed question 3 as it was rotating off the grid. Fixed a couple of typos and one of the answers. Fonts updated and embedded.
If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here
If you need a rotations lesson find my Powerpoint and workbook here
Updated - Fixed a couple of typos and 2 answers
Worksheets for students to complete in class. 3 levels of difficulty have been included:
• Blue (easy) - Combine transformations
•Gold (medium) - Describe fully a reflection, translation or rotation
•Red (harder) - Combine transformations and describe the single equivalent transformation
Transformations worksheet on translations. Includes translating a shape from worded instructions, translations and vectors and describing the translation. Fully differentiated and answers included.
3 levels of difficulty have been included:
• Blue (easy) - translating a shape on a square grid
•Gold (medium) - translating a shape using vectors
•Red (harder) - describing the transformation
If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here
If you need a translations lesson find my Powerpoint and workbook here
This is a Powerpoint lesson and work booklet on combinations of transformations. Skills covered are combining transformations such as reflections, rotations, enlargements and translations, describing a reflection, translation or rotation and combining transformations and describe the single equivalent transformation .
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!).
Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue:Combine transformations
Gold:Describe fully a reflection, translation or rotation
Red:Combine transformations and describe the single equivalent transformation
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach combinations of transformations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format:
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz
• Answers to all the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)
The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade.
This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through)
A set of Treasure hunts with questions on the Order of Operations (BIDMAS/BODMAS) for students to complete in class. Skills covered include - using order of operations without brackets or indices, using it with brackets and using it with indices. Answers and student record cards included.
The 3 levels of difficulty that have been included:
★★Blue(easy):Know and use the order of operations with simple calculations (no brackets)
★Gold(medium):Use the order of operations with more complex calculations including brackets
★Red(hard):Use the order of operations with more complex calculations including brackets and indices
See here for more BIDMAS resources, including powerpoint lessons, worksheets and codebreaker activities.
Adding and subtracting negative numbers mazes. 8 mazes with full solutions are included, great for use in a lesson on negative numbers when you don’t want to use traditional worksheets. Skills include positive subtract positive, negative subtract positive, negative add positive, negative add negative, subtracting a negative and a mixture. This is a fun way for students to consolidate adding and subtracting negative numbers.
This activity is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions.
Included in this product:
1 x positive subtract positive maze
1 x negative subtract positive maze
1 x negative add positive maze
1 x negative add negative maze
1 x subtracting a negative maze
3 x mixtures of the above mazes
Recommended uses for this activity
★a revison tool for students who have complete a unit on negative numbers
★A task for quick finishers and more able students
★ A starter to check for prior learning
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
Click here for more negative number resources, including lessons worksheets and treasure hunts.
This Christmas maths code breaker uses skills learnt in solving equations with unknowns on both sides to reveal a Christmas joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice solving equations. x could be negative or positive and some questions also require students to expand a single bracket before solving. The sheet contains awesome Holiday clip art to help engage your learners at Christmas. Answers are included.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke. Great for starters or to give to early finishers.
Suggestions for use:
Give to students to do by themselves
Give for homework
Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a row each)
See here for a FREE Christmas code breaker that uses timestables skills.
If you would like more Christmas themed math activities please click here.
Excel workbook that randomises numbers to create a limitless supply of questions that can be copied and pasted into worksheets or lessons.
Includes:
-percentage of amounts for calculator and non calculator
-percentage decrease
-percentage increase
-what was the original total?
Press F9 to refresh the numbers.
A dividing decimals worksheet that is scaffolded with lots of questions of the same time for lower ability learners who need repetition.
Answers included on a separate sheet.
A set of differentiated treasure hunts. Answers included.
Please see here for a FREE version of the Blue treasure hunt.
The 3 levels of difficulty are:
• Blue (easy) - solve simultaneous equations where the coefficient of x OR y is 1. E.g.
10x + y = 4
8x + y = 25
•Gold (medium) - solve simultaneous equations where the coefficient of x OR y is a factor of the other x or y E.g.
4y + 7x = 117
2y + 2x = 40
•Red (harder) - solve simultaneous equations where x and y are random integers or decimals E.g.
4y - 3x = 34.5
6y + 5x = 56.5
Save yourself lots of time by using this worksheet that automatically works out the answer, with unlimited supply of questions on finding the radius/diameter when given the circumference.
Features:
-Print the questions off
-Refresh the questions so you get any entirely new set of questions and answers (unlimited questions!) Answers provided on the right hand side
You will need to enable Macros for this to work (there should be a yellow bar that pops up when you open a file that you can enable macros from)
See here if you need any additional help with this:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Enable-or-disable-macros-in-Office-files-12b036fd-d140-4e74-b45e-16fed1a7e5c6
Please rate and review, let me know if you want any particular types of worksheets!
Great to set students for electronic homework. They can print off the worksheet afterwards and stick it it. Questions should be entirely random (I would advise the students to refresh the questions initially).
See https://goo.gl/dDno4h test out a free version of finding the circumference.
Differentiated quiz on the following:
-Work out the area
-Work out the radius or diameter length when given the area
-Work out the area of a sector
Features:
-Hint button that shows/hides a hint
-Press a button and it will self mark and give a score out of 10
-Refresh the questions so you get any entirely new set of questions (basically unlimited questions!)
-Print the page
You will need to enable Macros for this to work (there should be a yellow bar that pops up when you open a file that you can enable macros from)
See here if you need any additional help with this:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Enable-or-disable-macros-in-Office-files-12b036fd-d140-4e74-b45e-16fed1a7e5c6
Great to set students for electronic homework, or for assessment use on a computer. They can print off the worksheet afterwards and stick it it. Questions should be entirely random (I would advise the students to refresh the questions initially).
See https://goo.gl/dDno4h test out a free version of finding the circumference.
Differentiated quiz on the following:
-Work out the volume of a cylinder
-Work out the radius/diameter from the volume
-Work out the surface area of a cylinder
Features:
-Hint button that shows/hides a hint
-Press a button and it will self mark and give a score out of 10
-Refresh the questions so you get any entirely new set of questions (basically unlimited questions!)
-Print the page
You will need to enable Macros for this to work (there should be a yellow bar that pops up when you open a file that you can enable macros from)
See here if you need any additional help with this:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Enable-or-disable-macros-in-Office-files-12b036fd-d140-4e74-b45e-16fed1a7e5c6
Powerpoint lesson for finding missing angles with all resources included. Resources include a work booklet, assessment for learning activities, starter and plenary. Skills covered include – finding angles in quadrilaterals and special quadrilaterals, finding multiple angles using angle facts including straight lines and at a point and forming and solving equations using knowledge of angle facts.
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing and maybe some cutting!). Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue: Find a missing angle in quadrilaterals and special quadrilaterals
Gold: Solve harder problems using properties of angles
Red: Form and solve equations using knowledge of angle facts
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
•Answers on the powerpoint
• A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections and help boxes
• A problem solving activity where students have to find 4 angles that add up to 360 (2 different versions)
•A card sort starter for properties of special quadrilaterals.
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach right away. The lessons use the following format:
•Starter
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• Assessment for learning activities
• Answers to all the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)
The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grades, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade.
This will take up a whole lesson.
This lesson would be appropriate to use as part of the Pearson Edexcel Foundation textbook unit 6, find more resources for that here.
This is the second lesson in the series and follows on from this lesson which you can find here.
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