Practice at finding the missing side of a right angled triangle. Macro's must be enabled for this to work

solving linear equations

Students are challenged to design a fruit drink, specifying the fruits and keeping the cost down. This is a very involved lesson/activity, best suited as an independent project.

Play battleships with your class, two grids; 0 to 10 and -5 to +5. Game can be played with the whole class using both grids simultaneously.

This excel resource generates worksheets to practice all on any one of the four number operations with the ability to differentiate them. Make sure your default printer is connected and switched on before attempting to print. This is great to improve students mental calculations. If you wish to do a print preview use the Ctrl-Page-up Ctrl-Page-down keys to switch between excel pages.

Quick 10 question starter based on the four basic operations. Be sure to enable Macros in order for this activity to function properly.

Powerpoint slide with pictures of various 3D shapes, allowing the students to attempt to guess the names of the shapes.

Use to play connect 4 with your class, ask them questions to assess their learning and allow them to select a counter if they get an answer correct

Proforma for playing block-busters (you can change the letters to suit your questions)

Lesson on plotting and describing linear functions. Game at the end to try and score goals using and describing linear functions. All printouts included at the end of the powerpoint.

A range of self explanatory activities to settle your classes and ensure some basic core skills are regularly practised. These are ideal for mini-whiteboards.

Find the area and volume and then working back from area/volume to find a measurement. Caution, be aware that some of these calculations have been rounded.

Interactive Suko puzzle; you can print out blank handouts for students to use in solving the puzzle.

Excel spreadsheet. Run as a competition, first pupil/group to get the right answer. I have rounded the answers to make it a little more manageable to compare pupils' answers.

Pythagoras on a graph, differentiated across two levels

A quiz for two teams with twenty questions. It can easily be modified to suit your own class or subject.

Pupils need to work out the missing signs or if and where brackets are needed. Automatically generates new questions and gives you answers!

Show the multiples of a number in a 100 square. Modified May-2011 to allow you to show the multiples of two number s in a 100 square. Second file added May-2011 to allow you to show the multiples of three numbers in a 100 square. (this only works with Excel 2007)

You take on the role of Alan Sugar in challenging a maximum of ten groups to decide on a range of tariffs and logos for two customer groups. Extra customers (and therefore profit) can be gained through good marketing as well as competitive pricing. As always, the group making the most profit wins! Only edit the yellow cells on the spreadsheet, if you do not have ten companies enter zero for the unused companies. Awarding 1st, 2nd and 3rd place respectively to companies designing the most appealing and appropriate company image will automatically give them extra customers.

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