I taught in a range of schools for many years before moving into FE, where I found creative and imaginative approaches just as rewarding with adults. Most of my resources are concerned with giving control to the learner, through a range of methods. Some are great for just giving them experience of examination questions, and the chance to discuss these with other learners. I now concentrate on spreading the range of creations from UK KS1 to KS4, and across the Common Standards.
I taught in a range of schools for many years before moving into FE, where I found creative and imaginative approaches just as rewarding with adults. Most of my resources are concerned with giving control to the learner, through a range of methods. Some are great for just giving them experience of examination questions, and the chance to discuss these with other learners. I now concentrate on spreading the range of creations from UK KS1 to KS4, and across the Common Standards.
Fifteen word searches in a variety of forms - doc, pdf, and as a slideshow in PowerPoint. I've included a guide on how I intend to use them, but they are easily adaptable for a variety of purposes. Solutions included but I don&'t think the point is to find all of them.
I've made blank grids and some with some bits already shaded - complete for reflective symmetry and rotational symmetry, and make up some of your own.
Good for fun and display, and hopefully learning.
All in Word, so feel free to edit.
Ten illustrated muliple-choice questions on congruence, similarity and enlargement, with answers. Always good in the classroom as a refresher from the previous lesson or as a quick plenary.\nPlus a version for the learners to complete on their own, thanks to HBeath who revised it for individual use.
Two activities - use code to do calculations, and match symbols to definitions and meanings. Simple activities to reinforce connection between image and function.
I teach 16 plus learners in a thirty or so week programme for GCSE - some retake and some new learners. What I have done here is put the Edexcel Linear A new scheme into the weekly slots, and devided all the criteria/spec statements into Aims and Objectives. I wouldn't expect anyone to follow the same order, or keep my jokes, but please copy slides as you want. \nInspectors love to see the aims pasted up, so I use PowerPoint.
Five exercises embracing Pythagoras theorem and sine, cosine and tangent as applied to right-angled triangles. Multiple choice quizzes for recap, revision or homework, in Word and PDF. All mistakes are mine, and please report to me if you find any!
Sarah needed a simple activity to remind her functional skills learners of the names of plane and solid shapes, so I quickly made this.
The plan is to show the name and the properties, and the learners sketch the shape.
Unfortunately I couldn't get the animation to work, so I've built up the slides to show possible results.
You can easily remove the properties - change as you like.
I've lots more stuff on TES on plane and solid shapes, if you look at my shop.
Plus the net of a box. The plan is to get the learners to adapt this to make a box to hold four cup-cakes.
And an activity of making a box to hold cup-cakes.
Enjoy.
The National Curriculum in maths for Years 3 to 6 in Word documents. Full specifications, plus all attainment targets in tables.
Seventeen different files for flexible planning of Years 3 - 6 maths National Curriculum. All in Word for ease of editing.
Statutory requirements, both as list and a table for recording progress etc.
Notes and non-statutory guidance to keep as an appendix.
Full specs as one long continuous document, again, in Word for cutting and pasting where needed.
Full set of resources to cover types of number for mathematics national curriculum in Year 5. Great for preparation for SATs in Year 6, or revision at KS3.
Four clear PowerPoints with lots of questions and exercises, all with answers.
Specifications:
‘Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers.’
I’ve tried the files myself on a different computer, and had to adjust the size of text on four or five slides, but very easy to do. And because not all systems work the same I’ve included a PDF of each of the presentations - even easier to show and will always be as intended.
Specs Year 4'Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value.'
Year 5 'Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals.'
Thirty slides on an animated PowerPoint to introduce recognition of Roman numerals, and explore the advantage of Arabic numerals.
Plus lots of activities/worksheets, including Emperors' reigns, Roman roads, Olympiads, Children's TV (years), and answers.
All great fun, and could be cross-curricular.
Maths KS3 or KS4 revision. Trigonometric ratios, moving from tan to sine and cosine.
Everything you need for a full lesson or two to develop trigonometry from the tangent ratio to sine and cosine.
Let the learners tackle the activities, or guide them through with PowerPoint presentations.
Presentations, worksheets, activities and solutions.
Please leave comments, suggestions or corrections.
KS2 Maths - Year 3 Equivalent Fractions:
Year 3 equivalent fractions.
recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
Colourful powerpoint for sharing with a whole class, or for printing slides for cutting out and matching the shapes. You can buy them but they cost £25 a set of magnetic ones!
Lots of questions to match shapes to fraction concepts, and activities for the learners to do, including writing fraction chains and colouring in a fractions wall. Great for revision in later years.
Fractions addition and subtraction with different denominators. KS2 Year 6, but great for revision in KS3, and essential for foundation GCSE, and not a few higher candidates would benefit too.
Warm up worksheet that asks the learners to find common multiples and common factors, through word questions.
Colourful presentation covering the definitions of a fraction, and why the numerator has to be the same. One example, and then a small selection for the learners to find the lowest common denominator.
Finally a worksheet for the learners to try out, or revise, these new skills.
Does not include addition of mixed numbers - all simple results less than one.
All worksheets in Word and PDF, and all answers included! The presentation has been updated to include an older version of PowerPoint, a revised v2 which might fit better, and a PDF version which will work on any system.
Year 6 specs say:
‘use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination
add and subtract fractions with different denominators’
Key Stage 3 mathematics specs:
Standard Form KS3
• interpret and compare numbers in standard form A×10n, 1≤A
Two sides of data, for positive and negative indices, of science data to change between ordinary numbers and standard form.
Great for revision for GCSE classes.
Answers included!
‘Work interchangeably with terminating decimals and their corresponding fractions (such as 3.5 and 7/2 or 0.375 or 3/8); change repeating decimals into their corresponding fractions and vice versa.’
A simple investigation into which fractions terminate and which recur, on PowerPoint and in Word, with a big set of results in PowerPoint to encourage class discussion.
A PowerPoint presentation of the method, with some examples to do as a class or individually, plus a worksheet of fourteen questions, with answers. A clear and fully supported lesson.
Grade 4 Presentation warm up, two more sequences sets on PowerPoint, and two worksheets, the second quite challenging. Plus a ‘sticks and dots’ pattern set with lots of pictures.
'5. Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself. For example, given the rule “Add 3” and the starting number 1, generate terms in the resulting sequence and observe that the terms appear to alternate between odd and even numbers. Explain informally why the numbers will continue to alternate in this way.'
